Tragically, your favorite fashion icon and mine perished at age 71 yesterday after battling an unknown illness. According to his New York Times obituary, "Every man needs aesthetic phantoms in order to exist," Mr. Saint Laurent said at the announcement of his retirement. "I have known fear and the terrors of solitude. I have known those fair-weather friends we call tranquilizers and drugs. I have known the prison of depression and the confinement of hospital. But one day, I was able to come through all of that, dazzled yet sober." I will be pouring out some Touche Eclat in his honor...so sad.