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Berge, the longtime partner of the late designer Yves Saint Laurent, died in his sleep at his country home at Saint-Remy-de-Provence in southern France, his foundation said. It added that Berge would be cremated on Tuesday in a private ceremony, and a &#8220;public commemoration in his honour&#8221; would be held at a later date.  The couple &#8212; Berge the hard-headed foil to Saint Laurent&#8217;s mercurial genius &#8212; turned the fashion world on its head when they set up their own label in 1961 after the fragile designer had fallen foul of Dior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French fashion tycoon Pierre Berge, the business brains behind the Yves Saint Laurent empire, a major philanthropist and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>French fashion tycoon and art collector Pierre Berge dies aged 86 in southern France - 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