I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.
Source: In Ritz, no. 85 (London), 1984.
-- Yves Saint Laurent, (Aug 1 1936-2008), French fashion designer; He is noted, among other things, for his popularization of women's trousers for all occasions.