After licking my lips for more than a month, I finally made it to the first retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent, held, a little surprisingly, at Le Petit Palais. Why not the Musée de la Mode et du Textile at the Louvre, which has exhibited such couturier luminaries as Paul Poiret, Madeleine Vionnet, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Christian Dior? "Simply because it's Saint Laurent," says Gilles Chazal the Director of the Petit Palais. To translate, this means that Saint Laurent's elegant and astute business and life partner Pierre Bergé has worked his magic again. Saint Laurent's talent was beautifully guided and globally framed by Pierre Bergé during Saint Laurent's life, and now after his death. Bergé heads a figurative Blue Book of French celebrities that keep the Saint Laurent flame burning--as it should.