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Atlanta businessman bankrolled Yves Saint Laurent
By BILL independent clothes The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: emo clothing In 1963, rumors in the French fashion world said Yves Saint Laurent's
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"Sacrebleu!" said Time magazine, calling Atlanta businessman J. Mack
Robinson "a reserved and soft-spoken fellow."
"I am completely ignorant of fashion," the then 39-year-old Robinson
told the magazine. "But now I am having to learn something about it."
Today, Robinson is 85 and a local icon of commerce for whom Georgia
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in his Buckhead office, overseeing a network that includes banking,
insurance and media holdings.
The French fashion icon, who died Sunday, became lifelong friends with
Robinson, even designing his daughter's wedding dress. "Yves was a
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looking for investments in Europe when he came across Saint Laurent, a
"boy wonder" who had headed Christian Dior's company and was branching
out on his own.
The two kept their arrangement quiet, and the brand took off. "I was
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By 1965, Robinson, tired of constant travel to France and incessant
publicity, sold out for $1 million, according to reports. In 1999,
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In 2002, Robinson, called a billionaire by Fortune magazine, said of
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