This designer, hailed as the man who brought pants to women, died in 2008
[DOC] [TLE] Saint Laurent: The man who put a swagger in women's steps [PAR] Posted June 7, 2008 11:30 pm - Updated June 8, 2008 08:07 am ... Often, when 
a fashion designer dies and his life's work is assessed, some insistent hyperbole 
is ... he brought popular culture, a mannish swagger, sexual power and ethnic ... 
notion of women in trousers, it was Saint Laurent who sold the public on the idea.