French writer and fashion critic Janie Samet, who was the first to interview a young Yves Saint Laurent, died at her home in Cannes at age 91, her family confirmed.
Born on April 21, 1931, in Paris, Samet made her journalistic debut as an intern for L’Echo d’Oran, a French daily newspaper in Oran, Algeria, then under French colonial rule.
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