After a month of being missing, the body of Katoucha Naine was found in the Reine river on February the 29th. The first internationally known African super model, Katoucha paved the way for models of African descent. Known as the Peul Princess she was both a face of the Yves Saint Lauren brand and muse to the designer himself. Later she quit modeling to become an activist amd wrote a book describing her childhood trauma to spread awareness.

“He loved her enormously,” said Dominique Deroche, head of PR at the fashion house. “She was exactly like an Yves Saint-Laurent drawing, a proud head on a long neck, very slim but with strong shoulders, made for haute couture. She looked magnificent on the catwalk and often wore very powerful outfits like a Cubist navy-blue dress with doves around the neckline.”

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