By Rachid Aouli
Associated Press, Paris
Model-turned-first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, actress Catherine Deneuve and the Shah of Iran's widow were among mourners Thursday at the funeral of legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent.
Applause rose among the arriving guests as Saint Laurent's casket was carried into the flower bedecked Saint-Roche church near the Louvre Museum and Tuileries Gardens and placed before the altar, draped in a decorated yellow cloth.
Saint Laurent was among the most influential designers during the most important era of Parisian fashion, changing the way generations of women dressed, most enduringly by making it glamorous and feminine to wear pants.
Stars, couturiers and dignitaries including President French Nicolas Sarkozy, accompanied by his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who once modeled for Saint Laurent, filled the church in a final homage to the designer four days after he died of cancer at 71.
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