Pierre Berg
Pierre Berge is a contractor in making luxury and a patron French , born 14 November 1930 to the Head, on the island of Oleron. Companion of Yves Saint Laurent , he helped found the couture house of the same name, in 1974 he was elected president of the Chambre Syndicale fashion designers and fashion designers. From 1977 to 1981, he directed the Thtre de l'Athne then presiding at the Opera Bastille from 1988 to 1993, when he was named goodwill ambassador of UNESCO. "
He supported the candidacy of Sgolne Royal in the French presidential election of 2007. The cause of militant homosexual and the fight against AIDS , he co-founded the association Sidaction where he is now president. He also owns the magazine Tetu. In 2010, he proposed to buy the newspaper Le Monde in conjunction with Niel and Matthew Pigasse against the takeover bid proposed by the Group Perdriel society and Orange. In 2010, Peter Berger, has a fortune estimated at 100 million.
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Pierre Berge was born in the Head, hamlet in the commune of Saint-Pierre d'Oleron. His mother, Christiane, is soprano amateur teacher, devotee of the method Montessori. His father is a staff contributions. He obtained his BA in School Eugene Fromentin in La Rochelle.
Graduation, he moved to Paris. The day of his arrival in 1948 , when he walks down the Champs-Elysees, the poet Jacques Prevert fall before him from the window of a building Route At age 19, tried by conscientious objection and kneaded reading libertarian , he founded the newspaper world with Homeland Garry Davis , the founder of " World Citizens ". Only two numbers appear. From 1949 , he comes to encounter regularly Aragon , Jouhandeau , Camus , Jean-Paul Sartre and Breton , without forgetting the painter Bernard Buffet , where he became the lover, managing her career for eight years until marriage with the painter Annabel. In 1958 , he met Yves Saint Laurent with whom he maintains a relationship . He began managing the career of the young man six years her junior, while designer at Dior , whose first collection, "Trapeze," has a strong influence in the world of fashion. Yves Saint Laurent will shortly Dior, sursitaire he is called up. Upon his return, Marc Bohan took place in the fashion house. Pierre Berge convinced him to open his own couture house. He found in J. Mack Robinson , in Atlanta ( Georgia ), the person providing the funds necessary for the creation of the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent , Pierre Berge which has been the architect. From 1962 he is working to recover, dollar after dollar (following the agreed to found the First National City Bank ), the claw Saint Laurent sold by financial necessity abroad. In 1966 , he invented Saint Laurent Rive Gauche , the ready to wear brand, according to the formula models designed by the creator, made by a manufacturer outside and distributed in a network of franchised stores. Behind the scenes collections, models tremble, led an iron hand by the head of the left who boasts of having avoided unions, works council and strikes, but distributes annually, as a bonus, a windfall. The Yves Saint Laurent scrolls happy to Festival of Humanity. Outside, he also has the grudge with journalists and judicial meddling, particularly for infringement (Case Jacques Esterel in 1979 ...). He was elected in 1974 president of the Chambre Syndicale fashion designers and fashion designers. After 1981 , it promotes the financing of operations relating to arts and letters during the seven years of Franois Mitterrand. In 2001, he founded in Paris, Rue Drouot , a company voluntary sale, the house Pierre Berge and Associates, which also has an office in Geneva and Brussels on the Place du Grand Sablon. He signed a Civil Solidarity Pact (PACS) with Yves Saint Laurent, the latter's home, shortly before the death of fashion designer, he also became the legal heir . It launches early 1987 the magazine Globe , which supports the candidacy of Franois Mitterrand in 1988. In 1993 he helped launch the magazine Globe Hebdo. In 1988, Pierre Berg became president of the Opera Bastille. The cause of militant homosexual , he supported the association fighting against AIDS, Act Up-Paris and owns the magazine Tetu. He was also a shareholder of Pink TV , before retiring. In 1994, he participated with Line Renaud in the creation of an association fighting against AIDS Sidaction , where he became president in 1996, a position he still holds today. Sidaction is one of the leading organizations fighting against AIDS in Europe. Present since 1980 in the fight against AIDS (Pierre Berge was president of Arcot AIDS in the 1980s), he shows a deep commitment to this fight. In 2000 he became CEO of the luxury Parisian brasserie "Plum", specializing in caviar French. In the early 2000s, he created the auction house to auction Pierre Berge and Associates. Since 2004 he is Chairman of Pierre Mac Orlan, and as such is the exclusive holder of moral rights of Pierre Mac Orlan and thus delivers the operating licenses of Mac Orlan's work . On 21 November 2009, he claims to be suffering from myopathy and critical telethon during a radio show on France Inter . On February 11, 2010, the AFM, the association has organized more than 20 years the telethon has decided to sue for defamation against Pierre Berge as a result of numerous attacks made by the businessman . In June 2010 , he teamed up with Niel and Matthew Pigasse to take a majority stake in the group La Vie-Le Monde (Le Monde, Courrier International, Telerama ...). In September 2010 it passed a capital increase and the loss of control of the group by its employee shareholders and internal (ie including journalists). On 15 December 2010, he became president and chairman of the supervisory board World SA and SEM Political Support In 1988, he participated in all the campaign rallies of Franois Mitterrand (unlike 1981). In 2001 and 2008, municipal elections, it officially supports the Parisian left, led by Bertrand Delano (PS). It supports Segolene Royal for the 2007 presidential and was present at Villepinte during the presentation of her "presidential pact", February 11, 2007. His support is financial: it supports the rent of the headquarters of the former candidate in the presidential election (an apartment of 150 m 2 boulevard Raspail in the 6th arrondissement of Paris) . Pierre Berg has created the Association of Friends of Segolene Royal in February 2008 allowing it to occupy for a nominal sum of premises in the heart of the 6th Borough In 2009, he argues Vincent Peillon and its current Hope left and gathering social, ecological and democratic , according to Le Figaro . Pierre Berge is also chairman of the Board of the Association of Friends of the Institute Francois Mitterrand. Pierre Berg had with Yves Saint-Laurent a mansion streets of Babylon in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, the Chteau Gabriel in Deauville sold in 2007, and the Villa Majorelle Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech and many works of art ( Goya , Braque , Cezanne , Matisse and James Ensor , among others). Between 1977 and 1981 , Pierre Berg directs the Athenaeum Theatre. Drops in the attic of the Athenaeum a small room named after Christian Berard theater devoted principally to test. In 1982 , he sold the theater to the state for one symbolic franc. He was named Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO "in 1993 . It also funds the foundation of Danielle Mitterrand , Arcat-Aids , SOS Racisme , the founding of the University of Avignon and Pays de Vaucluse , the Fondation Pierre Berge Yves Saint Laurent and Sgolne Royal . Following the death of Yves Saint Laurent on June 1, 2008, Pierre Berge decided to sell the extensive art collection assembled by Yves Saint Laurent and himself. The auction, dubbed the "Sale of the Century" by the media, took place from 23 to 25 February 2009 and reported 373.5 million euros the benefit of the Fondation Pierre Berg - Yves Saint Laurent. China has asked in vain for the return of two bronze animal heads (a rat and a rabbit) stolen by French soldiers during the fire of the former summer palace of the emperors of China in Beijing during the Second Opium War in 1860 , the businessman said: "I am prepared to offer these bronze heads to the Chinese government immediately. They just say they will enforce human rights, freedom to Tibetans and to accept the Dalai Lama on their territory. " Pierre Berg: Candidate for the French Academy to take the chair of Bertrand Poirot-Delpech , Pierre Berg was defeated in the election on May 22, 2008. 
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