The first Chinese-born designer was admitted Thursday into Paris's elite coterie of haute couture creators. Yiqing Yin, who recently quit as artistic director of Leonard to concentrate on her own label, is also one of the youngest, at 30. Haute couture exists only in Paris and is sustained by a small number of the world's richest women.
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Yiqing Yin becomes first Chinese-born haute couture designer
