• Recent Obituaries - Fashion



  • Nancy Talbot (1920 - 2009)

    Nancy   Talbot

    BOULDER, Colo. - The co-founder of the upscale Talbots women's clothing company has died from complications of Alzheimer's disease. Nancy Talbot was 89. The Talbots Inc. said that Talbot died Sunday in Boulder, where she lived near one of her daughters. Talbot and her husband Rudolf opened their first store in Hingham, Mass., in 1947 and launched their mail-order business...

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  • Naomi Sims, 61 (1948 - 2009)

    Naomi  Sims

    Naomi Sims, among first black models, dies at 61 NEW YORK — Naomi Sims, whose 1968 Ladies' Home Journal cover shot was a breakthrough for black fashion models, has died. She was 61. Sims, said by some to be the first black supermodel, died Saturday of cancer in Newark, N.J., her son Bob Findlay told The New York Times. It had been decades since she left the runway to become an author...

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  • Guy Mascolo (2009)

    Guy  Mascolo

    DALLAS , Texas - Guy Mascolo, co-founder of the international hair salon Toni & Guy, died Wednesday. He was 65. Mascolo suffered a fatal heart attack and died at his Dallas home, his family said. Guy Mascolo founded the renowned hairdressing company with his brother, Toni Mascolo, in London in 1963 when they were both teens. With skills learned from their hairdresser father, they...

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  • Charles "Mask" Lewis, Jr. (2009)

    Charles "Mask" Lewis, Jr.

    NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Mixed martial arts figure "Mask," who co-founded the TapouT clothing line, was killed early Wednesday when a $300,000 Ferrari crashed and was torn in half. The driver of another car was arrested for investigation of manslaughter. TapouT announced the death of Charles "Mask" Lewis Jr. in a statement and said a memorial service was being planned. However, the Orange...

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  • Ted Lapidus (2008)

    Ted  Lapidus

    PARIS - Ted Lapidus, the fashion designer who redefined chic with the 1960s unisex look, died Monday. He was 79. President Nicolas Sarkozy, in an homage to the designer, said Lapidus "democratized French elegance and classicism" and "made fashion accessible to men and women in the street." An assistant of Rose Torrente-Mett, Lapidus' sister, said the designer died Monday in a hospital in...

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