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Richard Blackwell, 86 (1922 - 2008)
LOS ANGELES -- Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86. Blackwell died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from an intestinal infection, publicist Harlan Boll said. Blackwell, whose first name was Richard, was a little-known dress...
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Eletra Casadei (2008)
Los Angeles - Fashion designer Eletra Casadei, whose collections were carried in boutiques and departments stores across the nation and were seen on TV shows such as "Golden Girls" and "Dynasty," has died. She was 55. Casadei died Sept. 27 of brain cancer at her home in Pacific Palisades, her sister Andrea Casadei Best said. Born in 1953, Casadei graduated from Loyola Marymount...
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Mila Schoen (2008)
ROME -- Mila Schoen, an Italian designer of elegant, impeccably tailored clothes, died early Friday at her villa in northern Italy at the age of 91. Her fashion house in Milan said Schoen died in her sleep at her country home near Alessandria. Schoen began her career in 1958 working in an high-fashion atelier in Milan. Eight years later she opened her own boutique, on Milan's Via...
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Thomas Bata, 94 (1914 - 2008)
Thomas Bata, the Czech-born head of the worldwide family shoe empire that bears his name, died Monday in Canada, an official said. He was 93. Bata died on Monday in a hospital in Toronto, said Pavel Velev, who heads the Thomas Bata Foundation based in the Bata family's former villa in the eastern Czech town of Zlin. He did not give the cause of death. "One of the greatest personalities...
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Yves St. Laurent, 71 (1936 - 2008)
Yves Saint Laurent -- one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, famous for putting ladies in pants to make them freer but no less feminine -- will be remembered for empowering women through his fashion. Saint Laurent, 71, died Sunday night at his Paris home after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, said Pierre Berge, his close friend and business partner for...
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Liz Claiborne, 78 (1929 - 2007)
Fashion designer Liz Claiborne, whose styles became a cornerstone of career women's wardrobes in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, the company she founded said Wednesday. She was 78. The cause of...
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Gianfranco Ferre, 62 (1944 - 2007)
Gianfranco Ferre, the Italian designer known as the "architect of fashion" for his structured, sculpted shapes and for his groundbreaking tenure at Christian Dior, died Sunday, a hospital said. He...
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Oleg Cassini, 92 (1913 - 2006)
The magic of Camelot may have had something to do with Oleg Cassini, the designer who created Jacqueline Kennedy's graceful, elegant look. Cassini died Friday at age 92 in a Long Island...
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Bill Blass, 79 (1922 - 2002)
Bill Blass, the fashion designer whose signature designs broke fashion molds and set standards for casual American style, died Wednesday. He was 79. Blass died at his home in Washington,...
