Fashion designer Liz Claiborne died Tuesday

• Author: kissfendi
• Filed under: Entertainment, Famous, Fashion
• Date: Jun 27,2007

Last week I had three or four blog entries about the Mr. Ferre who died recently and after a week of Gianfranco Ferre’s death another noted fashion icon died this week. Fashion designer Liz Claiborne died Tuesday and the cause of death is not known yet.

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.

Claiborne died Tuesday at the New York Presbyterian Hospital after suffering from cancer for a number of years, said Gwen Satterfield, personal assistant to Claiborne.

Claiborne founded Liz Claiborne Inc. in 1976 along with her husband Art Ortenberg and Leonard Boxer. Their goal was to create a collection of fashions aimed at the growing number of women entering the work force.

The new approach to dressing revolutionized the department store industry, which had only focused on stocking pants in one department and skirts in another.

It’s too sad to hear actually to lose one of our noted fashion designers who contributed a lot to our fashion world.
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