Fashion Designer Geoffrey Beene Dies at 77
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NEW YORK - Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at 77.    Beene died at his home of complications of pneumonia, according to Russell Nardozza, vice president of Geoffrey Beene Inc...
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, has died in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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The funeral for Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre, who died this weekend at the age of 62, will be held Tuesday in Legnano, the northern Italian town where he was born, his fashion house said Monday.
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Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre  died at Milan&#39;s San Raffaele hospital on Sunday after suffering  a brain hemorrhage, the hospital said in a statement.
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MILAN (Reuters Life!) - Gianfranco Ferre has launched a foundation to look after and put on show the fashion collections and other work of its founder, who died in June.
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South African playwright Gibson Kente, who announced last year he was HIV positive, dies aged 72.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.
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After 45 years as a leading designer, Valentino says goodbye to the fashion world with a haute couture fashion show in Paris. Givenchy and Jean Paul Gaultier also presented their couture shows.
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Top French coiffeur Alexandre de Paris, who styled the hair of Elizabeth Taylor and many other stars, dies at 85.
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The Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre, whose training as an architect had a crucial influence on his approach to fashion, died Sunday in a Milan hospital after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage. He was 62.
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Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, who used her international cosmetics chain to promote eco-friendly practices long before they were widely fashionable, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.
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Jacques Martin, the French television personality once married to now-first lady Cecilia Sarkozy, died Friday. He was 74.
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Fashion house Liz Claiborne Inc. says founder Liz Claiborne, whose styles became an important influence for career women in the 1970s and 1980s, died Tuesday.
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One of Portugal's top fashion designers unveiled a summer 2005 collection inspired by flamboyant rock superstar Freddie Mercury who died of AIDS in 1991.
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Richard Avedon, who turned fashion  and portrait photography into art forms and captured  unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous  figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker  magazine said.
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Italian designer Valentino, whose signature flaming red couture gowns have graced royalty, Hollywood stars and the international jet set for 45 years, announced Tuesday he was stepping down as head designer of the Valentino fashion house.  In a state...