German fashion guru is found dead
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A flamboyant German fashion designer is found dead at his Munich villa in suspicious circumstances.
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Former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith is found dead in Florida at the age of 39, her lawyer says.
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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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American fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, whose simple designs made him a department store favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his Manhattan home.
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A 25-year-old Iraqi man has confessed to murdering a German fashion designer famed as much for his eccentric wig and pet dog Daisy as his creations, police said Sunday.
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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 his home. He was 77.
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Johnny Grant, Hollywood's honorary mayor, was found dead Wednesday night, Los Angeles police said. Grant, 84, appeared to have died of natural causes.
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Fashion designer Liz Claiborne died Tuesday, the company she founded said Wednesday. She was 78.
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The German aristocrat Count Gottfried von Bismarck, great-great-grandson of the Iron Chancellor, was found dead yesterday.
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The founder of The Body Shop, which grew from one shop in southern England to an international chain, has died, the chairman of Body Shop International confirmed Monday.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president whose reputation was tarnished by disclosures he had hidden his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
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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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Count Gottfried von Bismarck, whose life of privileged excess as a descendant of Germany's "Iron Chancellor" was clouded by two deaths at his decadent parties, has died at the age of 44.
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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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Natascha Kampusch bade farewell to the   remains of the man who held her in a small cell for eight   years, before his mother buried him under a false name on   Friday, Austrian police said.
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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president who became tainted by revelations that he hid his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.