Geoffrey Beene, Innovator of American Fashion, Dies at 77
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Geoffrey Beene was a single-minded innovator who put fashion above commerce yet succeeded in making a business from originality.
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The 1970s hit the catwalk at New York Fashion Week in not only style but price, with budget shoe brand Payless ShoeSource providing footwear valued at less than $45 a pair for three designer shows.
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American fashion designer Geoffrey Beene, whose simple fashions made him a department store favorite for decades, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at the age of 77.
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Richard Avedon's fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style and beauty for the last half-century.
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The 1970s hit the catwalk at New York  Fashion Week in not only style but price, with budget shoe  brand Payless ShoeSource providing footwear valued at less than  $45 a pair for three designer shows.
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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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The French mail order catalogue La Redoute unveiled a collection of clothing and accessories designed by Jean Paul Gaultier who stamped his unique touch to the pleated miniskirts or white trousers included.
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Costume designer Bill Belew, who created Elvis Presley's jumpsuits and the tight black leather outfit he wore on his 1968 television special, has died. He was 76.
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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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The man who created 'haute coiffure', elevating hairdressing among the elite of the fashion world, has died aged 85, his family announced Saturday in Le Figaro's society pages.
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By MICHAEL KUCHWARA  NEW YORK - Broadway costume designer Alvin Colt - at age 90 - is being celebrated by the Museum of the City of New York.
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Richard Avedon's fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century.
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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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Before he died last September, Geoffrey Beene named his assistant, Einar Holilokk, as his successor. Mr. Holilokk will present his first solo collection in New York next week.
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HOUSTON -- Maxime A. Faget, a pioneering NASA engineer who designed the original spacecraft for Project Mercury and whose work helped create every human spacecraft the agency has launched since, has died.
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Designers who stuck close to their patriotic toots have produced some standout collections
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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.