Liz Claiborne, Designer of Womenâs Clothes, Dies at 78
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She defied the male-dominated ranks of the fashion industry and started her own hugely successful company.
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Fashion is supposed to reflect the times. But instead of reflecting a complex, divisive period in American history at Fashion Week, American fashion was at the beach.
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U.S. apparel company Liz Claiborne  Inc.  is seeking to divest itself of 16 of its 36  apparel brands, representing $800 million of its $5 billion in  annual revenue, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on  Wednesday.
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One of the must-have accessories at New York Fashion Week is a famous spouse.
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Apparel designer Liz Claiborne, who founded a namesake women's sportswear label that grew into a multibillion dollar global empire, has died at age 78, the company said on Wednesday.
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Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" and Bernice on "Designing Women," has died. She was 81.
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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 was 62.
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TURLOCK, Calif. -- Linda Collins Maurer, a pro golfer who became the first person to wear a &quot;Medic Alert&quot; bracelet after her parents created the chains, has died.
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Madeleine Castaing, the Paris interior designer, died in 1992, but her influence continues: she is currently the subject of a film, a biography and an art show.
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Life & style: Murdered founder's niece to make Paris debut as the London-trained designer continues brand's revival.
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LOS ANGELES  - Costume designer Catherine Marie Thomas has fashioned a career out of creating memorable styles for films, from fitting Uma Thurman in her yellow leather biker outfit for "Kill Bill-Vol. 1" to creating shiny, lacy country get-ups for Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep in "A Prairie Home Companion."
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily January 4, 2004 - NEW YORK - Monique Lhuillier has grabbed a powerful stance in the fashion world in just eight years. Designer Lhuillier and husband Tom Bugbee created an upscale bridal company in Los Angeles in 1996. They introduced their ready-to-wear collection in 2001. Her designs have been critically hailed, her creations have graced style mags and been worn by famous brides around the world.
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Talbots Inc. yesterday tapped Liz Claiborne president Trudy F. Sullivan , a Wellesley native who began her retail career at Jordan Marsh in Boston, to be chief executive of the Hingham merchant to help turn around the beleaguered brand.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily September 21, 2004- LONDON - Click, click click! Linda Evangelista stalks the runway in a dramatically billowing caped silk kaftan dress emblazoned with outsized photo-printed golden lions and accessorized with matching super-elevated platform sandals. Next up an ethereal Karen Elson, in a dazzling three-tier biscuit chiffon evening dress hung at each level with dozens of sparkling teardrop Swarovski crystals, glides into view. Then Guinevere, Karolina K, Missy, Eugenia and Maria-Carla swank down in curvaceously tailored, stunningly detailed and extremely sexy clothes inspired by a 19th Century anthropologist called Pitt Rivers and 1940&#8217;s screen sirens. These are clothes fit for Hollywood&#8217;s finest. What&#8217;s going on? This can&#8217;t be London? Aha, but it is. Welcome to the world of Giles Deacon, the 34 year old ex Gucci and Bottega Veneta designer, who, with only one solo show under his belt can pick up the phone to the legendary Linda E and request her presence.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - Entertainer Reba McEntire will design a line of women's clothing for Little Rock-based Dillard's Inc.
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Clothing maker and retailer Liz  Claiborne Inc. on Thursday posted a 14 percent increase in  third-quarter earnings, helped by its acquisition of ENYCE and  solid sales of brands such as Juicy Couture.
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Corporate ownership is changing the face of haute couture.