Fashion Designer Geoffrey Beene Dies at 77
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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 77.
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Portrait and fashion photographer Richard Avedon died on Friday morning at age 81, a spokeswoman for the family said.
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The Body Shop founder has died tonight after suffering a major brain haemorrhage.
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After 45 years as a leading designer, Valentino said 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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The legendary Russian prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova has died aged 66 after a long illness, the Bolshoi theatre where she made a brilliant career during the Soviet era announced on Tuesday.
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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, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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Geoffrey Beene, the fashion designer whose classic, form-flattering designs shaped women&#39;s wardrobes for the past four decades, died Sept.
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Gerard Debreu, a former University of California-Berkeley economist who won a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in the study of supply and demand, has died at the age of 83.
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Italian designer Valentino, 75, announced his retirement on Tuesday, saying it was time to bid &quot;farewell&quot; to the world of fashion.
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For nearly all his 91 years, fashion designer Oleg Cassini has been on the move.
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first US astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first U.S. astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83, NASA said on Sunday.
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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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Former Gucci designer Alessandra  Facchinetti will succeed Valentino Garavani as creative  director for womenswear collections when he retires from the  couture house he founded, Valentino Fashion Group said on  Wednesday.
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES  - Apparel designer Liz Claiborne, who founded a namesake sportswear label for women that grew into a multibillion dollar global empire, has died at age 78, the company said on Wednesday.
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A line of children looking like angels  ended Gianfranco Ferre&#39;s menswear show on Sunday to a standing  ovation, just a week after the Italian designer died at the age  of 62 after a brain haemorrhage.
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Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre dies, aged 62, after suffering a brain haemorrhage.