American Decades
Deaths
Cristobal Banenciaga, 77, Spanish designer whose revolutionary designs in the 1950s and 1960s created a new, more relaxed look in women's clothing, 24 March 1972.
Marie-Louis Valentin Bousquet, 88, Paris editor of Harper's Bazaar for fifty years, 15 October 1975.
John Ely Burchard, 77, educator, architectural historian, and dean emeritus of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 25 December 1975.
Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 88, French designer of comfortable, fashionable women's clothes, 10 January 1971.
John Donnelly, 67, architectural sculptor who designed the facades of the New York Public Library and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., 27 April 1970.
Charles Eames, 71, American architect and designer of formfitting chairs, 21 August 1978.
Norman Hartnell, 78, dressmaker to Queen...
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1970's Fashion
