The following people from the worlds of fashion, retail, beauty, media and society died this year.
Ann Albrizio
Sir Bernard Ashley
Dick Baker
Kurt Barnard
Joseph “Jo” Behar
Ernest Benesch
Harry Bernard
Kenneth Paul Block
Leonard Boxer
James Brady
A. Barry Briskman
Vern Brunner
Roderick Anthony “Dolla” Burton 2nd
Alfredo Canessa
Jean Baptiste Caumont
Arthur Chapnik
Roy Colton
Margaret Mazzaraco Corsello
Walter Cronkite
Trammell Crow
Catherine di Montezemolo
Rena Dumas
Dominick Dunne
Jim Edelman
Robert Eickmeyer
Robert Fairchild
Marvin Fenster
Felice “Phil” Ferrante
Donald G. Fisher
Stanley Gellers
Sanford “Sandy” Glanzrock
Marvin Goodman
J. James Gordon
Alex Grass
Gedalio “Gerry” Grinberg
Mary Hamrah
Ellen Harth
Sam Haskins
Carolyn Horchow
Jodi Fisher Horowitz
Thomas Hoving
Robert Isabell
Paul Isenberg
Renee Johnsen
Robert Kaplan
Norman Karr
Neil Kearney
Edward M. Kennedy
Alan J. Lebow
Charles “Mask” Lewis
Ernest Marx
Gaetano Mascolo
John McPhee
Oscar Micucci
Henry S. Miller Jr.
Jimmy Moore
Nonnie Moore
Patricia Turck-Paquelier
Peter Panter
Ben Peck
Irving Penn
Claudie Pierlot
Penny Proddow
Randall A. Ridless
Lucia Moreira Salles
Ruth Saltz
Abbijane Schifrin
Linda Segal
John Shanley
Melvin Simon
Naomi Sims
Dash Snow
Klaus Steilmann
Bruno Storp
Sy Syms
Jean-Claude Taffin de Givenchy
Hiroki Take
Nancy Talbot
George Todor
Naz Toloui
Bruce Wasserstein
Mimi Rogers Weddell
Joan Weinstein
Selma Weiser
Warren Weitzman
Herb Yalof