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Liz Claiborne Dead at 78

Designer was first woman to found Fortune 500 company

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 28, 2007 5:03 AM CDT

(Newser) – Designer Liz Claiborne, whose styles aimed at career women revolutionized everyday fashion sense in America and brought feminine new looks to the workplace, is dead at 78. She was the first woman founder of a Fortune 500 company. Claiborne died Tuesday in New York, after... Read full story »

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