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Sad news from the fashion industry.  Fashion designer Ted Lapidus, whose career soared in the 1960s and 1970s with the unisex and safari look, died Monday at age 79 in a hospital in Cannes on the French Rivera, his family said.

“He died at 2:30 pm. He had suffered for several years from leukemia and died of respiratory failure,” said Rose Torrente-Mett, his sister, also a designer.  Lapidus was burried at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Edmond Lapidus, known as Ted, was born on June 23, 1929 in Paris. He was the son of a Russian immigrant tailor who opened his fashion house in 1958.

His clients included French film stars Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon.

President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage to Lapidus as “the poet of high fashion” and extended his condolences to Olivier Lapidus, the designer’s son who continues his father’s work, a statement from his office said.  It will be interesting to see next years fashion done by Olivier.

Hardy Amies, the fashion house that dressed Britain’s Queen Elizabeth for more than 30 years, plans to file for bankruptcy after failing to find new sources of funding, though it added that talks continue. Hardy Amies’ shares were suspended on London’s junior Alternative Investment Market on Friday after it said major shareholder Arev Brands Ltd was unable to offer any more financial support.

A steady stream of Britain’s retailers have gone into administration, a form of creditor protection, this year as shoppers cut spending amid rising food, fuel and mortgage costs.

Hardy Amies was appointed official dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II in 1955.

In a long career on London’s renowned tailoring thoroughfare, Savile Row, Amies dressed pop stars like the Beatles and Rolling Stones and designed suits for England’s winning 1966 World Cup soccer team, as well as costumes for films, including “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

He died in 2003 at the age of 93.

Hardy Amies shares closed at 1.25 pence on Thursday, valuing the business at about 2.8 million pounds ($5.2 million).

-Julia Roberts has returned to work with Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani to raise money for the fight against AIDS in Africa, designing a T-shirt to be sold under the “Red” label.

-The Procter & Gamble Co. is linking laundry to fashion in what’s billed as the biggest product launch yet for its venerable Tide brand. This is being done with a tidy $60 million dollar budget.

-Madonna has chosen French Haute Couture house Givenchy to design clothing for her new “Sticky and Sweet” world tour which starts in Britain this month, the fashion firm said on Tuesday.  Great boost and good tie-in.

-U.S.-based modeling agency Wilhelmina is planning an initial public stock offering (IPO) this year, according to a German daily. More details should be available shortly.

This girl is very pretty and she has some very sexy curves.  Gratz to all women out there with real bodies!!

Brazilian Gisele Bundchen is the world’s mega top supermodel with estimated earnings of $35 million during the past year, according to new ranking released on Wednesday. She more than doubled the estimated $14 million earned by Heidi Klum, who came in at No. 2 on the list by Forbes.com, followed by Kate Moss with $7.5 million, Adriana Lima with $7 million and Doutzen Kroes with $6 million.  That’s a lot of dough, but she deserves it!

Forbes.com said that although Bundchen finished her lucrative Victoria’s Secret contract last year, she continues to juggle 20 other modeling jobs. The web site said that while Klum is still a Victoria’s Secret model, the mother of three is “more of a media and retail mogul” these days with her U.S. “Project Runway” and “Germany’s Next Top Model” hosting duties and lines of jewelry, jeans and skincare.

The first New York Fashion Week was organized in 1943 by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert for buyers and fashion media unable to travel to Paris for the runway shows.

In the 1970s and ’80s, designers began to show their collections across New York City in lofts, restaurants and clubs. In 1993, Fern Mallis searched for a venue where all of the shows could be centralized and in spring 1994, Fashion Week was held in the tents at Bryant Park.

The event will continue to be held at the park for two more years, but its location beyond that remains uncertain–and Mallis is not giving away any hints.

“Stay tuned,” she says.  Fashion week is  such an exciting time, it still gives me goosebumps!

Here is a wee bit of fashion fun for the Christmas season.

 

Cate Blanchett looking absolutely scary at the Guggenheim.

As we slide back into 1980 with an awesome fashion song by David Bowie.