Ted Lapidus
French fashion designer Ted Lapidus dies at age 79
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,” says Rose Torrente-Mett, his sister, also a designer.
Lapidus will be buried on Friday at Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. RIP.