Bill Blass: Fashion can be many things. But it is seldom reverential, and cannot be static or reactionary. (Intentional retro is a different matter.) Thus, Michael Vollbracht’s first runway collection ...

On June 12, the industry lost one of its greatest icons, Bill Blass, who in the Fifties was instrumental in establishing American designers as a creative force that could compete on equal footing with ...

Art this Way and Bill Blass Legacy Inc. are collaborating on a mural in the Bill Blass Runway alley downtown, according to a news release from Downtown Fort Wayne. It will honor the South Side High ...

The voice of Ella Fitzgerald’s “How High the Moon” filled the room Monday as students and faculty filed into Kirkwood Hall for a talk by Dyese Matthews. Matthews is a Chicago native and currently ...

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NEW YORK -- Bill Blass, 79, who dressed the likes of Nancy Reagan and Barbara Walters while shattering the Paris-centric fashion world with youthful creations that mixed and matched chic with casual, ...

NEW YORK - Bill Blass, the fashion designer whose signature designs broke fashion molds and set standards for casual American style, died Wednesday. He was 79. Blass died at his home in Washington, ...

Nina Griscom, society fixture, ’80s “It” girl and tabloid regular, faces illness in fine fashion. By Guy Trebay During World War II, the Army called on soldiers from artistic fields for a project ...

Fashion designer Bill Blass has died at the age of 79. Liane talks with Andre Leon Talley, editor-at-large of Vogue magazine, who says Blass was pioneer in both men's and women's fashion. Talley says ...