Liz Claiborne, the designer who built a global fashion empire by taking career women out of “uptight ... pleated skirts, cowl-neck sweaters, ponchos and shirt jackets. The pieces -- which ...

Claim: Designer Liz Claiborne appeared on a popular television talk show and announced that she doesn't design clothes for black women because "their hips are too big." As with so many "damning ...

Though her business was clothing women, Ms Claiborne was in a ... had only to spot her love of red—“Liz Red”, the brightest in the palette, in sweaters and bags and round the rim of her ...

Liz Claiborne ... Along with Donna Karan a decade later, Claiborne's name is synonymous with outfitting the new career women of the '70s and '80s. In fact, Karan's first major fashion job was ...

NEW YORK – Fashion designer Liz Claiborne, whose styles became a cornerstone of career women’s wardrobes in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, the company she founded said Wednesday. She was 78.

Fashion designer Liz Claiborne has died at the age of 78. Her line of clothes became popular in the late '70s. It was a time when women began working outside the home in large numbers, and Liz ...