Designer Cassini, 92, dies

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: March 19, 2006| Author: Richard Severo and Ruth Laferla | Copyright information

Oleg Cassini, a son of impoverished Italian and Russian nobility who achieved fame and wealth as a fabulously successful couturier, designing clothes for some of the world's most glamorous women as well as middle-class shoppers, died on Friday on Long Island, where he had a home. He was 92.

His death, at a Long Island hospital, was announced by his wife, Marianne Cassini. He also had a home in Manhattan.

Cassini had the longest career of any designer in America, covering seven de...

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