Emanuel Ungaro, Adventurous Fashion Designer, Is Dead at 86

Emanuel Ungaro, whose merging of attention-getting colors and patterns with sleek lines made him one of the most talked-about fashion designers in Paris beginning in the 1960s and served as the foundation for the fashion house that still bears his name, died on Saturday in Paris. He was 86.

The Emanuel Ungaro fashion house, which Mr. Ungaro sold in 2005, announced his death on its Facebook page. No cause was given.

Mr. Ungaro, who came from a family of tailors, established his fashion house in 1965 after working under the designer Cristóbal Balenciaga.

The celebrity journalist James Brady, in a “Brady’s Bits” column in 1987, wrote that Mr. Ungaro, whom he had known since the 1960s, financed his first show with a loan that used a girlfriend’s Porsche as collateral. The event, Mr. Brady wrote, was held in a small apartment. People sat on the balcony and peered in through windows to see the clothes.

Source: The New York Times

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