RIP: Mr. Blackwell

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86.

Publicist Harlan Boll says Blackwell died Sunday of complications from an intestinal infection.

Blackwell, whose first name was Richard, was a little-known dress designer when he issued his first tongue-in-cheek criticism of Hollywood fashion disasters for 1960—long before Joan Rivers and others turned such ridicule into a daily affair.

Year after year, he would take Hollywood's reigning stars and other celebrities to task for failing to dress in what he thought was the way they should.

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Noooooooooo!!!!!! Man, I loved him, even if he only put celebs who were safe in their clothing choices on his best dressed list.

 

moves right to the top in the race for worst-dressed corpse of 2008.

(too soon?)

 

Forget the the worst dressed list - I think his worst claim to fame is spawning a quasi-industry of uninformed, snarky fashion criticism from Coju to Joan Rivers et. al.
RIP dude.

 

A girl at work told me this tonight and I said "NOOOOOOOOO! I loved Mr. Blackwell!" And the only guy left on desk didn't know who he was.

 

When Stewie grows up, he's got a 70% chance to be Mr. Blackwell.

 

Now he will be analyzing the angels' robes and wings.

 

Perhaps one of the first examples of a media-created celebrity, someone who was famous for pretty much no reason whatsoever other than someone once thought he was entertaining.

 

Phew. For a moment, I thought we'd lost one of the great mustaches of the early 1980s.

 

Holy crap. What a get.

 

If there's justice, etc. ...

"A dignified black suit in a casket with light blue upholstery and pinkish rouge on the death mask?

All wrong!

Do not pass go, head straight to fashion hell, Mr. Blackwell! That $10 suit is so bad, worms won't eat it."

RIP to a man who launched a cottage industry of vapidity.