ACCLAIMED COSTUME DESIGNER KLOTZ DEAD AT 86

Last updated: Friday, November 3, 2006

ACCLAIMED COSTUME DESIGNER KLOTZ DEAD AT 86

Six-time Tony Award-winning costume designer FLORENCE KLOTZ has died at her home in Manhattan, New York. She was 86.

Klotz worked on 60 Broadway productions in a career that spanned more than 40 years, which began on the original production of THE KING + I.

She won Tonys as Best Costume Designer for FOLLIES, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, PACIFIC OVERTURES, GRIND, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN and 1995's SHOWBOAT, for which she created over 580 designs.

She was also nominated for an Oscar for her work on ELIZABETH TAYLOR's outfits in the film version of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Klotz became one of Taylor's favourite designers and created the wedding outfit for the actress' 1976 nuptials to JOHN WARNER.

Source: WENN

| Friday, November 3, 2006

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