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Lilly Pulitzer Dies at 81; Heiress Who Gave Elite Clothes a Tropical Splash

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Lilly Pulitzer Dies at 81; Heiress Who Gave Elite Clothes a Tropical Splash

Says the NYT in the obituary for Lilly Pullitzer, who built a "fashion empire" out of "tropical print shift dresses and lighthearted embrace of jarring color combinations like flamingo pink and apple green." Lilly was born into

I have been wearing Lilly Pulitzer designs devotedly since I was a teenager. Even my New York apartment is completely decked out with the signature patterns and sharp colors. I guess you could say I'm to some extent obsessed.

Lilly Pulitzer, a socialite turned fashion designer whose tropical print dresses became a sensation in the 1960s and later a fashion mainstay, died Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla. She was 81. Her death was confirmed by Gale Schiffman of Quattlebaum Funeral

Lilly Pulitzer, the the upper classes matron turned fashion designer, describing to the New Yorker the nervous breakdown that led to finding her future career: She started selling oranges from her rich huband's citrus groves, and when that work became too hot

Lilly Pulitzer, the accidental fashion designer who dreamed up the Lilly, the raucously colored, austerely cut frock that since the 1960s has filled the closets of women who live or wish to live in an eternal summertime, died April 7 at her home in Palm

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