NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apparel designer Liz Claiborne, who started the namesake U.S. company Liz Claiborne Inc., has died, a company spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday.
Claiborne, 78, was ailing from cancer and died at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Tuesday, her assistant said.
Claiborne founded the company in 1976 with her husband Art Ortenberg, a textile industry veteran, and two others, and retired in 1989.