Famed San Francisco Fashion Designer Jessica McClintock Dies

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/CNN) — For many San Francisco Bay Area women, a design by Jessica McClintock made their prom night or wedding day even more special.

On Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that McClintock “died peacefully in her sleep at home” on February 16. She was 90.

McClintock was best known for her dresses, particularly bridal and prom designs “based on the ideal of romance and beauty,” wrote the Chronicle’s Steve Rubenstein. “Her name became synonymous with milestone events in a woman’s life…christening, prom, graduation, engagement and wedding,” he writes.

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