Trash and Vaudeville Manager And Style Icon Jimmy Webb Dies At 62

WEST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN — Beloved Trash and Vaudeville manager Jimmy Webb, who became a style icon lauded by the biggest names in rock music, died this week, according to reports.

Webb, 62, was a stylist at the famed East Village clothing store since 1999 and had recently opened his own shop, I NEED MORE on Orchard Street. Friends told Rolling Stone that he died Tuesday morning from cancer.

The New York City icon's death sent shockwaves through the punk and rock music world, where Webb had a long list of celebrity customers and friends.

“We are all going to miss our wonderful friend Jimmy Webb,” Blondie's Debbie Harry said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “There goes a lovely unique NYC character. I feel lucky to have known him.”

In his decades-long career Webb dressed everyone from the Ramones, to Beyonce and Justin Bieber, according to Rolling Stone. His looks were featured in Rolling Stone, Vogue and on MTV.

Born in upstate New York, Webb struggled with drug addiction and homelessness before landing the job at Trash and Vaudeville, where he eventually became the top employee, manager and buyer, the outlet reported.

He opened his own boutique in 2017.

To read the full Rolling Stone profile on Webb click here.