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Blackwell, Mr

LC control no.n 91018408
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Personal name headingBlackwell, Mr.
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Variant(s)Blackwell, Richard
Mr. Blackwell
Mister Blackwell
Selzer, Richard Sylvan
Ellis, Dick
Birth date1922-08-29
Death date2008-10-19
Place of birthBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activityFashion design
Profession or occupationFashion designers Critics
Found inHis Mr. Blackwell's worst, 1991: CIP t.p. (Mr. Blackwell) data sheet (born Richard Selzer; world famous style critic)
Phone call to pub. 2-20-91 (Mr. Blackwell will not reveal date of birth; wishes to be known by his world famous name "Mr. Blackwell")
From rags to riches, 1995: CIP t.p. (Mr. Blackwell) data sheet (Richard Blackwell) book p. (Richard Sylvan Selzer)
New York times WWW site, Oct. 20, 2008 (Mr. Blackwell; first name: Richard; b. Richard Sylvan Selzer, 1922; d. Sunday [Oct. 19, 2008], aged 86; acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears) Oct. 21, 2008 (b. Aug. 29, 1922, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn; d. in Los Angeles)
Wikipedia, viewed Aug. 13, 2013 (Richard Blackwell, born Richard Sylvan Selzer in Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn; teen actor under the name "Dick Ellis"; given the name Richard Blackwell by Howard Hughes; syndicated fashion journalist for the Globe; died at Los Angeles, Oct. 19, 2008)
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