Edgar Vos (5 July 1931 – 13 January 2010) was a Dutch fashion designer.
Vos was born in
Makassar in the
Dutch East Indies (now
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
) in 1931. He studied fashion at the
Gerrit Rietveld Academie in
Amsterdam
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.
He started a chain of fifteen boutique clothing stores known as Edgar Vos Boutiques.
Vos died of a
heart attack
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while holidaying in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a day after being admitted to a hospital suffering from what is suspected to have been
pneumonia
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. He was 78.
He is survived by his partner, Geert Eijsbouts.
Dutch fashion designer Edgar Vos dies
''Toronto Sun
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'', 14 January 2010.
References
External links
Edgar Vos Boutiques official website
1931 births
2010 deaths
Dutch fashion designers
LGBT fashion designers
People from Makassar
World War II civilian prisoners held by Japan
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