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16 August

16 August in fashion history

Fashion designers, models and fashion photographers born on 16 August.

Born

  1. 1947Katharine Hamnett Fashion designer, turns 79 todayBritish fashion designer (born 1947)
  2. 1959Helen Storey Fashion designer, turns 67 todayBritish fashion designer

Died

  1. 1993Irene Sharaff Fashion designer (1993–1993)American costume designer for stage and screen (1910-1993)

Source: Wikidata (CC0). People covered by at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, plus every Lithuanian.

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