Fashion and Costume Designer.  Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a teenager he started working with his mother as a custom clothing designer.  He moved to California in 1955 because he was attracted by the casual, well made fashions there and landed a job working for 20th Century Fox in the costume department. During the 1960s he was considered one of California’s best known fashion designers and in 1963 he received the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award. (bio by: Louis M.)