THE 1970s: FASHION: DEATHS

Cristobal Banenciaga, 77, Spanish designer whose revolutionary designs in the 1950s and 1960s created a new, more relaxed look in women's clothing, 24 March 1972.

Marie-Louis Valentin Bousquet, 88, Paris editor of Harper's Bazaar for fifty years, 15 October 1975.

John Ely Burchard, 77, educator, architectural historian, and dean emeritus of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 25 December 1975.

Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 88, French designer of comfortable, fashionable women's clothes, 10 January 1971.

John Donnelly, 67, architectural sculptor who designed the facades of the New York Public Library and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., 27 April 1970.

Charles Eames, 71, American architect and designer of formfitting chairs, 21 August 1978.

Norman Hartnell, 78, dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II, best known for the elaborate, pearl-embroidered wedding dress for the queen's 1947 marriage to the duke of Edinburgh, 8 June 1979.

Charles James, 72, English-born dress designer known for his single one-seam or no-seam dresses that were much copied in the United States. Considered a "designer's designer," James won two Coty fashion awards, and his drawings were acquired by the Smithsonian Institute, 23 September 1978.

Louis Isadore Kahn, 73, one of the foremost architects in the United States, who established strong forms of brick and concrete as his predominant style, 17 March 1974.

Anne Klein, 51, American designer of women's wear, 19 March 1974.

Mainbocher, 85, Chicago-born designer considered to be one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, 12 December 1976.

John Ogden Merrill, founder of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in 1939, one of the largest and most influential American architectural firms in the world, 7 June 1975.

Louis Long, 73, star member of The New Yorker's original staff who covered the nightclub circuit in the 1920s and was later the fashion editor, 29 July 1974.

Rich Lorimer, 86, architect who designed the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia, 2 June 1978.

Richard Joseph Neutra, 78, pioneer in the development of modern architecture, 16 April 1970.

Norman Norell, 72, the American designer responsible for putting New York City in the running with Paris as a center for fashion, 25 October 1972.

Eliot F. Noyes, 66, a major industrial designer and architect whose corporate clients included International Business Machines Corporation, Westinghouse, and Mobil Corporation, 17 July 1977.

Nathan M. Orbach, 87, founder of department-store chains who built his fortune by copying Paris fashions at low prices, 19 November 1972.

Barbara ("Babe") Paley, 63, socialite and perennial on the list of best-dressed women. Known for the statement "You can't be too rich or too thin," 6 July 1978.

Russell Patterson, 82, designer who popularized the flapper look of the 1920s and who created sets and costumes for the Ziegfeld Follies, 17 March 1977.

Rose Marie Reid, 66, designer who transformed bathing suits into fashion items in the 1940s, 18 December 1978.

Clarence S. Stein, architect who, with his partner Henry Wright, pioneered community planning, 6 February 1975.

Edward Durell Stone, 76, American architect who, with Philip L. Goodwin, designed the Museum of Modern Art, 6 August 1978.

William Wilson, 70, architect and educator famous for his interest in environmentally sensitive design, 20 September 1973.

Lloyd Wright, 88, elder son of Frank Lloyd Wright and designer of the Wayfarer's Chapel in Los Angeles; known for that city's first slum clearance and urban housing project, 31 May 1978.