Frances Stein

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Frances Patiky Stein (September 27, 1937 – June 6, 2021) was a French-American fashion designer. She was born in Huntington, New York, on Long Island. Her mother, Frieda Krakower, was a homemaker, and her father, Jacob, owned a department store in Kings Park. She left Smith College after three years to work at Harper’s Bazaar. She built her career in magazines and later became a fashion editor and stylist for Halston, Calvin Klein, and Chanel, while also running her own jewelry and accessory line from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Stein died in Paris in 2021 from lung cancer.