Joseph Ettedgui: Founder of Joseph conform tag dies

By Laura Roberts 700AM GMT twenty March 2010

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Joseph Ettedgui, described as the "creator of complicated retail", upheld afar in London on Wednesday.

The 71 year-old sole the important women"s conform tag scarcely five years ago for a reported �23.8 million.

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He remained as pleasing executive for a time after the sale and a mouthpiece for the tag pronounced his change was still felt.

"Although he hasn"t been here in person, his singular prophesy has remained with us and will go on to do so," she said.

"It"s a very, really unhappy day. He might have left the association five years ago but he still stays a really big piece of it. All of us are intensely upset."

Ettedgui"s hermit Maurice pronounced his elder hermit had been battling cancer that had worsened in the past 3 months.

He told conform website WWD that he, Joesph along with their hermit Franklin, "were the 3 musketeers".

"We worked together all the lives," he said. "I"ll recollect Joseph for his kindness, his generosity, and his vision. He could see things prior to any one else. He was a conspicuous man."

Ettedgui, who died in a London sanatorium yesterday surrounded by family members, additionally worked with the London-based oppulance tanned hide accessories code Connolly.

WWD reported that a in isolation use will be hold on Sunday afternoon in London.

Today the Joseph website gimlet the elementary reverence "Joseph Ettedgui 1938-2010" steady regard since to the engineer prior to his death.

Designer John Richmond described him as "the writer of complicated retail", Miucca Prada pronounced "his shops are amongst the majority pleasing in the world" and Christian Lacroix pronounced "he is maybe the usually one to have done healthy and successful alchemy in between tough nosed commercial operation and avant garde art".

Azzedine Alaia pronounced Ettedgui took risks "when others are giving up", adding "If everybody were similar to him, conform would be saved."

Ettedgui, the son of a French-Moroccan seat retailer, came to London from Casablanca in 1960 and lerned as a hairdresser.

He was desirous by Kenzo, who he met in Paris, whose knitwear designs Ettedgui sole in his hair reception room on the Kings Road, Chelsea.

He non-stop his initial emporium next the reception room in the early Seventies.

Ettedgui determined Joseph in 1972 and went on to open some-more than twenty shops in London, Manchester, Leeds, France, Germany and the US.

Nicholas Foulkes, writer of Last of the Dandies, pronounced "With his undone hair, somewhat mischievous grin and cigar, Joseph was a loyal Londoner even though he never strew his French accent. I hold that Joesph will come to be regarded as one of the handful of men who made London ambience in the last entertain of the century and who helped to settle stylish London today."