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DIED. LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY, 56, fetching photographer of '60s rockers who trounced the hopes of teenyboppers when she wed one of her dreamiest subjects, Beatle Paul; after battling breast cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Their enduring union was the rule-proving exception to short-lived celebrity marriages, with the devoted couple spending just one voluntary night apart in their 29 years together. Linda became Paul's muse (the lovely, long-haired lady of his post-Beatles love ballads) and his sometime singing partner in the soft-rock group Wings. Her passions ranged far beyond the musical: she continued to take pictures...
...McCartney family spokesman, Geoff Baker, all but confirmed Thursday the PEOPLE Magazine story that Linda McCartney, the 56-year-old wife of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, died at the family ranch in Tucson, AZ, and not in Santa Barbara, CA, as reporters initially had been led to believe. Baker said he misled reporters to protect Sir Paul and the couple's four children. "If I had said where she died, [the ranch] would have been overrun straight away, and they needed time, because of their grief," he said. "Morally, I have done nothing wrong, and legally I have done...
...also caught the eye of Chloe president Mounir Moufarrige, who was intent on attracting younger customers to the label. Chloe had its heyday during Lagerfeld's tenure in the '60s and '70s, and although the designer returned in 1992, it never managed to regain its cachet. Moufarrige arrived at McCartney's studio in December 1996, pretending to be a Rome retailer. "I was attracted to the level of detail she put in her clothes," says Moufarrige. "And it helped that she did a very good job of convincing me that a 25-year-old and a 45-year-old could...
...Indeed, McCartney's spring '98 collection, her Chloe debut, features garments that could hardly be described as age-insensitive. There are exquisitely cut wide-leg pantsuits (one of her trademarks) and delicately patterned knee-length day dresses alongside lavender, lace-trimmed slip dresses, spaghetti-strap tops and diaphanous minis. McCartney's clothes bespeak a mature knowledge of flirtation. "We've done the feminist thing and beaten men down, and now we want to lure them back," McCartney, a tall, cheerful redhead, explains. "I think there's a danger in being too girly though...
There's no doubt that the executive's final choice was a wise one. "With Elbaz," says Richard Martin, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, "we are witnessing the arrival of a great talent." Elbaz and McCartney won more good reviews for their fall collections, shown in March. He featured luxurious skirt suits accented with fur or pink; she offered more alluring pants and rich dresses of blue satin...