PARIS, June 20 (UPI) -- French fashion designer Jean-Louis Scherrer died in a Paris clinic Thursday, following a long, unspecified illness, his representatives said. He was 78.
"Jean-Louis Scherrer was a couturier who was an emblem of the 1980s," Stephane Rolland, who worked with Scherrer for 10 years, told Radio France Internationale.