Claude Montana, the French fashion designer, who has died probably aged 74, defined the exaggerated silhouettes that characterised power-dressing women of the 1980s, when he became known as the “King of the Shoulder Pad”.
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By the turn of the century, Montana was more like Greta Garbo in that he became a phantom, a recluse rarely seen in public that he came to be known as the Phantom of the Palais-Royal.