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Jessica McClintock, influential S.F. designer, dies at 90 By Steve Rubenstein From her headquarters on Potrero Hill, Jessica McClintock oversaw a clothing empire that, at its height, operated dozens of stores across the country and outfitted women in dresses, handbags, watches, eyeglasses and a perfume that hinted of jasmine. The influential designer died in her sleep on Feb. 16, smack in the middle of what her website declared to be the month of romance, “when most weddings are planned.” McClintock was 90. McClintock sold fantasy as much as she sold finery. Her silky, satiny creations cost three figures, not four or five. In later years they were sold at Marshall’s, not Saks, and at Nordstrom Rack, not Nordstrom. But at the height of her empire, in the 1970s and 1980s, she adorned scores of women in calico, jute and lace for proms, graduations and the wedding altar. ....
Jessica McClintock, influential San Francisco designer who dressed women in calico and lace, dies at 90 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Designer Jessica McClintock, was famed for her Gunne Sax line of prom dresses, which were huge in department stores in the 1980s.Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle 2011Show MoreShow Less 2of3 Designer Jessica McClintock at her San Francisco headquarters in 2011.Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle 2011Show MoreShow Less 3of3 Designer Jessica McClintock said “the most famous person to wear her designs” was Hillary Clinton, who wore a McClintock wedding gown when she married Bill Clinton in 1975.Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle 2011Show MoreShow Less From her headquarters on Potrero Hill, Jessica McClintock oversaw a clothing empire that, at its height, operated dozens of stores across the country and outfitted women in dresses, handbags, watches, eyeglasses and a perfume that hinted of jasmine. ....