Mr. Blackwell, Famous Fashion Designer, Dies at 86

Mr. Blackwell, the fashion critic with a sharp tongue and a strong distaste for gaudy celebrity fashion, died on Sunday in Los Angels at the age of 86.

Born Richard Sylvan Selzer in 1922, he recounted in his autobiography, “From Rags to Bitches,” a troubled, poverty-ridden childhood in which he was variously a truant, thief and prostitute.

His annual worst dressed list. released every January, pulled no punches and took a pithy tone when dealing with star's fashion faux pas. His last list said Victoria "Posh" Spice "can really wreck-em" and likened Mary-Kate Olsen to a "tattered toothpick trapped in a hurricane."

Mr. Blackwell died Sunday of complications from an intestinal infection.

We'll miss his mean-spirited, but entertaining, take on celebrity fashion.