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http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...dy-designer-christian-audigier-dies/29954335/You may not have known Christian Audigier's name, but you knew his work if you were alive and entered a shopping mall between 2000-2010.
The French-born designer made household names out of the tattoo-inspired Ed Hardy clothing line as well as Von Dutch.
He has died at 57 after battling cancer, his publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, announced on her websiteLATFUSA.com.
Audigier told TMZ this spring that he'd been diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome in January. (That's the same blood disorder that Good Morning America host Robin Roberts battled.) After receiving a bone marrow transplant in March, he appeared to be doing better.
After starting out as as a denim designer in France, he moved to New York in his 20s. But it wasn't until he relocated to Los Angeles that he broke out. That was when he was hired by then unknown label Von Dutch. Together with owner Kenneth Howard, Audigier popularized the brand by putting their clothes on the backs of stars like Justin Timberlake and then girlfriend Britney Spears.
In 2004, Audigier left Von Dutch and performed the same marketing miracle for Ed Hardy, a small brand based on the designs of tattoo artist Don Hardy.
Ed Hardy clothes and their neon color palette soon became ubiquitous.
But Audigier unwittingly harmed the brand in 2009 when he befriended the newly single Jon Gosselin, the dad from TLC's Jon & Kate Plus 8. Soon, Ed Hardy clothes became shorthand for divorced dads trying desperately to appear hip.
His other business ventures included wines and fragrance lines as well as a stake in a Las Vegas nightclub, which shuttered in 2010.
He had one child, a daughter named Crystal.
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