In the world of high-fashion, the influence of designer Ted Lapidus is still present six years after his death in 2008 and fourteen years after his haute couture fashion house closed in 2000. Lapidus is renowned for introducing and pioneering the unisex fashion phenomenon in the late 1960’s, a look that is still popular forty years later. Lapidus is also celebrated for being the first designer to utilize military inspired looks on his men’s and ladies’ fashion collections in the late 1960’s as well. In the early 1970’s, Lapidus introduced the safari suit, a style incorporated by many designers today.…
