With meticulous tailoring and a taste for leather, he was the architect of the decade’s highly structured and eroticized tough chic style.
Claude Montana, the audacious and haunted French designer whose exquisite tailoring defined the big-shouldered power look of the 1980s — an erotic and androgenous tough chic that brought him fame and accolades until he was felled by drugs and tragedy in the ’90s — died on Friday in France. He was 76.
The Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode confirmed the death but did not specify a cause or say where he died.
Mr. Montana was among a cohort of avant-garde Parisian designers, among them Thierry Mugler
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