He was a member of a cohort of Black designers celebrated in the late 1960s and early ’70s. But struggles with financing led to several changes in direction.
Jon Haggins, a fashion designer and bon vivant who found fame in the late 1960s and early ’70s with his sinuous, sensuous designs, but who struggled with financing and shuttered and reopened his business and reinvented himself several times, most recently as the host of a travel show on cable television, died on June 15 at his home in Queens. He was 79.
The former broadcast journalist Chee Chee Williams, a friend, confirmed the death but said the cause was not known. Mr.
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