Fashion critic Richard Blackwell dies in Los Angeles

Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell in 2000, when he named the Queen as the third-worst dressed woman

Chris Ayres in Los Angeles

The acerbic American fashion critic known simply as Mr Blackwell, who invented the notorious annual Worst-Dressed List and lampooned everyone from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died in Los Angeles.

Mr Blackwell, who rarely used his first name, Richard, was a failed Hollywood actor turned little-known dress designer when he issued his first tongue-in-cheek list of Hollywood fashion disasters for 1960 – long before the likes of the blogger Perez Hilton turned such ridicule into a lucrative business.

via timesonline