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Willi Donnell Smith

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Willi Donnell Smith

Birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
17 Apr 1987 (aged 39)
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Cremated. Specifically: Disposition by cremation according to newspaper obituary; Location of ashes is unknown. Add to Map
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Fashion Designer. Known for being one of the most successful African American designers in the industry.

He also designed the wedding dress worn by Mary Jane Watson when she married Peter Parker in the Spider-Man comic book and comic strip in 1987 and the suits for Edwin Schlossberg and his groomsmen when he married Caroline Kennedy in 1986.

Smith died at the relatively young age of 39 from AIDS-related complications. Smith has a panel in the original NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and is also lamented in a poem Speak: A Poem for the Millennium March by Keith Boykin, read by its author for the Millennium March on Washington for Equality on April 29, 2000.
Fashion Designer. Known for being one of the most successful African American designers in the industry.

He also designed the wedding dress worn by Mary Jane Watson when she married Peter Parker in the Spider-Man comic book and comic strip in 1987 and the suits for Edwin Schlossberg and his groomsmen when he married Caroline Kennedy in 1986.

Smith died at the relatively young age of 39 from AIDS-related complications. Smith has a panel in the original NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and is also lamented in a poem Speak: A Poem for the Millennium March by Keith Boykin, read by its author for the Millennium March on Washington for Equality on April 29, 2000.

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