Liz Claiborne

Liz Claiborne, First Internet Urban Legend Victim?

Los Angeles Times | by Patt Morrison | Sat, Jun 30

Sat, Jun 30 Claiborne had already retired from her company in 1989, and she never did appeare on Oprah. But never mind – this was too juicy not to pass along. And I received over the years several e-mails declaring this as fact and asking me to boycott Liz Claiborne and to urge my friends to do so.

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32 Months Ago, Patt Morrison from Huffington Post says (in Patt Morrison: Liz Claiborne, World's First Internet Hoax Victim?) I didn't see much about the odd and creepy Internet-based crusade against Liz Claiborne in the late 1990s, as a purported racist and Satanist in last week's obituaries of the clothing designer.

What I didn't see in last week's obituaries of clothing designer Liz Claiborne was much about t...

And Patt Morrison from Huffington Post says (in Patt Morrison: Liz Claiborne, World's First Internet Hoax Victim?) In the second ``now wait a minute here'' point, Oprah is described in these e-mails as wearing a Liz Claiborne dress -- hard to believe even in Oprah's pre-billionaire days. Oprah then supposedly stormed off the set, declaring that she will ''never'' wear another Liz Claiborne dress, and...