Designer, illustrator and writer Lennart Raaholt is dead. He was 71 years old.
It appears by dødsannoncer in Politiken and Berlingske tidende, as well as an obituary in the latter newspaper.
Lennart Raaholt is according to the Althing death of injury in the event of a faldulykke from the stairs in the house in Kongens Lyngby.
Lennart Raaholt, who was born Poor on the island of Funen, was a well-known, american fashion designer and writer with international work.
He became a pupil of a popular design company in the Strib by the little belt bridge, where he was so gripped by the subject, that he continued to Kunsthåndværkerskolens modelinje.
He did, however, never finished that mba, but jumped off after a few years.
instead it was for a variety of tasks for companies both at home and abroad.
the Talent for designing jeans and streetwear led him, among other things, to the world’s largest jeans manufacturer, Levi Strauss based in San Francisco, New York and Brussels.
Since came tekstilserier for Ikea, Nordic Feathers, the Nordic Textile and carpets for Ege. And, not least, a nitteprydet T-shirt, which, among other things the actress Elizabeth Taylor was a fan of. There suit for DR’s underholdningsvært Otto Leisner.
in Parallel with his production Lennart Raaholt been busy giving talks and lectures, just as he has written a variety of columns and articles.
From 1988 to 1996, he was writer and illustrator at Jyllands-Posten. Some years later he was assigned to the digital identity.
Lennart Raaholt leaves his partner through more than 40 years, interior designer Finn Bay Jørgensen.