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Article: ANNE MAREE LEWIN, LINGERIE DESIGNER.(Obituary)
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- WWD
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- October 27, 2006
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Byline: Karyn Monget
NEW YORK - Anne Maree Lewin, a lingerie designer known for contemporary daywear, sleepwear, robes and at-homewear bearing the Anne Lewin label, died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 52.
The cause of death was osteogenic sarcoma, a bone cancer, said her former mother-in-law, Evan Frances Agnew.
Lewin, an Australian who studied fashion design at the University of Queensland, started her own lingerie company, Anne Lewin Ltd., in Brisbane, Australia, in the early Eighties. She sold the company and arrived in the U.S. in 1985, where she founded the Anne Lewin Australia lingerie and sleepwear firm in New York.
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