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Article: Boutique Owner Brought Chic to Chevy Chase
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- The Washington Post
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- September 18, 2009
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Ernest Marx, 88, the owner of the upscale fashion boutique Saks
Jandel who formed close relationships with designers Yves Saint
Laurent, Valentino Garavani and Karl Lagerfeld and for many years
had exclusive metropolitan D.C. franchise rights to their creations,
died Sept. 11 at his home in Potomac. He had metastatic cancer.
Mr. Marx's store in Chevy Chase started as a fur shop that he
later expanded into a high-end fashion destination. He was one of
the first to import modern European ready-to-wear clothing to the
United States and to familiarize Americans with the refined tastes
of fashion houses in Paris, Milan and London.
"He was very, very serious about fashion, like a pastor," said ...