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Arthur Cinader with his wife, Johanna Cinader, in the late 1980s.
Maud Bryt; thumbnail, John Sotomayor/The New York Times (with Arnold Cohen, president), 1990
Arthur Cinader
Died on October 11, 2017 at age 90
Mr. Cinader founded J. Crew, the clothing retailer that rose to prominence marketing a classic preppy chic to upper-middle-income consumers.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.