Handbag designer to stars dies

By The Newsroom

Published 12th May 2010, 10:42 BST

Updated 12th May 2010, 12:16 BST

GIULIANA Coen Camerino, designer of handbags carried by Grace Kelly and Dame Elizabeth Taylor, has died aged 90.

Camerino died overnight yesterday in Venice, home of the fashion house she founded in 1945 called Roberta di Camerino. She was suddenly taken ill on the nearby peninsula of Istria, on the shores of the Adriatic.