Famous retail designer dies SAN RAFAEL (AP) - Marget Aagot Larsen, who rose to international prominence as a retail designer in the 1950s, has died of cancer at her home here. She was 62. As a designer for the Joseph Magnin chain, Miss Larsen revolutionized its packaging, graphics, displays and other merchandising operations. Miss Larsen, who died Monday, was best known for her Beethoven, Bach and Brahms sweatshirts the first of their kind which she and designer Howard Gossage 1 made for Sick's Rainier Brewery. While collaborating with Gossage and his partner Robert Brewster Freeman, who later became her husband, Miss Larsen was responsible for Freeman & Gossage's pioneering advertising art, including the elaborate typography of her New Yorker magazine ads for the Whiskey Distillers of Ireland.
