Canada's Arnold Scaasi, designer to the stars, dead at 85

NEW YORK — Canadian designer Arnold Scaasi, whose flamboyant creations adorned the likes of Laura Bush, Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand, has died. The Montreal-born designer was 85. Scaasi died early Tuesday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital of cardiac arrest, said his longtime friend, Michael Selleck, executive vice-president of sales and marketing at Simon & Schuster. Until he closed his dress business in 2010, Scaasi — which was his …