Georgia Bullock; Longtime Fashion Designer

Georgia Bullock, 73, a onetime May Co. and Bullock’s saleswoman, who began designing her own line of clothes while she was in her early 20s. In her designs, she combined high style with simple elegance. By 1953, she began to design for Nellie Don in Kansas City. She later returned to Los Angeles and began using imported fabrics and unusual prints. By the 1960s, she was showing her popular designs at parties on her tennis court at her Holmby Hills home. Bullocks Wilshire, I. Magnin and Saks were among her clients. In 1966, she was awarded a garment Industry Fashion Citation as designer of the year. Most recently, she held showings at her homes in Palm Desert and Carlsbad until the onset of Alzheimer’s disease curtailed her work. On Friday in Santa Monica of the complications of Alzheimer’s.