Richard T. (Rick) Beach; Sportswear Designer

Richard T. (Rick) Beach, 31, whose partnership with Patti Cappalli led to one of the best-known lines of women’s designer sportswear and evening-wear separates in Los Angeles. Beach had designed for Anne Cole and had his own line in San Francisco before teaming with Cappalli in 1986 to form their ready-to-wear wholesale designer collection. In Hollywood on Wednesday of the complications of AIDS.