Wilmer Weiss; Former Executive for I. Magnin

Wilmer Weiss, 71, a former senior vice president for the I. Magnin retail chain. Weiss began his 50-year fashion career in Detroit as a window display assistant. His forte remained fashion presentation and visual merchandising, as he organized fashion shows and designed window and store displays. In addition to his Detroit retailers, Weiss worked for Franklin Simon and A&S; in New York City and May Co. in Los Angeles. He joined San Francisco-based Magnin in 1985 and was responsible for advertising, store planning, special events, public relations and oversight of the fashion elements of the catalog division. A popular seminar speaker and fashion show designer, Weiss was inducted into the National Retail Merchant Assn.’s Visual Merchandising Hall of Fame. On July 11 in San Francisco of cardiac problems.