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Jenny Polanco designed women’s fashions from childhood, creating costumes for her Barbies and going on to make her own clothes for college. But she never believed that people are what they wear. She was more concerned with what was underneath.

Ms. Polanco, a breakthrough Dominican designer of clothing, jewelry and accessories, died this week in a hospital in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Rafael Sánchez Cárdenas, the public health minister, announced on Tuesday. She was 62.