Fashion designer, 50, found dead with scarf around neck in NYC home

Svitlana Indelicato, 50, was unconscious and unresponsive when her husband claimed he found her inside a room in the Bensonhurst home on 80th Street

A Brooklyn-based fashion designer was found dead with a scarf around her neck inside her home this week, law enforcement sources said Friday.

Svitlana Indelicato, 50, who designed handbags, scarves, and Pashmina shawls, was discovered unconscious and unresponsive by her husband in a room in their Bensonhurst home on 80th Street near 16th Avenue around 5 a.m. Thursday. He immediately called the police, the sources said.

A scarf was wrapped around her neck, the sources added. EMS workers responded, and Indelicato was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. The NYPD described her injuries as "trauma" to the neck.

A Brooklyn-based fashion designer was found dead with a scarf around her neck inside her home this week, law enforcement sources said Friday.

No arrests have been made, and the city's medical examiner's office will officially determine the cause of her death.

Indelicato sold bags on her Etsy shop VitalTemptation and scarves on the shop ScarfObsession. On LinkedIn, she described her work: "I work with wool, silk and other natural fibers using very unique and almost forgotten techniques while creating my designs.

I use felting, [which] is an ancient textile art, where manipulating wool, warm soapy water and rolling, squeezing, and rubbing creates a very special one-of-a-kind piece."