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Featured Designers - Halston

"No designer has ever made fashion alone.  People make fashion."  Halston
Roy Halston Frowick was born in Iowa in 1932.  From an early age, he wanted to be a milliner, and his first job in fashion was designing hats for a chicago celebrity clientele.  He left there to work for Lilly Dache in New York City - by this time he was calling himself Halston.   He left Lilly Dache to become the head milliner for Bergdorf Goodman.
Halston designed the pillbox hat Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her husband's inauguration as President.  He moved from designing hats to ready-to-wear clothes for Bergdorf Goodman, and set up his own studio in 1968.   Halston was an instant success, and in 1972 Newsweek called him "the premier fashion designer of all America".
Halston's signature perfume, called Halston, became the second-best selling fragrance ever.   Halston won 5 Coty Awards, and was selected for the Fashion Walk of Fame.  Halston Inc. was sold in 1973, with Halston still having creative control, but his insistence on personally supervising and approving licensed items, combined with his party lifestyle, created great difficulties for the company.
Halston was the first true celebrity of American fashion designers, and was a fixture at New York City's Studio 54 nightclub.
Halston was fired from his own company in 1984, because his personal issues made him impossible to work with.  He died in 1990.
Halston's clothes are known for elegant lines and simplicity - a chic minimalism.  His jersey dresses and shirtdresses defined an era.  Halston pioneered the use of Ultrasuede, and popularized cashmere.
The Halston design house fell on hard times after Halston's death, and changed designers frequently.   The house was even dissolved in 1996 and brought back in 1997 with Randolph Duke as creative director.  In 2007, the company was purchased by movie producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and Tamara Mellon has been brought over from Jimmy Choo to provide creative guidance.

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