Word: duked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hang on to your pillbox: Halston may be back. Under the guidance of designer Randolph Duke and managing director Carmine Porcelli, the Halston label is getting hotter than a mink stole in August. Geena Davis and Minnie Driver triggered a volley of flashbulbs when they wore Halston to the Oscars in March. Exclusive department stores are stocking Halston again. After three well-received fashion shows, naysayers who clucked that the label was best consigned to history are beginning to hold their tongue. Just as folks are fondly looking back on the old Halston haunt Studio 54, with two movies...
...infusion of capital, and the company vows that all current orders will be filled. But it is unclear whether the private venture-capitalist outfit will be able to meet the needs of a white-hot clothing line in the future. And if money gets tight again, who knows if Duke and Porcelli, the architects of Halston's current success, will want to stay around...
...middle-class department stores, pulled the whole label off their racks. After that debacle Halston's empire collapsed, and he eventually lost control of his name. The label remained dormant until three years ago, when Tropic Tex decided to start it up again and recruited Porcelli, who hired Duke...
...Vegas-born designer, 40, got his start designing swimsuits for Anne Cole and had his own line of sports clothes for several years. He boasts that he once sold 5,000 five-piece matching outfits with their own carry bag in five minutes on QVC. "They were $79.95," says Duke. "You couldn't even walk into a store and get two pieces for that." With the same optimistic exuberance, Duke picked up a phone and sold himself for the job at Halston after reading in the papers that the label was being resurrected...
Tomorrow, Harvard has the chance to erase the memory of last years humiliating loss to the Big Green and add the final touch to what has been a terrific season. All year, the Crimson played in the shadow of early losses to Duke and Hobart, but it never lost its faith...