Word: halston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have changed. The new boogie bunch dress up for the occasion-with shoulders, backs, breasts and midriffs tending to be nearly bare. Outside of a few old-style "meat racks" -mostly homosexual hangouts-few disco freaks today turn out in jeans, shorts, T shirts or sandals. Designers like Halston make women's clothes just for dancing. "The dress becomes your dancing partner," he says, and Photographer Francesco Scavullo claims that the "young and exciting fashions in the discos are the only clothes today." Dancing styles have progressed and mellowed. The hustle and the bus stop, the rope...
...theatrical producer. Actors, agents, composers, publishers-and, of course, psychiatrists-loved to mix with Adela and her third husband, Peter Holzer, who at one time or another has owned shipping and freight-forwarding companies. Everything about Adela, who claims to be 43, reeks of wealth: her multicarat jewels, her Halston gowns, her Manhattan town house (the taxes alone are $14,-000), her country home in New Jersey, complete with pool, sauna, gym and tennis court. So when Adela started jabbering to her friends about ingenious ways of making money, they listened...
Those precious originals he displayed on the runway beneath the chandeliers did not vanquish all critics. Halston, the monarch of American design, wondered, "Where will a woman wear...
Still, after reflecting on Saint Laurent's New New Look, some U.S. designers were saying at week's end that actually, it was hopelessly out of date for Americans. "The collection has no relationship to what's happening to women today," observed Ralph Lauren. Halston declared that "the costume party is over for America." Others, like Clovis Ruffin, loved it. "It reminds me of the grand old days of Paris." he said. Giorgio Sant' Angelo called it "beautiful," adding, "but to me it looks like a very old revolution...
Body Consciousness. The strapless look got broad exposure at the recent Academy Awards presentations when Elizabeth Taylor, Marlo Thomas and Marisa Berenson shouldered their part of the show in Halston sarongs. Audrey Hepburn sailed through her first Hollywood appearance in eight years in a strapless sheath by Givenchy...