Word: halston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Halston, né Roy Halston Frowick, is one of high fashion's best designers -and best business minds. Unheard of 15 years ago, he built a custom and ready-to-wear business that will sell $28 million worth of high-priced fashions this year, including thousands of "ultra suede" dresses that go for $220 apiece...
...issued a series of "Famous Couturiers of the World" stamps that reflects a more staid image than Bianca's. The series of eight includes a five-cordoba stamp ($2.00) for Balmain of Paris, a one-cordoba stamp for the French designer Givenchy, and a 15-centavo stamp for Halston, the only American honored...
...series of "Famous Couturiers of the World" stamps that reflects a more staid image than Bianca's. The series of eight includes a five-cordoba stamp ($2.00) for Balmain of Paris, a one-cor-doba stamp for the French designer Givenchy, and a 15-centavo stamp for Halston, the only American honored...
...want to walk out on the lawn wearing a white silk shirt and white flannels presents a very rich, dreamlike atmosphere," says New York Designer Ralph Lauren, whose Polo label has looked longingly back at the '20s for some time. There are dissenters inevitably. Designers Galanos and Halston view Gatsby by any name as a banana-oil slick. It is "not an influence on truly fashionable people," says Halston, whose clients include Jackie Onassis and Mrs. William Paley. "Women have finally settled down to pants, and that's the way it will be for a long time...
Bill Blass, who "can't remember the last time I did a strapless dress," produced several for his spring collection. Perhaps the most "in" designer of all, Halston, who numbers Jackie Onassis and Candice Bergen among his clients, believes that "the well-exercised body should not be encased." But he wisely concentrates on baring the safest female area for general display-the back. One slinky black jersey by Halston has a centerfold cutout scooped so low that it frames the lady's sacrum, covering only her ilium...