Word: halston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Halston died last week at the age of 57, the first reports gave the cause simply as cancer. The designer's brother, Robert Frowick, however, quickly confirmed the rumors that for months had rippled through the fitting rooms and executive suites of the glittering haute couture world. The truth was that Halston, who introduced U.S. women to the pillbox hat, slinky jerseys, tunics and Ultrasuede, who dressed Betty Ford, Liza Minnelli, Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Elizabeth Taylor, and who partied hard with the best of the jet set, had succumbed to AIDS...
...initial reluctance to name the cause of Halston's death was not unusual in the close-knit fashion industry. Broadway and Hollywood may have organized to combat the disease that is decimating their ranks, but the couture business -- increasingly nervous about its image with consumers and investors, and struggling to find a new direction in a sluggish retail market -- remains nearly silent about the disease that is carrying off some of its most famous names in their creative prime...
...worth of apparel, making up an important segment of the balance of trade. Many corporations and banks in both the U.S. and Japan are investing in fashion houses, providing needed operating cash and funding ambitious new projects. They are, says Barry Landau, a public relations executive and friend of Halston's, "buying motion picture companies or fashion houses. These are the glamour industries that give them good profiles and visibility...
While the industry mourns Halston's passing, it remains nervously mum about the disease that is extinguishing many of its most creative stars...