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Halston
By the late 1970s, the designer Halston (1932-1990) was synonymous with American a modern, minimal yet glamorous look that encompassed everything from a pioneering Ultrasuede dress to flowing caftans to perfume in a sinuous curved bottle, to uniforms that lent panache to flight attendants and The Girl Scouts of America alike. Beginning his career as a milliner to socialites and celebrities in Chicago in the late 1950s, by 1972 Halston had been named "the premier fashion designer of all America" by Newsweek magazine and was firmly established in New York; he counted such personalities as Liza Minnelli, Andy Warhol, and Bianca Jagger among his friends and clients. Tall, charismatic, impeccably dressed, Halston personified the lofty ambitions and non-stop nightlife of the 1970s and early 1980s as he traveled in jet-set circles both louche and luxe.
This book, a visual anthology of Halston's life and legacy, includes previously unpublished catwalk photographs, rare archival photographs by Andy Warhol, behind-the-scenes images of fashion shows and parties, sketches, and specially commissioned photographs of Halston collections.
This book, a visual anthology of Halston's life and legacy, includes previously unpublished catwalk photographs, rare archival photographs by Andy Warhol, behind-the-scenes images of fashion shows and parties, sketches, and specially commissioned photographs of Halston collections.
- GenresFashionPhotography
560 pages, Hardcover
First published May 10, 2001
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July 30, 2023
If one could think of one classy designer from the 1970s, Halston would be one. He started his career in Chicago as a milliner making hats for ladies, then moved on to New York to take the leap to becoming a fashion designer with a modern, minimal, but glamorous style, fit for rich, jet set, famous people, "between 22 and 55" (of age).
This book focuses on pictures (all with explaining texts), less text (though texts are informative). Photos, sketches, advertisement, articles (quite readable), and magazine covers. Andy Warhol's photos and advertisement desgins are also here; I have read Warhol's diaries and Halston is plenty in there.
(I wish I could've smelled what his perfume smelled like, even if it turned out I wouldn't like them. Classy looking bottle, I can see from Googling it.)
Many famous people here that I know, looking younger (especially Cybill Shepherd in Life's 1971 cover *rawr*). Some models I have heard about, actresses, etc. Halston clearly also fit well the Studio 54 world, it seems, though probably it played a part in his decline.
I may never want to wear many of the outfits here, but many looked interesting and fitting their time's fashion world. A lot of photos, a thick book, a fitting compilation of this man's work.
This book focuses on pictures (all with explaining texts), less text (though texts are informative). Photos, sketches, advertisement, articles (quite readable), and magazine covers. Andy Warhol's photos and advertisement desgins are also here; I have read Warhol's diaries and Halston is plenty in there.
(I wish I could've smelled what his perfume smelled like, even if it turned out I wouldn't like them. Classy looking bottle, I can see from Googling it.)
Many famous people here that I know, looking younger (especially Cybill Shepherd in Life's 1971 cover *rawr*). Some models I have heard about, actresses, etc. Halston clearly also fit well the Studio 54 world, it seems, though probably it played a part in his decline.
I may never want to wear many of the outfits here, but many looked interesting and fitting their time's fashion world. A lot of photos, a thick book, a fitting compilation of this man's work.
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