Page 47 - Babe Paley News Today

Halston, the mononymous American fashion designer whose stripped-back, body-freeing take on luxury — caftans, halter dresses and acres of Ultrasuede — was a defining look of the 70s, continues to fascinate. Maybe thats because his career, now more than three decades in the rearview mirror, still feels so contemporary, both in terms of his aesthetic — riffs on his shirtdress are everywhere and when havent caftans been a thing? — and his business strategy — including the ...

Truman Capote and his swans would approve.

Save this story for later. If you want to buy a bottle of Halston perfume, go to your local CVS and check one of those locked plexiglass fragrance cabinets that house ancient boxes of Liz Claiborne and Jovan Musk. The Halston comes in a beige box, with the late designer’s name on it in his signature all-caps, sans-serif font, and costs about thirty dollars. But both the plastic-necked bottle and the caramel-colored juice within it are only echoes of Halston’s original 1975 blockbuster fragr...

Before Tom Ford, there was Halston, sharing the same model-like looks, penchant for black turtlenecks and black sunglasses, exquisite taste, flair for creating beautifully cut clothes that expertly walk the tightrope between sophisticated and sexy, and determination to pursue world domination through branding, slapping his name on everything from lingerie and perfume to luggage and bedding (though it’s now commonplace, Halston was the first high-end designer to pioneer such diversification). ...

Ultrasuede shirtdresses and caftans galore: We dig into the story behind the clothes that made the mononymous designer a household name.

Roy Halston Frowick, from New York, was an iconic designer to the stars in 70s    Rose to fame after designing hat for Jackie Kennedy for the inauguration in 1961  Thanks to his success in fashion world Halston embarked on a life of debauchery Hosted man-on-man orgies, slept with prostitutes and saw bestiality sex shows Addicted to drugs and doled out cocaine to dinner party guests as dessert Coke-fueled tantrums prompted him to be fired from his own company in 1984    In 1988, Halsto...

Ewan McGregor wont soon forget his fashion turn as Halston by Leanne Italie, The Associated Press Posted May 13, 2021 8:32 am EDT Last Updated May 13, 2021 at 8:44 am EDT HALSTON (L to R) EWAN MCGREGOR as HALSTON in episode 105 of HALSTON Cr. ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA/NETFLIX © 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine, if you will, a galaxy far, far away where the one-name fashion wonder Halston dresses Obi-Wan Kenobi in something fabulous from the swinging ’70s. Ewan McGregor can. Sort of. McGregor is in the...

Leanne Italie FILE - Designer Halston laughs with three of his models at the Iranian Embassy in Washington prior to the start of a benefit fashion show on on Oct. 5, 1977. A new series about the fashion designer, "Halston," premieres Friday on Netflix. (AP Photo/Charles Harrity, File) May 13, 2021 - 4:42 PM NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine, if you will, a galaxy far, far away where the one-name fashion wonder Halston dresses Obi-Wan Kenobi in something fabulous from the ...

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Roy Halston Frowick didn’t take well to being alone. When he left his childhood home in Indiana, far from the mythical coasts, he dropped two of his names like last seasons castoffs, adopted a chic mononym, and headed straight for more densely populated pastures: first Chicago, then New York City. It was in Manhattan that he reinvented himself as a fashion phenom and Studio 54 fixture, surrounded by a rotating ...

Halston with models in his designs. Photographed by Duane Michals, Vogue, December 1972 “Ewan McGregor is Halston” announces the trailer for the buzzy docuseries about the American design legend debuting this week. It’s a statement that will be put to the test over the course of the show’s five episodes as Halston (né Roy Halston Frowick) was the most elusive of men, despite his fame. The best description I’ve read of the designer comes from the pen of editor Patricia Bosworth, who...