Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter Dies at 99; Built an Empire of Tulle and Satin
With her husband, Jack, she expanded I. Kleinfeld & Son into a bridal superstore that became a New York City institution.
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With her husband, Jack, she expanded I. Kleinfeld & Son into a bridal superstore that became a New York City institution.
Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter was known as Kleinfeld’s, a bridal superstore that for decades drew women from all over the world to the unlikely locale of Bay Ridge, a neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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 found Halston’s “compelling presence” to be “openly sensual but at the same time remote.”...