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>> wow. joining me now is model pat cleveland who worked with halston through the height of his career and so good to see you. >> i appreciate it. thanks. >> listen, it was such an iconic designer, larger-than-life personality. what it was like to work with halston? >> a generous person that cared very much about the people he chose to be around him. we were like a colorful tribe of rainbow people. it was lovely. he hosted beautiful people. he wanted to dress everybody. we were the ones that were fortunate to get the chiffon to wave. i am like a flagpole. the way that he cut it made us all fee...

Coat. jackie was in a cloth coat and a cloth hat. >> i'll never forget the impact that hat had. even out in montana where i was sitting at the time. >> it was a very funny story because it was a rather windy day. she put her hand on the hat and it ended up to have a dent in it. during all the ceremonies it had a dent in it and everybody who copied it put a dent in it, which was so funny. >> and everybody started making hats with the dent. with me the director of halston, frederick chang and roland balan ballister, the producer. halston is an icon of the fashion industry. how did he get to be s...

Nelli -- liza minnelli, elizabeth taylor and it's hard to remember how big he was in the '70s. there were like new yorker cartoons about him and liza. you know, he was really in the popular mainstream culture. at the same time, he protected his privacy very, very fiercely. and so as a director, it was interesting to sort of pierce through the perfect image that he was projecting. he was the first instagram before instagram was invented because he did have an idea of how he wanted to be portrayed in the media and projected that really strongly. >> i learned so much in this, and it is a fascinat...

And then moved to chicago and then moved to nowhere, started at bergdorf goodman. he slowly climbed the ladder. it's not like he came out overnight and was this big star. but he cultivated the woman of new york city, the influential woman. and then when his time came in the late 60s, early 70s, he jumped from european couture to starting something uniquely american. that's what made him completely blow up because it was simple, it was unstructured, it made a woman feel good, and all the women, you know, sort of gravitated towards that scene. >> i loved how liza put it, the clothes danced with ...

>> during the height of fame in the 1970s, the name halston was fame, status as a groundbreaking stylist to the stars and fixture on the new york party circuit as well as the fashion and life empire mystifying industry insiders and the american public alike. here is a preview. >> it hit me like this is it. this is the fashion that i would want to wear. overnight it was a clean look. the simplicity was really needed after the 60s. it was all-american. from an all-american boy.