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We'd just send the pattern and they used to make everything there. >> carl told me one day that he was going to sell off all these samples. >> that was his record that should be in a museum. and they decided to sell those important pieces for 25 bucks, 50 bucks apiece. >> it was just stuff sitting here year after year doing nothing. >> some pieces went here, some pieces went there, but the mother lode of it is gone. eliminated, erased. it was hostile. >> there was nothing personal about it. if you want to call something personal -- i really didn't give a damn what halston's reaction would be. ...

About his background. in november of 1966, there was truman capote's black and white ball. >> everybody wanted to be at that ball because it was it, you know, as far as where you should go, you know. >> you would measure your social importance by the invitation, getting one or not getting one. >> do you know if he was invited to the ball? >> i would have thought so, but now i have my doubts. i don't know. was he? >> halston did not have an invite to the ball. >> we have filmed this black and white ball in color for your enlightenment. good heavens, here comings john k kenneth galbraith.

♪ >> felt like the beginning because he was so enthusiastic, and everybody was so charmed with him. he was so young and enticing. you just wanted to be in the room with him. >> i was 18. i was so innocent. i knew nothing. i was from the midwest. everyone was unusual for me. like pat, she was an andy warhol superstar with frizzy hair. ♪ i'm just wild about andy and andy's wild about me ♪ ♪ the heavenly blisses of his kisses ♪ >> this was definitely the in crowd. andy kept saying this is so in, this is so in. he knew halston from the 1950s

Broadcloth, men's wear. >> this is andy warhol's portrait of me. >> you see, pictures meant everything to halston. life is like a picture, he used to say. >> who's that lucky guy? >> well, he got his perfect picture. only, the price turned out to be a little high. ♪ ♪

But it was smoking. it was not heavy drugs. a little coke sometimes. >> i went to work for halston. best thing i ever did. i was totally 1,000% devoted to him. he was such a hard worker. i mean, he'd come in early, go home late, and always accomplish something. until studio 54. ♪ >> i took halston to studio 54. you couldn't get that guy out of a god damn den. he fell in love with it right away. >> i took halston to studio 54. so i didn't know what other stories you heard. but i remember that was the first time. he says, i'm going to bring