Halston
2011
Book
Review: By the late 1970s, the designer Halston (1932-1990) was synonymous with American style: 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.
Main title:
Halston / edited by Steven Bluttal ; essays by Patricia Mears.
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Imprint:
London : Phaidon, 2011, c2001.
Collation:
559 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published: 2001.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780714863184
Dewey class:
746.920973746.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
136106
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Art and Culture | ARTS 746.92 HALS | Available |