Writes Detroit Free Press: “Halston’s cashmere sweater dress is symbolic of the casual approach to fashion he finds meaningful now. June: Sly Stone marries Kathy Silva at Madison Square Garden wearing Halston. (Stephen Sprouse is part of the Halston team at this point). His models-Heidi, Naomi, Pat, and Marina - each projects her own kind of theater in her interpretation of the clothes she wears, whether naughty shorts or sensual jersey gowns.” (Loulou de la Falaise and Pat Ast had exits in that particular spring show as well.)įebruary: Opens Madison Avenue boutique. December: Bill Cunningham, writing for The Chicago Tribune, champions Halston’s tie-dye caftans and short shorts and explains that “the personalities in a Halston show are half the excitement.

That’s the secret of fashion.” October: “Everything in the collection moves, wraps, and blows,” The Washington Post enthuses. We have to abandon the idea we all have to look alike. If you have nice legs, by damn, you want to show them.

September: The Courier Journal & Times reports: “One of the first to show a variety of lengths when it comes to hemlines, Halston says, ‘The point is to be comfortable. February: “In just one year,” notes Vogue, “Halston has become such a super source of fashion-he seems to know what we want, and should have, to wear.” April: In an article titled “The Halston Cult,” critic Eugenia Sheppard writes: “Unlike many designers who set out to please,” Halston is a steadfast pillar of one kind of tastes-always casual and underdone.

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