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Article: Halston: an American original. (fashion designer) (obituary)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- March 28, 1990
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HALSTON An American Original
NEW YORK -- Halston, who began his career as a milliner and became one of the best-known fashion designers in America, died Monday night at the Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco. He was 57.
The hospital said the cause of death was an AIDS-related cancer, Kaposi's Sarcoma, involving the lungs.
He is survived by two brothers, Robert and Donald Frowick, and a sister, Sue Watkins. The three held a press conference at the hospital Tuesday afternoon and said Halston had been in and out of the hospital since December, residing with his sister in Santa Rosa, Calif., between hospital stays. They said he died ...