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Article: Halston, Pure and Simple;Exhibit and Book Explore Designer's Role as Stylemaker
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- The Washington Post
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- October 28, 1991
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It is difficult to know, even now, if Halston was a great
American designer or merely seized a great American opportunity.
For five really brilliant years, at the juncture of the '60s
and '70s, he was certainly the most talked-about American designer,
the man who dressed Liza Minnelli, Marisa Berenson and Jacqueline
Onassis. Newsweek gave him a cover story and called him "the premier
fashion designer for all America," while Esquire wondered "Will
Halston take over the world?" By 1980, he had at least covered the
world with his name - on belts, sheets, gloves, furs, bras,
suitcases, wallets and tennis towels. Even the Girl Scouts had
uniforms designed by Halston.
"Everybody has got to ...