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Article: Appreciation; The Halston Signature; Designer's Clean Lines Defined a Decade
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- The Washington Post
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- March 28, 1990
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He designed Jacqueline Kennedy's pillbox hat and Elizabeth
Taylor's caftans. Lauren Bacall, Diana Vreeland, Lee Radziwill,
Happy Rockefeller, Barbara Walters wore clothes that he conceived.
And he became as famous as they were. He was America's first
celebrity designer.
Halston died in his sleep Monday, at Pacific Presbyterian
Hospital in San Francisco. He was 57. His brother, Robert Frowick,
said yesterday that the designer had struggled for more than a year
with AIDS and an AIDS-related cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma.
"Insecure people dress extravagantly," he said in 1973 during
his heyday. He designed for confidence instead.
He loved black jersey and cashmere and Ultrasuede. Halston ...