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Article: Fashion designer Halston dead at 57
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 27, 1990
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Halston, probably the most influential American designer of the
1970s, died Monday night in San Francisco. According to his brother,
Robert Frowick, the 57-year-old designer died after a one-and-a-half
year battle against AIDS and an AIDS-related cancer, Kaposi's
sarcoma.
The designer died in his sleep at 11:21 p.m. at Pacific
Presbyterian Hospital, according to a hospital spokesman.
Born Roy Halston Frowick in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1932, Halston
got his start in the fashion world in Chicago. He first gained fame
as a milliner, creating such style landmarks as Jacqueline Kennedy's
pillbox hats, and went on to design elegant, tasteful clothes worn by
the likes of Lauren Bacall, Catherine ...