Article: Inside Halston

The crazy parties at Studio 54 and his highbrow celebrity alliances tend to cloud our memories of Halston. But two biographers want to shift the focus to what made him really legendary - his designs.

Halston: An American Original by Elaine Gross and Fred Rottman (HarperCollins, $50) is a coffee-table tome that cuts through the fluff and gives the bottom line on Halston's genius as a socialite, a designer and a businessman. It comes nine years after Steven Gaines' book, Simply Halston, caused waves for its gossipy tone and egregious errors.

"Other articles focused on his personal life . . . his fast lifestyle," says Rottman, who worked with Halston from 1978 to 1981, cataloging patterns. "We ...

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