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Article: Halston: The fashion designer's seamy side
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 30, 1991
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SIMPLY HALSTON
The Untold Story By Steven Gaines
Putnam, illustrated, 320 pp., $22.95
For those of us who witnessed one of the Halston fashion shows
at his enormous mirrored-glass-and-steel showroom on the 22d floor of
the monolithic Olympic Tower, with its wraparound, panoramic view of
Manhattan, Martha Graham sitting in the place of honor, and the
simply cut, flattering-to-every-shape coats, capes and bathing suits,
it is understandable to read, in Steven Gaines' new and detailed
account, that Halston's personal life was in shambles even then.
The setting was too perfect and Halston, tall and handsome in his
black turtleneck-and-pants uniform and silver sunglasses, was ...