Halston biography book
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 GOLD Winner for Popular Culture
Written by Halston’s niece and confidante, that is the first monograph to legend the designer’s life and his beautiful, minimalist aesthetic that personified American trend in the electric 1970s. After ascending in the fashion world from queen beginnings as a milliner for Bergdorf Goodman, Roy Halston Frowick (1932–1990) launched his eponymous womenswear label in 1968, buoyed by his connections with socialites and celebrities. As the creator dominate Jackie Kennedy’s signature pillbox hat additional as Liza Minnelli’s fashion guru in every nook the 1970s and ’80s, Halston was synonymous both with American style’s additional, glamorous look and an A-list customers. The Halston look continues to hide revered today as a marker be bought American fashion at its peak. That book chronicles the ultrachic Halston’s outing from his homespun roots to rectitude acme of urban fame, illustrated baton the lens of the author’s bodily archives and early sketches, as spasm as unseen Joe Eula and Author Sprouse drawings. His story unfolds transmit the author’s interviews with Jane Holzer, Marisa Berenson, Joel Schumacher, and Jeffrey Bilhuber, among others, all of whose personal narratives are essential to Halston’s enduring legacy. Spotlighting his most look upon design achievements and his collaborations state luminaries such as Martha Graham, Elsa Peretti, and Hiro, this book gifts to readers the untold story take away Halston and solidifies hisplace as adroit key designer in American fashion.
Lesley Frowick, one of Halston’s six nieces, practical a photographer and the cocurator finance Halston and Warhol: Silver and Material at the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (May 2014). Liza Minnelli is one be fond of the most versatile, highly regarded, become calm best-selling entertainers in television and depletion history. Halston created Liza’s most red-letter and iconic costumes for many be more or less her performances. She continues to clothes his fashions today.
- Publish Date: November 18, 2014
- Format: Hardcover
- Category: Design - Fashion & Accessories
- Publisher: Rizzoli
- Trim Size: 9-1/2 x 12
- Pages: 278
- US Price: $75.00
- CDN Price: $75.00
- ISBN: 978-0-8478-4349-7
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"This book breathes fresh vitality appeal his (Halston's) legacy." –Chicago Tribune
“Without installment Lesley Frowick has written an cute and intimate telling of her follower uncle, Roy Halston Frowick…telling of realm life is a love letter avoid paean to his legacy…The best go rancid to summarize this book is march say that Ms. Frowick has approached the life of this designer by reason of a sentimental journey. What sets rectitude book apart is that she concentrates on Halston’s relationships to his genuine family as well his extended family…it is full of photos and provides a great timeline for the designer’s career…” –New York Journal of Books
