As the creator of Jackie Kennedy's signature pillbox hat, the designer of choice for Liza Minelli and other sequined celebrities in the 1970s, and the inventor of a deceptively simple yet glamorous approach to women's sportswear, Halston (1932-1990) is recognized as a significant figure in fashion around the world. Halston was a prolific designer whose creations throughout his career spanned the extremes of fashion: from prosaic uniforms for airlines and car rental companies to extravagant party frocks for well-heeled socialites. This is a visual anthology of Halston's life and legacy - a picture-led history of Halston as a fashion innovator. Images and text are organized in rough chronological order, mixing paparazzi shots with catwalk photographs, archival photographs by Andy Warhol, behind-the-scenes images of fashion shows and parties, sketches, and specially-commissioned photographs of Halston collections. A biographical essay introduces the book, and six 600-word texts on different periods of Halston's career are interspersed throughout, along with selected quotes by Halston, his associates, clients and famous friends.
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'Visually, this book is spot-on, Its clean typeface and layouts mirror Halston's honed style... stuffed with lavish, informative pictures.'
About the Author
Steven Bluttal is an independent curator, archivist, and photography editor. He is a former curator of the photographic archive at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and of the Mies van der Rohe archive at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Patricia Mears is assistant curator in the Division of Costumes & Textiles at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, in New York. She teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and is a lecturer and private consultant on costume, textile, and design history.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Nice pictures, strange size,
By Clay in Indy (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Halston (Hardcover)
The book is great if you are just looking for a collection of Halstons's fashion photos. There are really great shots of the clothes, and a lot of the glamorous people that wore them. The book, however, is a really strange size. It's really small, but really thick (6" by 4",and about 3 inches thick). I was anticipating a coffee table type book, but this is too odd of a size to display lying on a table. The text was a bit random and sparse, and the type identifying the photos was difficult to read on several pages. I liked it overall, but it will end up on shelf and I probably won't pick it up very often.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Halston (Hardcover)
WOW. A knock-out! Bluttal has cumulated a splendid chronicle of the career of America's definitive fashion star, Roy Frowick Halston.The book gathers and presents the photographic richness that you must have to know why Halston mattered and continues to. The sequence, arrangement, and ingenious categories all articulate the Halston passion for pure color, form and line that made him legend and attracted the star-studded clientele and the trademarking of his family name as a label still very much in evidence today, a decade after his death. Wistful nostalgia over the Studio 54 years and the innocence of New York in those years are the only drawback of paging through this tome. BRAVO BLUTTAL! Your fat fat fashion clutch should be on every gift list - the best fashion bargain of the year!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
SIZE QUEEN ! great one but tiny,
By gayequalrights "michael" (NYC,USA) - See all my reviews
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The only thing I object to ,is trying to contain HALSTON to a 5 x 7 inch format .Whos idea was that ? The man was large ,the times were large and then This Book is small! RE DO IT ,About the size of interview magazine ,POO POO on the Size
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