think today, wouldn t you say, the best-known name you shouldn t say best and worst because then other designers get upset. you re pretty good, halston. thank you. you would always think, how do i go to that next level? there s mink and marigold right outside he was looking for a perfume company. nothing s gained if there s nothing tried every single week he was having meetings with revlon, coudi. mr. bannon of iff. he d like to meet with you today if possible. then finally max factor. and max factor, who s a subsidiary of norton simon. say yes, yes, i can yes, i will i remember halston saying to andy and me, you know, i really like the norton simon people because they re all so tall. david mahoney was the chairman
i saw him frustrated like how can this thing come into my life? i said maybe you have to drop the whole thing and come with me and get out of here. we ll just take a break. and he d say i can t go. they say that when it rains, it pours. well, a perfect storm was about to happen when his good friend threw him into the belly of the whale. the day before the j.c. penney show, david made an offer to buy norton simon. he was going to take it private,
and he can make an awful lot of money doing that. takeover mania in america. huge corporations are gobbling others. made an outside bid that was better. i don t know how halston felt because after he sold him david mahoney was not there. you can not expect other people to be interested in your welfare all the time. you better take care of your own instincts and efforts. dog eat dog. look out for yourself. i really don t mean it, although that s part of it. you know how business is. you know how money is. you know how that is. it s the pollution in the air. esmark wasn t really in the fashion business except maybe
he realized that you need a star in there. what happened was that halston got david mahoney to sponsor the trip, and david loved it. he fit right in there. david mahoney seemed to me to be fairly ambitious socially. like so many self-made people, they wanted to be part of this kind of cafe society. it was a very competitive evening. i think the designers were having difficulty with each other. the french took up all the time for the rehearsal, and we were the addendums. it was rude, actually. their whole presentation was beyond grand. they changed orchestras for each of the different designer segments.
money doing that. takeover mania in america. huge corporations are gobbling one another at a rate unmatched in history. esmark came along out of the blue and made an outside bid that was better than david s and won the battle. i don t know how halston felt because after norton simon sold him david mahoney was not there. you cannot expect other people to be interested in your welfare all the time. it s unfair and it s illogical. so therefore, you d better take care of your own instincts and your own efforts. dog eat dog. look out for yourself. is that what you mean? i really don t mean it, although that s part of it, jane. you know how business is. you know how money is. you know how that is. it s the pollution in the air. esmark wasn t really in the fashion business except maybe