very reverent, just throw everything and the kitchen sink. and by the way, have pat come out of the birthday cake. happy birthday to me happy birthday to me happy birthday happy birthday he took a chance, a leap of faith to be something that maybe a lot of people think they can t do. he would say, you can have anything you want, you re a good person. you know, that feeling that somebody believes in you. and because of that, he made me stronger.
be a one-man show. ridge was promoted and was being in charge of the design. carl was hell bent on isolating halston. he is livid. it s my name on the label. how dare you? it was his company, his people, his workers, everything he was fighting for. and it unravelled into a very unpleasant scenario. let s divide the space up there. this half is halston and this other half is halston 3 with john ridge. at some point, i said no. you can get someone else to do it. at this point, i knew halston pretty well. there was a lot of angst going on. so i had my first meeting with roy. what can i do for you? i d say well, roy, that was the
lot of glamour. he was the hottest thing around. i want top buy the whole thing, just to have him on board for his general knowledge. it seemed like a good match. if he was bought in total under norton simon, he d have the freedom to explore and to develop more of what halston wanted. explain this to me. when you bought halston, you bought the rights to his name, you bought his design. for how long? forever. at the time, it seemed like a huge coup. all his friends, including andy and all of us, were happy for
so halston was put under one of america s toughest bosses according to fortune magazine. this is a little teeny company, sort of a fly speck. so think of it supposing you own the new york yankees and you also owned a class d farm team in bethlehem, pennsylvania. how much time would you spend with your bethlehem, pennsylvania farm team? t of mediterranean flavors, with the gentle bubbles of san pellegrino. add a twist of flavor. san pellegrino essenza. tastefully italian. (michelle) i know what it s like to be in a financially struggling family. we had a lot of leftovers.[chuckles] i couldn t have asked for better parents, but like most people they didn t have anyone to teach them
it off. you never think carl would be with halston. i mean, physically, mentally, anything. when he came in, in a very strange way, halston liked him a lot. he kept saying i have never had the right kind of management. and that s part of our problem. and he gives me a kiss on the forehead. it was wonderful. and then he says you re now the king. and he made with his own hands the crown that he gave me. halston i think honestly believed that carl epstein was going to mediate with big business, but i remember thinking to myself, well, there are two men in this room, but there is only one king at