apparently she really didn t like hats, but felt like as the first lady it was suitable. and i read that halston and jackie o. had the same head size so he was able to try on design the most perfectly coifed and fitted hat for her before sending it to her and he seemed to nail it every time for her. he really wanted to do something different and jackie wanted something different. the pill box hat is a classic signature for us now but back then that was revolutionary. hats were not done in that shape and silhouette. creating that idea for the first lady was something new. that was a risk, wasn t it? a huge risk. and there was a fun little moment in the documentary where he says, it was windy so jackie o put her hand on the hat and created a dent and a lot of people would copy that dent in
house, thank you so much. in a special film, cnn tells the fascinating story of american fashion designer roy hal ston. the iowa native dressed them all. if you ve never heard of his famous pill box hat, chances are you have seen it. he was dealing with the creme day la creme of the women in the world. were you the person who put the pill box on jackie kennedy? yes, i was. that hat was genius, if you look at the inauguration most of those ladies wore a mink coat, jackie was in a cloth coat and a cloth hat. i ll never forget the impact that hat had, even out in montana where i was sitting at the time. it was a windy day, and she put her hand on the hat and it had ayden the in it. during the ceremonies, it had a
beautiful and so stylish and seemed to not sweat the details. she was like american royalty. there was a kind of impeccability about her, but yet it was all so relaxed. simple lines, bright colors, beautiful sorbet colors. her pillbox hat. we still call those collars that she wore, the little rounded collars, jackie kennedy collars. they weren t hers, but she made them hers. it was decluttered. it wasn t fussy or overly feminine. it was just chic. everyone was picking up on how she dressed. people could replicate her style. she was very intelligent about thinking how her style was perceived. she really had a sense of how you could use style from a political point of view to get a message across. when she came to the white house and became first lady, it was very important to her to have an american designer, so she turned to oleg cassini who
roy h. frowick dropped his first and his last names and won fame and fortune as halston. halston was once known primarily as the man who put jackie kennedy into a pillbox hat. halston was an iconic designer of the 1970s. if you looked at clothing and fashion of the 60s and then saw the 70s you were like, this was a radical change. i worked with halston when he was the hotshot movie star fashion designer. his parties were legendary. i knew halston socially. conversations would happen. i was an actor. i wasn t in fashion. he was interested in my opinions because i wasn t in fashion, and he offered me a job being one of his assistants. his staff was very young. we were still connected to the streets. we were still connected to the younger people, not the rich people that were buying his clothes. and that s what we brought as assistants into the house of halston. he had the classicism and he had
roy h. frowick dropped his first and his last names and won fame and fortune as halston. halston was once known primarily as the man who put jackie kennedy into a pillbox hat. halston was an iconic designer of the 1970s. if you looked at clothing and fashion of the 60s and then saw the 70s you were like, this is a radical change. i worked with halston when he was the hotshot movie star fashion designer. his parties were legendary. i knew halston socially. conversations would happen. i was an actor. i wasn t in fashion. he was interested in my opinions because i wasn t in fashion, and he offered me a job being one of his assistants. his staff was very young. we were still connected to the streets. we were still connected to the younger people and not the rich people that were buying his clothes. and that s what we brought as assistants into the house of halston. he had the classicism and he had