of norton simon. and he was tall, good looking and a lot of glamour. we wanted a top perfume line and he was the hottest thing around. i wanted to 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 designs, you bought everything, for how long? forever. at the time, it seemed like a huge coup.
i think if you know fashion history, would write it, i d like to have a credit point of saying we cleaned it up a little bit. i have a theory that less becomes more so much. halston was a man that i met in my life because? because everything he was doing was great. every time. every time. he astonished me. how do you feel when you walk into a restaurant in new york and a lady comes in looking smashing in a halston outfit? i m very proud. i m just very proud if somebody looks good in it, you know. what if she comes in and doesn t look good in it? then i m not so proud. a halston market is in the better stores across the country. in new york, it s bergdorf goodman where he has a boutique
you don t want to say his name? no. my first day at halston was interesting. i never seen anything quite like it. here i m the kid from brooklyn, right? coming into this world of halston s castle in olympic world. there was a kind of a pinky throw everywhere you went. halston was a little bit hollywood in my parlance, but i
everybody wanted to be at that ball because it was it, you know, as far as where you should go, you know? you would measure your social importance by the invitation, getting one or not getting one. do you know if he was invited to the ball? i would have thought so, but now i have my doubts. i don t know. was he? halston did not have an invite to the ball. we have filmed this black and white ball in color for your enlightenment. good heavens, her comes john kenneth galbraith. the barrenness derothchild.
they bought his name, sold off his life s work for pennies on the dollar, and when that wasn t enough, well, they forced him out of his own office. some will say he had it coming. but what he didn t see coming were the tapes. all 215 of them, erased as per the corporation s order. who am i? just someone working in the archives, nobody important for our story, really. sportswear, knits, broadcloth, men s wear. this is andy warhol s portrait of me. you see, pictures meant everything to halston.