it was morning again in america. millions of men and women were going to work. and high up above the streets in his olympic tower, one of america s most celebrated self-made men. the most successful single individual in the history of american fashion. ladies and gentlemen, halston. was nowhere in sight. the question that all of new york was asking last night was whatever happened to halston? it s a story of high fashion and high finance as one of america s big names in
oh, do a donna summers song. i think they lived out a lot of their fantasies as gay boys. hollywood was such a big influence on both andy and halston. i was born in the midwest. i was born in the midwest. much of your life was probably involved in going to the movies on saturdays and sundays. you were at a dinner party and you could have one person to the left and the right who would that be? halston and elizabeth taylor. why? they re both wonderful. they weren t society but they became a new kind of society. suddenly, you know, gays were part of society. many more jews were part of society. a lot of those barriers just fell down. he had his entourage.
just remember him talking and me listening. he d say, i got it, all right, and just put it on you. it danced with you. that s it. his clothes danced with you. we were joined at the hip from then on. it was like my dad in a way because when i was a little girl, my father would give me five costumes every year, and it was a dress from an american in paris. and perfectly made. exactly like for the ladies. and i guess i got into appreciating how clothes could change the way you felt. she dressed only in halston ever. i mean, she still does. yes. liza minnelli. say yes life keeps happening every day and this is halston, who is i
he was talking about going into another business. that s why i started calling him roy. i said you don t own your name, pal. read the small print. we own your name. this was all blowing up. they said to me, i want you to go in and talk to him. i was there that morning. we were sitting in his office until about 1:00, 1:30 in the morning. and he said to me, we can do this. i said we can do what? he said, we can take this over and get it away from the corporation and run it as an i said, halston, it would never work. where is this money going to come from? i said do you know how much money you spend and how luxur- i said just take a look around.
why not give it to a museum? and then there was a bookcase full of videotapes of the shows. we said carl, i want these tapes. he said no, halston has copies. carl said he was going to erase them and sell the blanks to the next tenant. everyone thinks you re an overnight success. i ve worked very hard for 20 years. happy birthday to me there is no home in iowa. woo! vacation isn t about where you are, it s about how you see things. you just have to make home,