“Halston” is the brainchild of Frédéric Tcheng, the French-born documentarian behind 2014’s “Dior and I.” The new documentary, which he wrote and directed, exposes two sides to the American designer.
John Preito/Denver Post/Denver Post via Getty Images Halston redefined the role of the American fashion designer. He was the first to really build a business in the United States to that level, and he was the first to really crash and burn.” “The things that we see today – designers becoming part of large conglomerates or growing their companies so that they’re worth billions of dollars – (were) probably made easier because of Halston’s pioneering efforts. “He was the great shooting star of fashion in the 1970s and early 1980s, but he burned out very quickly too,” says Mears, who curated the designer’s work in the 2015 Museum at FIT exhibition, “Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the ’70s.” Mears tells CNN that America’s first superstar fashion designer – one who brought an unprecedented diversity of racial backgrounds and body shapes to the runway – offered a “cautionary tale.” Pierre Cardin: The 97-year-old fashion designer with visions for 2069īut “Halston” also shows how, in his megalomaniacal desire to “dress all of America,” the designer came undone at the hands of the fashion and business powers he couldn’t bend to his will – and at the hands of his own vices (Halston reportedly spent thousands of dollars a week on cocaine at the height of his power).
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