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- - It was
- morning again in America.
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- Millions of men and
- women were going to work.
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- 00:00:58,559 --> 00:01:03,397
- And high up above the
- streets, in his Olympic Tower,
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- 00:01:03,564 --> 00:01:06,442
- one of America's most
- celebrated self-made men
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- 00:01:06,609 --> 00:01:08,778
- - The most successful
- single individual
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- in the history of
- American fashion.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, Halston.
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- - Was
- nowhere in sight.
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- 00:01:22,082 --> 00:01:23,751
- - The question that
- all of New York
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- 00:01:23,918 --> 00:01:26,128
- was asking last night was,
- whatever happened to Halston?
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- 00:01:32,301 --> 00:01:34,637
- - It's a story of high
- fashion and high finance,
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- as one of America's
- big names in fashion.
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- 00:01:44,230 --> 00:01:48,150
- - It was business
- as usual, you could say.
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- They bought his name.
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- Sold off his life's work
- for pennies on the dollar.
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- And when that wasn't enough,
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- well, they forced him
- out of his own office.
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- 00:02:06,293 --> 00:02:08,671
- Some will say he had it coming.
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- 00:02:14,301 --> 00:02:17,221
- But what he didn't see
- coming were the tapes.
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- All 215 of them, erased, as
- per the corporation's order.
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- 00:02:32,194 --> 00:02:32,945
- - Liza
- Minnelli in The Act.
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- - Sportswear, knits,
- broadcloth, menswear.
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- This is Andy Warhol's
- portrait of me, which was--
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- - You see, pictures
- meant everything to Halston.
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- 00:02:44,623 --> 00:02:47,209
- - And texture demands texture.
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- 00:02:47,376 --> 00:02:49,128
- - "Life is like
- a picture," he used to say.
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- 00:02:49,295 --> 00:02:51,005
- - Who's that lucky guy?
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- 00:02:52,464 --> 00:02:56,176
- - Well, he
- got his perfect picture.
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- 00:02:56,343 --> 00:02:59,471
- Only the price turned
- out to be a little high.
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- 00:03:17,281 --> 00:03:22,077
- ♪ Fame and fortune ♪
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- 00:03:25,497 --> 00:03:30,294
- ♪ How empty they can be ♪
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- 00:03:32,755 --> 00:03:37,509
- ♪ But when I hold
- you in my arms ♪
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- 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:43,390
- ♪ That's heaven to me ♪
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- 00:03:43,557 --> 00:03:50,022
- ♪ Who cares for
- fame and fortune ♪
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- 00:03:52,942 --> 00:03:57,696
- ♪ They're only passing things ♪
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- 00:04:00,741 --> 00:04:05,496
- ♪ But the touch of
- your lips on mine ♪
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- 00:04:06,872 --> 00:04:11,669
- ♪ Makes me feel like a king ♪
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- 00:04:12,086 --> 00:04:14,922
- ♪ Your kind of love ♪
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- ♪ Is a treasure I hold ♪
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- ♪ It's so much greater ♪
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- ♪ Than silver or gold ♪
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- - It all started
- in September of 1983,
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- 00:04:43,534 --> 00:04:47,371
- when Carl Epstein joined
- Halston Enterprises.
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- 00:04:49,164 --> 00:04:51,166
- He was Halston's new
- corporate manager,
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- and he would be his last.
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- Carl wanted to learn
- everything about Halston,
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- so I brought him the tapes.
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- Who am I?
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- 00:05:03,929 --> 00:05:06,473
- Just someone working
- in the archives.
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- 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,185
- Nobody important for
- our story, really.
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- Our story is Halston.
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- Behind the images flickering
- on the screen, who was Halston?
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- 00:05:21,238 --> 00:05:23,741
- - I'd like to
- go back in time a little bit,
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- to just how you started.
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- I know that you started with
- hats and worked your way.
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- - Oh, I--
- - Were we gonna move this?
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- - That's all right.
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- 00:05:32,750 --> 00:05:33,417
- - Please
- let me know these things.
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- 00:05:37,463 --> 00:05:38,672
- - Are we rolling?
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- 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:40,049
- - Am I--
- - I was straightening the tie.
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- - Okay.
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- I don't mind it being
- a little disheveled.
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- 00:05:43,302 --> 00:05:46,263
- - No, no, it's just--
- - Oh, okay, thanks.
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- Halston was the custom
- milliner at Bergdorf.
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- 00:05:50,934 --> 00:05:53,687
- And we lived around the
- corner from each other.
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- 00:05:53,854 --> 00:05:56,356
- So he and I would walk
- to work every day.
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- We'd be talking,
- gossiping, having fun.
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- He was so much fun.
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- And then the minute we would
- arrive to the building,
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- and you'd have to go
- through the revolving door,
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- 00:06:05,365 --> 00:06:08,494
- suddenly Halston had
- arrived at Bergdorf.
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- And the first time,
- it quite shocked me.
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- And then, of course,
- I understood.
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- He now has put on
- his Halston mask.
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- And the voice would change.
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- Good morning, ladies.
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- He was dealing with
- the creme de la creme
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- of women in the world.
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- - Were
- you the person
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- who put the pillbox
- on Jackie Kennedy?
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- Yes, I was.
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- 00:06:35,562 --> 00:06:37,314
- - That hat was genius.
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- If you look at
- the Inauguration,
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- most of those ladies
- wore a mink coat.
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- Jackie was in a cloth
- coat and a cloth hat.
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- - I'll never forget
- the impact that hat had.
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- Even out in Montana, where
- I was sitting at the time.
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- - It was a very funny story.
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- Because it was a
- rather windy day,
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- and she put her
- hand on the hat,
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- and it ended up to
- have a dent in it.
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- 00:06:58,794 --> 00:07:00,420
- And so when, during
- all the ceremonies,
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- it had a dent in the hat.
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- And everybody who copied
- it put a dent in it,
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- which was so funny.
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- 00:07:07,553 --> 00:07:09,513
- I was quite a young man,
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- but then I became very,
- very famous quickly on that.
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- It was the first time in
- the history of Bergdorf
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- that they promoted a
- designer personality.
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- And I headed a department
- of 150 milliners
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- and 12 sales ladies.
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- 00:07:27,739 --> 00:07:31,285
- - Bergdorf was a
- very rarefied world.
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- But he was born in
- Des Moines, Iowa, as I read,
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- because he never
- told me any of this.
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- Halston was so busy
- moving forward.
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- I knew very little about
- Halston's personal life.
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- 00:07:45,174 --> 00:07:49,261
- Certainly, I didn't know
- much about his background.
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- In November of 1966,
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- there was Truman Capote's
- Black and White Ball.
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- - Everybody wanted to be at
- that ball, because it was it,
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- you know, as far as where
- you should go, you know?
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- 00:08:03,150 --> 00:08:06,904
- You would measure your social
- importance by
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- the invitation, getting
- one or not getting one.
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- 00:08:10,282 --> 00:08:12,159
- - Do you know if
- he was invited to the ball?
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- - I would have thought so,
- but now you, I have, I'm,
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- I have my doubts, I
- don't know, was he?
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- - Halston did not have
- an invite to the ball.
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- - Are you rolling, Harvey?
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- We have filmed this black
- and white ball in color
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- for your enlightenment.
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- 00:08:36,850 --> 00:08:39,770
- Good heavens, here comes
- John Kenneth Galbraith.
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- The Maharani of Baroda is here.
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- 00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:46,568
- And the Baroness de Rothchild,
- and Mrs. Loel Guinness.
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- We only tell you this
- because we know that
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- you were not rich, social,
- or beautiful enough
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- to be invited here tonight.
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- - The irony is
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- Halston had made more
- than 100 masks that night.
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- Kay Graham, who owned
- The Washington Post.
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- 00:09:03,794 --> 00:09:04,795
- Candice Bergen.
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- 00:09:06,046 --> 00:09:08,382
- Of course, D.D. Ryan.
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- 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:12,970
- D.D. Ryan was certainly one
- of the chicest women going.
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- 00:09:13,136 --> 00:09:15,514
- - That's me,
- dancing with Truman
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- 00:09:16,974 --> 00:09:20,269
- in the mask that
- Halston made for me.
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- 00:09:20,435 --> 00:09:24,231
- - D.D. Ryan, former
- editor and fashion legend.
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- 00:09:24,398 --> 00:09:27,317
- She had fallen on hard
- times since the '60s,
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- 00:09:27,484 --> 00:09:29,319
- so Halston gave her a job.
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- 00:09:30,696 --> 00:09:32,364
- - I've known H
- from the beginning.
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- 00:09:32,531 --> 00:09:34,241
- From before the
- beginning, really.
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- 00:09:34,408 --> 00:09:36,493
- Back then, he was
- still a milliner.
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- 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:39,830
- Milliners didn't go
- through the front door.
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- Different world then.
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- 00:09:43,208 --> 00:09:44,334
- - I must have said,
- are you going?
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- 00:09:44,501 --> 00:09:46,378
- And he said, "Oh, yes."
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- That's all I can say.
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- 00:09:49,631 --> 00:09:52,551
- He didn't tell me everything.
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- He wasn't invited by Truman,
- but he got himself there.
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- 00:09:58,015 --> 00:10:00,559
- - Was this Halston?
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- Or this one?
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- 00:10:02,644 --> 00:10:04,521
- Was he even at the ball?
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- 00:10:08,817 --> 00:10:10,819
- He was on everybody's
- face that night.
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- 00:10:10,986 --> 00:10:12,904
- And yet, he was invisible.
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- 00:10:16,116 --> 00:10:17,534
- - He called me
- one day and said,
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- 00:10:17,701 --> 00:10:19,453
- "There's something that
- I need to tell you."
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- 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:23,248
- I was in Southampton, I was
- invited to a very grand dinner.
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- Our hostess is a client,
- and she likes me,
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- 00:10:26,501 --> 00:10:27,669
- and she invited me.
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- 00:10:27,836 --> 00:10:29,713
- And we sat down.
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- 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,591
- And two of the husbands
- never sat down.
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- 00:10:32,758 --> 00:10:35,260
- They stood behind their
- chairs, everybody was seated,
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- 00:10:35,427 --> 00:10:37,012
- and the hostess looked up.
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- 00:10:37,179 --> 00:10:40,098
- And they said, "If these
- two faggots are at table,
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- 00:10:40,265 --> 00:10:42,893
- "we will not be joining
- you for your dinner."
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- 00:10:47,814 --> 00:10:50,901
- He said, "Tom, I just
- need you to understand
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- 00:10:51,068 --> 00:10:52,527
- "that you and I could not hope
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- 00:10:52,694 --> 00:10:56,907
- "to be anything more than
- trained faggot poodles,
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- 00:10:57,074 --> 00:11:01,578
- "to jump through the hoops
- of these rich people."
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- 00:11:06,625 --> 00:11:08,126
- - The mental
- image most people have
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- 00:11:08,293 --> 00:11:11,129
- of a male homosexual looks
- pretty much like this.
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- 00:11:11,296 --> 00:11:14,383
- A man with effeminate
- characteristics.
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- 00:11:14,549 --> 00:11:16,051
- The film you are now watching
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- 00:11:16,218 --> 00:11:18,345
- is purposely being projected
- in its negative form
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- 00:11:18,512 --> 00:11:21,390
- to prevent identification
- of the people it shows.
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- 00:11:21,556 --> 00:11:23,225
- The location is a
- public bathing beach
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- 00:11:23,392 --> 00:11:25,644
- at 21st Street on Miami Beach.
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- 00:11:25,811 --> 00:11:28,105
- The scenes were photographed
- with telescopic lenses
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- 00:11:28,271 --> 00:11:30,357
- from a hidden vantage point.
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- 00:11:30,524 --> 00:11:32,150
- Despite the negative image,
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- 00:11:32,317 --> 00:11:35,779
- the actions themselves
- are easily recognized.
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- 00:11:42,536 --> 00:11:45,789
- - I met Halston at Fire Island.
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- 00:11:45,956 --> 00:11:50,627
- He was just, you know, just
- a fabulous human being.
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- 00:11:51,628 --> 00:11:53,672
- And we became fast friends.
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- 00:11:54,923 --> 00:11:59,428
- ♪ This precious time
- just kept me waiting ♪
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- 00:12:00,971 --> 00:12:06,726
- - The freedom of our sexuality
- there, life before AIDS.
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- 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,650
- Halston and I partied
- a great deal together.
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- 00:12:14,776 --> 00:12:17,070
- ♪ In a brand new groove ♪
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- 00:12:17,237 --> 00:12:19,322
- We would go dancing
- in Harlem.
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- 00:12:19,489 --> 00:12:23,493
- ♪ Don't need your help and
- your tight and old rules ♪
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- 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:27,038
- - It was always
- very, very, very eclectic.
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- 00:12:27,205 --> 00:12:28,206
- - Now!
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- 00:12:29,291 --> 00:12:31,084
- - But the
- '60s in general
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- 00:12:31,251 --> 00:12:34,504
- were a political, moral,
- social revolution.
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- 00:12:37,215 --> 00:12:39,259
- - Halston understood
- that there was
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- 00:12:39,426 --> 00:12:42,429
- a whole new social
- order coming in.
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- 00:12:42,596 --> 00:12:44,598
- The war baby boom came of age.
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- 00:12:44,764 --> 00:12:47,434
- Drugs, sex, and rock and roll.
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- 00:12:47,601 --> 00:12:50,395
- Even the French
- couture changed.
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- 00:12:50,562 --> 00:12:52,397
- St. Laurent,
- Givenchy, and Cardin
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- 00:12:52,564 --> 00:12:54,900
- opened up ready-to-wear
- boutiques.
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- 00:12:55,066 --> 00:12:57,277
- And so, Halston saw
- all of that in Paris,
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- 00:12:57,444 --> 00:13:01,198
- and there was tension
- with the Bergdorf people.
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- 00:13:17,255 --> 00:13:21,176
- - Halston came to see me,
- and he said, "I have backing.
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- 00:13:21,343 --> 00:13:24,137
- "Would you clean up your act?"
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- 00:13:24,304 --> 00:13:26,097
- I was deep into
- drugs by that time.
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- 00:13:26,264 --> 00:13:29,768
- But I did stop
- intravenous drugs
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- 00:13:29,935 --> 00:13:32,229
- and went to work with him.
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- 00:13:32,395 --> 00:13:36,650
- ♪ This the house that
- Jack built, y'all ♪
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- 00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:40,237
- ♪ Remember this house ♪
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- 00:13:40,403 --> 00:13:43,240
- ♪ This was the land
- the he worked by hand ♪
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- 00:13:43,406 --> 00:13:45,867
- - Well, the salon was on
- 68th Street and Madison,
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- 00:13:46,034 --> 00:13:50,247
- in this little, tiny walk-up
- kind of derelict building.
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- 00:13:50,413 --> 00:13:52,958
- Compared to Bergdorf Goodman,
- I thought, like, you know,
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- 00:13:53,124 --> 00:13:55,794
- wow, this is, like,
- didn't feel so fancy.
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- 00:13:55,961 --> 00:13:59,381
- Then you went upstairs, a
- plain door, and you'd knock,
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- 00:13:59,548 --> 00:14:01,007
- and then you'd go in,
- it was just magic.
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- 00:14:01,174 --> 00:14:04,886
- ♪ What is the use of crying ♪
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- 00:14:05,053 --> 00:14:06,888
- - Basically, it was just
- a floor-through apartment
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- 00:14:07,055 --> 00:14:09,349
- that they turned into this
- incredible background,
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- 00:14:09,516 --> 00:14:11,768
- which is all just sort
- of magical and exotic,
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- 00:14:11,935 --> 00:14:13,520
- and you felt like you
- were in an Indian palace
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- 00:14:13,687 --> 00:14:14,771
- or you didn't know
- where you were.
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- 00:14:14,938 --> 00:14:16,398
- You're on safari.
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- 00:14:16,565 --> 00:14:17,899
- It was very wild.
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- 00:14:18,066 --> 00:14:19,276
- And I remember the furniture,
- 225
- 00:14:19,442 --> 00:14:20,402
- because it was
- very uncomfortable.
- 226
- 00:14:20,569 --> 00:14:21,903
- It was horn furniture.
- 227
- 00:14:22,070 --> 00:14:23,405
- Like you sat in them,
- 228
- 00:14:23,572 --> 00:14:24,322
- and you just didn't
- want to sit in them,
- 229
- 00:14:24,489 --> 00:14:26,491
- but it looked great.
- 230
- 00:14:26,658 --> 00:14:28,952
- ♪ In the house that Jack built ♪
- ♪ The house that Jack built ♪
- 231
- 00:14:29,119 --> 00:14:30,328
- ♪ I'm gonn' remember
- this house ♪
- 232
- 00:14:30,495 --> 00:14:31,955
- ♪ The house that Jack built ♪
- 233
- 00:14:32,122 --> 00:14:34,583
- - Halston made the
- atmosphere very democratic.
- 234
- 00:14:34,749 --> 00:14:37,085
- I mean, I'm a poor kid
- from Long Island City.
- 235
- 00:14:37,252 --> 00:14:41,798
- But then there was Marisa
- Berenson and Berry,
- 236
- 00:14:41,965 --> 00:14:43,550
- who grew up in Paris.
- 237
- 00:14:44,968 --> 00:14:46,761
- - It was a mix of
- social circles.
- 238
- 00:14:46,928 --> 00:14:49,389
- And that's what was so
- great about that era,
- 239
- 00:14:49,556 --> 00:14:52,350
- is that it was a big
- mix of interesting,
- 240
- 00:14:52,517 --> 00:14:55,604
- fascinating people.
- 241
- 00:14:55,770 --> 00:14:56,938
- Like Elsa.
- 242
- 00:14:57,105 --> 00:14:59,024
- - I love to be
- with homosexuals.
- 243
- 00:14:59,190 --> 00:15:02,736
- I stay 15 years with
- homosexuals, and I loved them.
- 244
- 00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:05,572
- Because I didn't
- have the lover.
- 245
- 00:15:07,532 --> 00:15:08,742
- - Pat Cleveland was
- discovered on a subway car.
- 246
- 00:15:08,908 --> 00:15:11,036
- - I was still in high school.
- 247
- 00:15:11,202 --> 00:15:13,371
- I went into the room, and
- he looked at me and he said,
- 248
- 00:15:13,538 --> 00:15:17,459
- "Okay, you'll be here
- tomorrow for the show."
- 249
- 00:15:17,626 --> 00:15:20,045
- - He was
- totally laser-focused
- 250
- 00:15:20,211 --> 00:15:21,755
- on this collection
- 251
- 00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:26,343
- because, in his mind, I'm
- sure this was make or break.
- 252
- 00:15:26,509 --> 00:15:28,053
- - All the ladies of
- society were there.
- 253
- 00:15:28,219 --> 00:15:31,014
- The Vogue ladies were
- sitting in the front row.
- 254
- 00:15:31,181 --> 00:15:33,850
- Oh, my goodness, this is
- it, we're doing this show.
- 255
- 00:15:34,017 --> 00:15:35,769
- And he lined us girls up.
- 256
- 00:15:35,935 --> 00:15:37,270
- We were all perfectly dressed.
- 257
- 00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:39,105
- And he would go
- to the first girl,
- 258
- 00:15:39,272 --> 00:15:41,316
- and he'd whisper
- something into their ear.
- 259
- 00:15:41,483 --> 00:15:44,611
- And he'd say, "Now, don't
- forget, you're the best."
- 260
- 00:15:55,997 --> 00:15:59,334
- ♪ And what costume shall
- the poor girl wear ♪
- 261
- 00:15:59,501 --> 00:16:02,045
- - His clothes hit
- me like, this is it.
- 262
- 00:16:02,212 --> 00:16:05,632
- This is the fashion that
- I would want to wear.
- 263
- 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:09,302
- ♪ To all tomorrow's parties ♪
- 264
- 00:16:09,469 --> 00:16:10,804
- - No zippers.
- 265
- 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:13,306
- Just get in and
- out over your head.
- 266
- 00:16:13,473 --> 00:16:14,808
- ♪ A hand-me-down dress ♪
- 267
- 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:16,434
- - Overnight success.
- 268
- 00:16:16,601 --> 00:16:18,561
- It was a clean look.
- 269
- 00:16:18,728 --> 00:16:23,817
- The simplicity was really
- needed after the '60s.
- 270
- 00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:28,071
- And it was all-American,
- from an all-American boy.
- 271
- 00:16:33,785 --> 00:16:35,078
- - Let's meet our
- first challenger.
- 272
- 00:16:35,245 --> 00:16:37,497
- So, will you enter
- and sign in, please?
- 273
- 00:16:40,625 --> 00:16:41,960
- Mr. X.
- 274
- 00:16:47,757 --> 00:16:49,467
- Panel, this is Mr. X,
- 275
- 00:16:49,634 --> 00:16:52,387
- and may I tell you that Mr. X
- is concerned with a product.
- 276
- 00:16:52,554 --> 00:16:55,014
- And now let's show our
- audience just who our guest is
- 277
- 00:16:55,181 --> 00:16:56,975
- and what his product is.
- 278
- 00:17:03,064 --> 00:17:06,276
- - Can I rule out that
- your name is Valentino?
- 279
- 00:17:06,443 --> 00:17:08,194
- - You can rule that out.
- 280
- 00:17:08,361 --> 00:17:09,988
- - All right, no, no, I'm sure
- if I hear the name, I'll know.
- 281
- 00:17:10,155 --> 00:17:11,698
- It's because I don't
- recognize you on site.
- 282
- 00:17:11,865 --> 00:17:16,327
- But would the clothing be
- the new sensation hot pants?
- 283
- 00:17:16,494 --> 00:17:17,412
- - That's it!
- - Yes.
- 284
- 00:17:17,579 --> 00:17:18,371
- - Is that right?
- 285
- 00:17:27,797 --> 00:17:30,550
- - Felt like the beginning
- because he was so enthusiastic,
- 286
- 00:17:30,717 --> 00:17:34,429
- and everybody was so charmed
- with him, and so young,
- 287
- 00:17:34,596 --> 00:17:36,014
- and it was enticing.
- 288
- 00:17:36,181 --> 00:17:39,058
- You just wanted to be
- in the room with him.
- 289
- 00:17:40,143 --> 00:17:41,436
- - I was 18.
- 290
- 00:17:41,603 --> 00:17:43,021
- I was so innocent.
- 291
- 00:17:43,188 --> 00:17:44,314
- I knew nothing.
- 292
- 00:17:46,232 --> 00:17:48,318
- I was from the Midwest.
- 293
- 00:17:48,485 --> 00:17:50,612
- Everyone was unusual for me.
- 294
- 00:17:50,779 --> 00:17:51,863
- Like Pat Ast.
- 295
- 00:17:53,156 --> 00:17:56,659
- She was an Andy Warhol
- superstar with frizzy hair.
- 296
- 00:17:56,826 --> 00:17:59,662
- ♪ I'm just wild about Andy ♪
- 297
- 00:17:59,829 --> 00:18:02,874
- ♪ And Andy's wild about me ♪
- 298
- 00:18:03,041 --> 00:18:07,712
- ♪ The heavenly blisses
- of his kisses ♪
- 299
- 00:18:07,879 --> 00:18:11,591
- ♪ They fill me with ecstasy ♪
- 300
- 00:18:11,758 --> 00:18:13,301
- - This was definitely
- the in crowd.
- 301
- 00:18:13,468 --> 00:18:15,136
- Andy kept saying, "Oh,
- this is, you know,
- 302
- 00:18:15,303 --> 00:18:16,304
- "this is so in, Bob.
- 303
- 00:18:16,471 --> 00:18:17,680
- "This is so in."
- 304
- 00:18:19,641 --> 00:18:22,018
- He knew Halston from the 1950s,
- 305
- 00:18:22,185 --> 00:18:26,481
- when Andy was doing ads
- and windows for Bergdorf's.
- 306
- 00:18:26,648 --> 00:18:28,775
- He was comfortable in
- the world of fashion.
- 307
- 00:18:28,942 --> 00:18:30,819
- ♪ Wild about me ♪
- 308
- 00:18:44,624 --> 00:18:47,043
- - Joe was not
- only the illustrator,
- 309
- 00:18:47,210 --> 00:18:48,837
- but a close friend.
- 310
- 00:18:49,003 --> 00:18:52,799
- You know, Halston was very
- cool, and Joe was very hot.
- 311
- 00:18:56,302 --> 00:18:57,762
- - He was drawn to people
- 312
- 00:18:57,929 --> 00:19:00,557
- who just displayed
- their emotions.
- 313
- 00:19:00,723 --> 00:19:04,352
- And also, have this
- tremendous aesthetic side.
- 314
- 00:19:08,398 --> 00:19:11,609
- - And he believed so
- much on me, Halston.
- 315
- 00:19:11,776 --> 00:19:15,071
- - Elsa would be there
- drawing things all the time.
- 316
- 00:19:15,238 --> 00:19:18,491
- And Halston said, "You need
- to be a jewelry designer."
- 317
- 00:19:18,658 --> 00:19:21,494
- And somehow she made this
- jewelry for us, which is,
- 318
- 00:19:21,661 --> 00:19:24,747
- I had two of these,
- one was stolen.
- 319
- 00:19:24,914 --> 00:19:25,832
- - Why I did do jewelry?
- 320
- 00:19:25,999 --> 00:19:28,459
- I just was trapped into it.
- 321
- 00:19:28,626 --> 00:19:32,589
- I did something for fun,
- it became a success.
- 322
- 00:19:32,755 --> 00:19:34,424
- - Really?
- 323
- 00:19:35,592 --> 00:19:36,551
- - We were hipsters.
- 324
- 00:19:36,718 --> 00:19:38,094
- We thought we were.
- 325
- 00:19:38,261 --> 00:19:41,264
- We probably weren't
- at all, but, you know.
- 326
- 00:19:41,431 --> 00:19:44,017
- My husband, Bill, was
- starting to work at Halston's.
- 327
- 00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:46,561
- They got along
- really well together.
- 328
- 00:19:46,728 --> 00:19:49,022
- In the beginning, he
- couldn't wait to go to work.
- 329
- 00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:51,983
- And that's a great
- feeling, isn't it?
- 330
- 00:19:53,151 --> 00:19:56,112
- - Bill Dugan
- was the first disciple.
- 331
- 00:19:56,279 --> 00:20:00,408
- And 12 years later, he was
- still spreading the gospel.
- 332
- 00:20:00,575 --> 00:20:03,536
- - If you want to understand
- Halston's clothes,
- 333
- 00:20:03,703 --> 00:20:06,164
- you have to understand
- the lineage first.
- 334
- 00:20:06,331 --> 00:20:08,917
- You see, when he
- did his first line,
- 335
- 00:20:09,083 --> 00:20:10,418
- I think he was the
- first to be surprised
- 336
- 00:20:10,585 --> 00:20:13,379
- at how good he really was.
- 337
- 00:20:13,546 --> 00:20:17,967
- The other who was surprised,
- of course, was his mentor.
- 338
- 00:20:22,889 --> 00:20:25,808
- - Oh, I think perhaps
- Charles James,
- 339
- 00:20:25,975 --> 00:20:27,602
- who was a friend of mine.
- 340
- 00:20:31,606 --> 00:20:33,274
- - Charles James is
- such an amazing figure.
- 341
- 00:20:33,441 --> 00:20:34,692
- Difficult, controversial.
- 342
- 00:20:34,859 --> 00:20:35,818
- But he's one of
- these people that,
- 343
- 00:20:35,985 --> 00:20:37,487
- he was so amazingly talented.
- 344
- 00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:40,782
- ♪ I know what it
- is to be young ♪
- 345
- 00:20:40,949 --> 00:20:42,325
- - Even the
- Europeans understood
- 346
- 00:20:42,492 --> 00:20:45,078
- that Charles James
- was a singular genius.
- 347
- 00:20:45,244 --> 00:20:46,913
- ♪ You don't know what it is ♪
- 348
- 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,831
- ♪ To be old ♪
- 349
- 00:20:48,998 --> 00:20:51,334
- - Halston had this
- incredible fascination,
- 350
- 00:20:51,501 --> 00:20:54,462
- and I would say envy
- of Charles James.
- 351
- 00:20:54,629 --> 00:20:58,383
- ♪ You'll be saying
- the same thing ♪
- 352
- 00:20:58,549 --> 00:21:00,134
- - He mimicked Charles.
- 353
- 00:21:00,301 --> 00:21:01,594
- Charles would say things like,
- 354
- 00:21:01,761 --> 00:21:04,263
- "You're only as good
- as who you dress."
- 355
- 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:06,099
- And suddenly
- Halston was saying,
- 356
- 00:21:06,265 --> 00:21:09,185
- "You're only as good
- as who you dress."
- 357
- 00:21:10,311 --> 00:21:12,271
- ♪ I've asked so
- many questions ♪
- 358
- 00:21:12,438 --> 00:21:14,190
- - In the late '60s,
- 359
- 00:21:14,357 --> 00:21:17,527
- Charles James was really out
- of his luck, and he owed money.
- 360
- 00:21:17,694 --> 00:21:19,612
- And he really wasn't designing.
- 361
- 00:21:19,779 --> 00:21:21,698
- ♪ Find all the answers ♪
- 362
- 00:21:21,864 --> 00:21:23,074
- - It's true that you're
- considering going on welfare,
- 363
- 00:21:23,241 --> 00:21:24,575
- isn't it?
- - Yes, it is.
- 364
- 00:21:24,742 --> 00:21:26,452
- In order to get my
- doctor's bills paid.
- 365
- 00:21:26,619 --> 00:21:27,578
- It's just the most shocking--
- 366
- 00:21:27,745 --> 00:21:29,163
- - Halston felt for him.
- 367
- 00:21:29,330 --> 00:21:31,916
- ♪ There'll be
- days to remember ♪
- 368
- 00:21:32,083 --> 00:21:33,626
- - So he
- hired Charles James
- 369
- 00:21:33,793 --> 00:21:36,254
- to help him with a collection.
- 370
- 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:01,154
- - James's working
- methodology was overworking
- 371
- 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,614
- and overworking the same idea,
- 372
- 00:22:03,781 --> 00:22:06,826
- and creating things that were
- so incredibly complicated
- 373
- 00:22:06,993 --> 00:22:09,203
- that it simply wasn't viable.
- 374
- 00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:15,001
- - Charles was furious
- throughout the whole thing
- 375
- 00:22:15,168 --> 00:22:16,669
- 'cause it wasn't right.
- 376
- 00:22:16,836 --> 00:22:20,256
- Charles wanted control,
- Halston wanted control.
- 377
- 00:22:20,423 --> 00:22:24,343
- It was almost like father
- and rebellious son.
- 378
- 00:22:24,510 --> 00:22:25,470
- It was a disaster, by the way.
- 379
- 00:22:25,636 --> 00:22:27,180
- The collection was a disaster.
- 380
- 00:22:27,346 --> 00:22:28,681
- - The few pieces that I've seen
- 381
- 00:22:28,848 --> 00:22:30,933
- look a little
- tortured, frankly.
- 382
- 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:32,727
- Very typical of James's work,
- 383
- 00:22:32,894 --> 00:22:35,104
- where he would take fabric
- and twist it and torque it.
- 384
- 00:22:35,271 --> 00:22:37,690
- And in the end result, you had
- things that looked amazing,
- 385
- 00:22:37,857 --> 00:22:40,318
- in a way, but
- somehow unwearable.
- 386
- 00:22:42,445 --> 00:22:44,781
- - Halston said, "Well, I
- just want you to know that,
- 387
- 00:22:44,947 --> 00:22:47,158
- "you know, I'm locking
- Charles out of the workroom."
- 388
- 00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:55,249
- - Halston is a
- middle-of-the-road man,
- 389
- 00:22:55,416 --> 00:23:00,630
- who would be better as a buyer
- in a store, or a stylist.
- 390
- 00:23:02,006 --> 00:23:07,470
- He knows how to select
- good things to copy.
- 391
- 00:23:07,637 --> 00:23:11,808
- But his passion has been
- to put his name on it.
- 392
- 00:23:11,974 --> 00:23:18,147
- For which action, the word
- plagiarism is correct.
- 393
- 00:23:21,776 --> 00:23:23,444
- - Halston didn't copy.
- 394
- 00:23:23,611 --> 00:23:26,030
- Eventually, I went
- to work for Halston,
- 395
- 00:23:26,197 --> 00:23:32,161
- and I saw that Halston took
- concepts of Charles James
- 396
- 00:23:32,328 --> 00:23:33,663
- and relaxed them.
- 397
- 00:23:36,791 --> 00:23:39,210
- His clothes were
- for a modern time.
- 398
- 00:23:39,377 --> 00:23:41,504
- For a time where
- women's lifestyle
- 399
- 00:23:41,671 --> 00:23:43,256
- had changed completely.
- 400
- 00:23:43,422 --> 00:23:44,382
- I mean, he understood that.
- 401
- 00:23:50,805 --> 00:23:52,348
- - Elegance and ease.
- 402
- 00:23:54,308 --> 00:23:58,896
- A sense of owning power,
- without being masculine.
- 403
- 00:24:00,148 --> 00:24:02,984
- And honoring the
- body that you have.
- 404
- 00:24:04,819 --> 00:24:08,197
- Basically, you were
- usually naked underneath.
- 405
- 00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:11,075
- - You were free
- inside your clothes.
- 406
- 00:24:14,745 --> 00:24:17,206
- - He took away the cage.
- 407
- 00:24:17,373 --> 00:24:18,749
- And he made things
- 408
- 00:24:18,916 --> 00:24:21,836
- as though you didn't
- really need the structure
- 409
- 00:24:22,003 --> 00:24:24,589
- as much as you
- needed the woman.
- 410
- 00:24:24,755 --> 00:24:29,177
- He really based most of his
- collection on most of us girls.
- 411
- 00:24:29,343 --> 00:24:30,845
- - I think maybe we just had
- a pin there to hold it up,
- 412
- 00:24:31,012 --> 00:24:32,013
- it might be good, huh?
- 413
- 00:24:32,180 --> 00:24:33,514
- - Mm-hmm.
- 414
- 00:24:33,681 --> 00:24:36,142
- - Let's see you turn
- in it, Chrissy, huh?
- 415
- 00:24:36,309 --> 00:24:40,354
- - Fabric to Halston was
- like clay to a sculptor.
- 416
- 00:24:40,521 --> 00:24:43,024
- He knew how to use it.
- 417
- 00:24:43,191 --> 00:24:47,528
- And everything was cut on
- the bias, so it spiraled.
- 418
- 00:24:47,695 --> 00:24:49,197
- - Basically,
- bias is cutting fabric
- 419
- 00:24:49,363 --> 00:24:52,241
- on an oblique, or
- 45-degree angle.
- 420
- 00:24:52,408 --> 00:24:54,577
- Fabric is usually cut
- on the straight grain.
- 421
- 00:24:54,744 --> 00:24:55,828
- If you've ever cut
- something on the bias,
- 422
- 00:24:55,995 --> 00:24:57,788
- it flows over the body.
- 423
- 00:24:57,955 --> 00:25:00,458
- It opens up, if you will.
- 424
- 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:02,376
- - It's very hard to do it.
- 425
- 00:25:02,543 --> 00:25:03,794
- Nothing is straight.
- 426
- 00:25:03,961 --> 00:25:06,839
- It's very hard to
- sew, everything moves.
- 427
- 00:25:07,006 --> 00:25:09,842
- Especially on chiffon,
- it's very hard to control.
- 428
- 00:25:10,009 --> 00:25:12,678
- But he made it so easy.
- 429
- 00:25:12,845 --> 00:25:15,348
- - He just would throw a
- piece of fabric on the floor,
- 430
- 00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:17,266
- and cut through it.
- 431
- 00:25:17,433 --> 00:25:21,520
- Pick it up, throw it on you,
- and then, pfft, it was a dress.
- 432
- 00:25:22,897 --> 00:25:24,106
- - That's genius.
- 433
- 00:25:25,441 --> 00:25:26,400
- It's a dress.
- 434
- 00:25:26,567 --> 00:25:28,736
- Just from the way he cut it.
- 435
- 00:25:28,903 --> 00:25:30,571
- I don't know anybody
- who could do that.
- 436
- 00:25:30,738 --> 00:25:31,948
- He's the only one.
- 437
- 00:25:55,596 --> 00:25:58,724
- - That's probably the
- largest Halston collection
- 438
- 00:25:58,891 --> 00:26:02,019
- of all the museums
- in the States.
- 439
- 00:26:02,186 --> 00:26:03,437
- When I started working here,
- 440
- 00:26:03,604 --> 00:26:05,564
- I started really
- looking at the clothes.
- 441
- 00:26:05,731 --> 00:26:09,860
- And I'm most fascinated with
- the single-seam patterns.
- 442
- 00:26:11,904 --> 00:26:13,656
- Similar to the one
- that's up there,
- 443
- 00:26:13,823 --> 00:26:15,157
- which looks like a painting,
- 444
- 00:26:15,324 --> 00:26:17,994
- is actually the
- pattern for that dress.
- 445
- 00:26:19,078 --> 00:26:20,329
- It's really hard
- to see it, flat.
- 446
- 00:26:20,496 --> 00:26:24,125
- But, and just spirals.
- 447
- 00:26:24,875 --> 00:26:26,210
- And this is another one
- 448
- 00:26:26,377 --> 00:26:29,880
- that is cut from one
- piece of fabric, folded.
- 449
- 00:26:30,047 --> 00:26:34,510
- You cut out the neck, and the
- seam goes from here to here,
- 450
- 00:26:34,677 --> 00:26:36,846
- down the side, and then across.
- 451
- 00:26:37,013 --> 00:26:38,973
- It's one piece of fabric.
- 452
- 00:26:39,140 --> 00:26:41,017
- The pattern looks like
- a Cuisinart blade.
- 453
- 00:26:44,687 --> 00:26:47,189
- Very much like the art, at
- the time, like abstract art.
- 454
- 00:26:47,356 --> 00:26:51,736
- It was reducing it down to
- its least common denominators.
- 455
- 00:26:55,656 --> 00:26:57,366
- - I think if fashion
- history would write it,
- 456
- 00:26:57,533 --> 00:26:59,660
- I'd like to have a
- credit point of saying
- 457
- 00:26:59,827 --> 00:27:01,954
- maybe we cleaned it up
- a bit, where, you know,
- 458
- 00:27:02,121 --> 00:27:04,165
- I have a theory that less
- becomes more, so much.
- 459
- 00:27:04,332 --> 00:27:05,041
- - Uh-huh.
- 460
- 00:27:06,792 --> 00:27:09,086
- - I felt more
- intimidated by Halston
- 461
- 00:27:09,253 --> 00:27:12,423
- than by whatever man
- I met in my life.
- 462
- 00:27:12,590 --> 00:27:14,008
- - Because?
- 463
- 00:27:14,175 --> 00:27:16,552
- - Because everything
- he was doing was great.
- 464
- 00:27:16,719 --> 00:27:18,387
- Every time, every time.
- 465
- 00:27:19,764 --> 00:27:21,057
- He astonished me.
- 466
- 00:27:22,183 --> 00:27:23,768
- - How do
- you feel when you, say,
- 467
- 00:27:23,934 --> 00:27:25,519
- walk into a restaurant in
- New York, and a lady comes in
- 468
- 00:27:25,686 --> 00:27:28,022
- looking smashing in
- a Halston outfit?
- 469
- 00:27:28,189 --> 00:27:30,691
- - I'm very proud.
- 470
- 00:27:30,858 --> 00:27:34,570
- I'm just very proud if somebody
- looks good in it, you know?
- 471
- 00:27:34,737 --> 00:27:35,654
- - What
- if she comes in
- 472
- 00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:38,032
- and doesn't look good in it?
- 473
- 00:27:38,199 --> 00:27:41,410
- Then I'm not so
- proud.
- 474
- 00:27:42,745 --> 00:27:44,163
- - The Halston market
- 475
- 00:27:44,330 --> 00:27:45,915
- is in the better stores
- across the country.
- 476
- 00:27:46,082 --> 00:27:47,458
- In New York, it's
- Bergdorf Goodman,
- 477
- 00:27:47,625 --> 00:27:49,293
- where he has a boutique
- 478
- 00:27:49,460 --> 00:27:52,046
- in the same spot he started
- selling hats to rich ladies
- 479
- 00:27:52,213 --> 00:27:53,839
- 15 years ago.
- 480
- 00:27:54,006 --> 00:27:55,925
- This is Halston off the rack.
- 481
- 00:27:56,092 --> 00:27:57,510
- The favorite item?
- 482
- 00:27:57,676 --> 00:28:00,429
- An Ultrasuede shirt dress
- with a $200 price tag
- 483
- 00:28:00,596 --> 00:28:03,808
- that has broken all
- previous sales records.
- 484
- 00:28:05,226 --> 00:28:06,435
- - You're late.
- 485
- 00:28:06,602 --> 00:28:07,895
- My god, are you ever
- on time, come on.
- 486
- 00:28:08,062 --> 00:28:09,814
- - But for
- real extravagance,
- 487
- 00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:12,233
- the ladies come to Halston's
- own showroom on Madison Avenue,
- 488
- 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,735
- where super saleswoman Pat Ast
- 489
- 00:28:14,902 --> 00:28:17,655
- will give them that
- special treatment.
- 490
- 00:28:17,822 --> 00:28:19,240
- - What
- about Pat Ast?
- 491
- 00:28:19,407 --> 00:28:21,367
- Some people have suggested
- that by using her,
- 492
- 00:28:21,534 --> 00:28:24,370
- you're putting
- down fashion a bit.
- 493
- 00:28:24,537 --> 00:28:26,997
- - Well, if you think
- that Patty is a put-down,
- 494
- 00:28:27,164 --> 00:28:28,124
- but I don't think so.
- 495
- 00:28:28,290 --> 00:28:30,209
- I take her very seriously.
- 496
- 00:28:30,376 --> 00:28:33,087
- And I like to make
- her glamorous.
- 497
- 00:28:33,254 --> 00:28:36,132
- - Halston designs things that
- are made especially for me,
- 498
- 00:28:36,298 --> 00:28:39,135
- which is the most incredible
- thing, 'cause looking at me,
- 499
- 00:28:39,301 --> 00:28:42,304
- you know I'm not the
- normal size woman.
- 500
- 00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:45,516
- - I think he appreciated
- the woman's body.
- 501
- 00:28:45,683 --> 00:28:48,978
- I think he appreciated all
- the different types of women.
- 502
- 00:28:49,145 --> 00:28:52,064
- He loved all of the
- diversity of his models.
- 503
- 00:28:52,231 --> 00:28:53,899
- - If you take this down, Iman.
- - Yeah.
- 504
- 00:28:54,066 --> 00:28:56,610
- - And you turn around, that
- way so you see a decollete.
- 505
- 00:28:56,777 --> 00:28:58,904
- This is Iman's first show.
- 506
- 00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:00,656
- She's never been in a
- fashion show before.
- 507
- 00:29:00,823 --> 00:29:03,617
- How do you feel about your
- first fashion show, Iman?
- 508
- 00:29:03,784 --> 00:29:05,161
- - I'm very nervous.
- 509
- 00:29:10,207 --> 00:29:12,668
- - He always loved
- different personalities.
- 510
- 00:29:12,835 --> 00:29:14,336
- And he encouraged that.
- 511
- 00:29:14,503 --> 00:29:16,046
- - Do you think that models
- are some of the sexy,
- 512
- 00:29:16,213 --> 00:29:17,631
- most beautiful
- girls in the world?
- 513
- 00:29:17,798 --> 00:29:19,300
- - Sometimes.
- 514
- 00:29:19,467 --> 00:29:20,426
- - Do you think they should
- all be in the movies?
- 515
- 00:29:20,593 --> 00:29:22,261
- - No.
- 516
- 00:29:22,428 --> 00:29:25,556
- - He also loved the
- idea of being controversial.
- 517
- 00:29:25,723 --> 00:29:27,391
- I remember the Coty Award Show,
- 518
- 00:29:27,558 --> 00:29:31,770
- he decided it was gonna be a
- happening, so anything goes.
- 519
- 00:29:31,937 --> 00:29:32,897
- - Tell me something.
- 520
- 00:29:33,063 --> 00:29:34,565
- - I'm gonna tell you.
- 521
- 00:29:34,732 --> 00:29:36,358
- I hope that show goes
- better than the rehearsal.
- 522
- 00:29:36,525 --> 00:29:40,446
- - All the fashion world is
- waiting for the Coty Awards.
- 523
- 00:29:40,613 --> 00:29:41,906
- - The audience
- in the Coty Awards
- 524
- 00:29:42,072 --> 00:29:44,158
- tend to be a
- little more formal.
- 525
- 00:29:44,325 --> 00:29:47,203
- But Halston wanted to
- be very irreverent.
- 526
- 00:29:47,369 --> 00:29:50,247
- - Andy and Halston
- came up with this idea
- 527
- 00:29:50,414 --> 00:29:54,585
- that it was like a talent
- show, Halston's Talent Hour.
- 528
- 00:30:01,717 --> 00:30:03,469
- I played the clarinet.
- 529
- 00:30:03,636 --> 00:30:06,555
- He said, "What can
- you do?"
- 530
- 00:30:06,722 --> 00:30:08,390
- "What else can you do?"
- 531
- 00:30:11,852 --> 00:30:13,896
- ♪ Oh yeah ♪
- 532
- 00:30:15,397 --> 00:30:18,067
- - The audience, they didn't
- know what to make of it.
- 533
- 00:30:21,111 --> 00:30:23,155
- Halston wanted it to be,
- just throw everything in,
- 534
- 00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:24,907
- including the kitchen sink.
- 535
- 00:30:25,074 --> 00:30:29,245
- And by the way, have Pat come
- out of the birthday cake.
- 536
- 00:30:30,746 --> 00:30:33,958
- ♪ Ah ah ah ah ah ♪
- 537
- 00:30:34,124 --> 00:30:38,295
- ♪ Happy birthday to me ♪
- 538
- 00:30:38,462 --> 00:30:42,758
- ♪ Happy birthday to me ♪
- 539
- 00:30:42,925 --> 00:30:46,762
- ♪ Happy birthday,
- happy birthday ♪
- 540
- 00:30:55,104 --> 00:30:58,274
- - He took a chance, a leap
- of faith to be something
- 541
- 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,152
- that maybe a lot of people
- think they can't do.
- 542
- 00:31:06,448 --> 00:31:09,493
- He would say, "You can
- have anything you want.
- 543
- 00:31:09,660 --> 00:31:12,079
- "You're a good person."
- 544
- 00:31:12,246 --> 00:31:14,582
- You know, that feeling that
- somebody believes in you.
- 545
- 00:31:14,748 --> 00:31:16,208
- You know?
- 546
- 00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:20,004
- And because of that, you
- know, he made me stronger.
- 547
- 00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:30,472
- Waterproof.
- 548
- 00:31:35,644 --> 00:31:39,106
- I remember one time we
- went out West to do a show,
- 549
- 00:31:39,273 --> 00:31:41,150
- and Halston said, "I
- want you to come with me.
- 550
- 00:31:41,317 --> 00:31:43,611
- I wanna see something."
- 551
- 00:31:43,777 --> 00:31:45,529
- He rented a car.
- 552
- 00:31:45,696 --> 00:31:49,199
- And you never saw him drive
- 'cause we'd always be in limos.
- 553
- 00:31:49,366 --> 00:31:53,245
- And we went way out in the
- middle of nowhere, out there.
- 554
- 00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:54,955
- Not a lot to look
- at.
- 555
- 00:31:55,122 --> 00:31:56,165
- Sky and earth.
- 556
- 00:32:00,753 --> 00:32:02,254
- And he said, "That's
- where I grew up.
- 557
- 00:32:02,421 --> 00:32:04,256
- "This is where I grew up."
- 558
- 00:32:04,423 --> 00:32:05,883
- And we'd be in the
- middle of nowhere.
- 559
- 00:32:06,050 --> 00:32:09,345
- Just, like, farms, with
- the big rolls of hay.
- 560
- 00:32:09,511 --> 00:32:14,350
- He said, "I just wanted
- to come by here."
- 561
- 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,858
- - I only lived in Iowa for
- about five minutes, you know.
- 562
- 00:32:23,025 --> 00:32:25,069
- I mean, I moved out of
- Iowa as a young man.
- 563
- 00:32:25,235 --> 00:32:26,737
- It was during the
- Second World War,
- 564
- 00:32:26,904 --> 00:32:28,155
- and my father was in a business
- 565
- 00:32:28,322 --> 00:32:30,282
- that took us from
- one place to another,
- 566
- 00:32:30,449 --> 00:32:31,992
- so I lived in the
- Lake of the Ozarks,
- 567
- 00:32:32,159 --> 00:32:34,995
- and I lived in Kentucky,
- and I lived in Missouri,
- 568
- 00:32:35,162 --> 00:32:37,623
- and then we finally
- settled in Indiana.
- 569
- 00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:39,083
- So I was all over, you know.
- 570
- 00:32:39,249 --> 00:32:42,044
- It was sort of an
- unsettled time.
- 571
- 00:32:42,211 --> 00:32:44,380
- - When
- you do go back home--
- 572
- 00:32:44,546 --> 00:32:46,882
- - There is no home
- in Iowa, you see?
- 573
- 00:32:47,049 --> 00:32:48,967
- What else do you think
- we should go over?
- 574
- 00:32:49,134 --> 00:32:50,761
- - Just a
- little bit of the history.
- 575
- 00:32:50,928 --> 00:32:52,638
- I think that would be good
- for us to have and so forth.
- 576
- 00:32:52,805 --> 00:32:54,640
- - Oh, let's not go into the
- whole history crap, you know.
- 577
- 00:32:54,807 --> 00:32:55,974
- What about right now?
- 578
- 00:32:56,141 --> 00:32:57,559
- - But
- this is history.
- 579
- 00:32:57,726 --> 00:33:00,437
- - The past just doesn't
- interest me so much.
- 580
- 00:33:00,604 --> 00:33:04,274
- I think you have pretty much,
- I think you have enough.
- 581
- 00:33:04,441 --> 00:33:05,818
- - And
- we need a transcript
- 582
- 00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:07,444
- as soon as possible.
- 583
- 00:33:42,938 --> 00:33:44,565
- - His mother would
- come and visit,
- 584
- 00:33:44,732 --> 00:33:47,401
- and she always
- called him Hahl-ston.
- 585
- 00:33:48,861 --> 00:33:52,322
- And he had changed the
- pronunciation to Hall-ston,
- 586
- 00:33:52,489 --> 00:33:54,366
- but she would correct you.
- 587
- 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:58,454
- "His name is Hahl-ston,
- it's a family name."
- 588
- 00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:02,249
- She also used to say
- Hahl-ston had disappeared,
- 589
- 00:34:03,459 --> 00:34:07,296
- but Hall-ston was a force
- to be reckoned with.
- 590
- 00:34:12,384 --> 00:34:16,346
- And this is the manager
- of the boutique.
- 591
- 00:34:16,513 --> 00:34:19,892
- Ed was just as
- handsome as Halston.
- 592
- 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:25,063
- And had just as much charisma.
- 593
- 00:34:30,110 --> 00:34:32,029
- - Ed Austin.
- 594
- 00:34:33,572 --> 00:34:35,282
- - Never mentioned his dad,
- 595
- 00:34:35,449 --> 00:34:38,702
- but he called his mom every
- week, every Monday afternoon.
- 596
- 00:34:38,869 --> 00:34:40,579
- Hallie Mae.
- 597
- 00:34:40,746 --> 00:34:43,457
- I'm being careful
- about what I'm saying.
- 598
- 00:34:43,624 --> 00:34:45,751
- I don't know how much
- you know about me.
- 599
- 00:34:45,918 --> 00:34:48,962
- - I didn't know it at
- the time, but apparently,
- 600
- 00:34:49,129 --> 00:34:52,549
- Halston and Ed had had
- a relationship earlier.
- 601
- 00:34:55,344 --> 00:34:56,762
- - I was kept hidden.
- 602
- 00:34:56,929 --> 00:34:58,889
- I still don't know why.
- 603
- 00:34:59,056 --> 00:35:01,350
- I would go to his
- house at night.
- 604
- 00:35:01,517 --> 00:35:03,018
- The doorman would
- stop me and say,
- 605
- 00:35:03,185 --> 00:35:06,522
- "The deliveries go in the
- back," that sort of thing.
- 606
- 00:35:08,732 --> 00:35:11,235
- We had a wonderful
- relationship.
- 607
- 00:35:11,401 --> 00:35:15,697
- He used to call me the crown
- prince, and he was the king.
- 608
- 00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:18,033
- - When did it end?
- 609
- 00:35:19,827 --> 00:35:22,162
- - One Christmas,
- 610
- 00:35:22,329 --> 00:35:25,707
- Ed had done this absolutely
- beautiful window.
- 611
- 00:35:27,376 --> 00:35:32,422
- And that was the day that
- Victor Hugo took over.
- 612
- 00:35:47,104 --> 00:35:48,355
- - Victor came down
- 613
- 00:35:48,522 --> 00:35:51,066
- and started to
- rearrange Ed's window.
- 614
- 00:35:53,610 --> 00:35:57,072
- It was very asymmetrical,
- and very haphazard.
- 615
- 00:35:58,991 --> 00:36:01,869
- But Halston came and
- loved the window.
- 616
- 00:36:03,412 --> 00:36:08,292
- When Ed saw it, he just put
- on his coat and went home.
- 617
- 00:36:08,458 --> 00:36:10,961
- It was the changing
- of the guard.
- 618
- 00:36:12,254 --> 00:36:14,464
- - Are you looking
- for his Rosebud?
- 619
- 00:36:14,631 --> 00:36:17,009
- The one thing that
- explains his whole life?
- 620
- 00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:18,343
- You won't find one.
- 621
- 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:20,012
- Not with Halston.
- 622
- 00:36:20,178 --> 00:36:22,806
- What you see is
- what you get, baby.
- 623
- 00:36:25,726 --> 00:36:27,394
- - Victor was Venezuelan,
- 624
- 00:36:27,561 --> 00:36:31,481
- and he was a bad boy who
- got into a lot of trouble.
- 625
- 00:36:33,191 --> 00:36:36,236
- - My theory has
- always been that
- 626
- 00:36:36,403 --> 00:36:39,281
- Halston came from
- an alcoholic family.
- 627
- 00:36:41,116 --> 00:36:43,911
- That his father had a problem.
- 628
- 00:36:44,077 --> 00:36:47,873
- And that Halston recreated
- his family life with Victor
- 629
- 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,375
- as the dysfunctional person
- 630
- 00:36:50,542 --> 00:36:55,505
- who is constantly going to
- keep everything off balance.
- 631
- 00:37:24,201 --> 00:37:26,495
- - He'd do the
- pregnancy, Patty Hearst.
- 632
- 00:37:26,662 --> 00:37:27,871
- I mean, really crazy.
- 633
- 00:37:28,038 --> 00:37:31,875
- But this was his
- personality, extreme.
- 634
- 00:37:58,986 --> 00:38:00,570
- - Roy, I found
- these pictures of us
- 635
- 00:38:00,737 --> 00:38:05,867
- in my mom's attic.
- 636
- 00:38:10,956 --> 00:38:14,793
- Darling H, you love
- life and I love you.
- 637
- 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,255
- - Ladies and
- gentlemen, Liza Minnelli.
- 638
- 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,137
- - When I met Halston,
- 639
- 00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:27,639
- I just remember him
- talking and me listening.
- 640
- 00:38:29,558 --> 00:38:31,810
- He'd say, "I got it, all
- right," and just put it on you.
- 641
- 00:38:31,977 --> 00:38:34,062
- And it danced with
- you, that's it.
- 642
- 00:38:34,229 --> 00:38:36,773
- His clothes danced with you.
- 643
- 00:38:38,358 --> 00:38:40,402
- We were joined at
- the hip from then on.
- 644
- 00:38:40,569 --> 00:38:41,778
- He was like my dad, in a way,
- 645
- 00:38:41,945 --> 00:38:44,322
- because when I
- was a little girl,
- 646
- 00:38:44,489 --> 00:38:48,744
- my father would give me
- five costumes every year.
- 647
- 00:38:48,910 --> 00:38:53,081
- And it was a dress from
- An American In Paris.
- 648
- 00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:56,918
- And perfectly made, exactly
- like for the ladies.
- 649
- 00:38:58,003 --> 00:39:00,797
- And I guess I got
- into appreciating
- 650
- 00:39:01,882 --> 00:39:05,135
- how clothes could
- change the way you felt.
- 651
- 00:39:06,887 --> 00:39:08,930
- - She dressed only
- in Halston, ever.
- 652
- 00:39:09,097 --> 00:39:10,515
- I mean, she still does.
- 653
- 00:39:10,682 --> 00:39:11,933
- Yes.
- 654
- 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:13,310
- - Liza Minnelli.
- 655
- 00:39:15,812 --> 00:39:18,940
- ♪ Say yes ♪
- 656
- 00:39:19,107 --> 00:39:22,611
- ♪ Life keeps
- happening every day ♪
- 657
- 00:39:22,778 --> 00:39:24,654
- - And this is Halston,
- who is, I think, today,
- 658
- 00:39:24,821 --> 00:39:26,281
- wouldn't you say,
- the best-known name,
- 659
- 00:39:26,448 --> 00:39:27,699
- no, you shouldn't
- say best and worst
- 660
- 00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:29,451
- 'cause then other
- designers get upset.
- 661
- 00:39:29,618 --> 00:39:31,119
- You're pretty good, Halston.
- - Thank you.
- 662
- 00:39:32,871 --> 00:39:34,956
- ♪ You'll never win
- if you never play ♪
- 663
- 00:39:35,123 --> 00:39:38,627
- - He would always think, how
- do I go to that next level?
- 664
- 00:39:38,794 --> 00:39:42,005
- ♪ There's mink and
- marigold right outside ♪
- 665
- 00:39:42,172 --> 00:39:43,465
- ♪ And long white Cadillacs ♪
- 666
- 00:39:43,632 --> 00:39:45,383
- - He was looking for
- a perfume company.
- 667
- 00:39:45,550 --> 00:39:48,845
- ♪ Nothing's gained if
- there's nothing tried ♪
- 668
- 00:39:49,012 --> 00:39:50,180
- ♪ Say yes ♪
- 669
- 00:39:50,347 --> 00:39:51,973
- - Every single week,
- 670
- 00:39:52,140 --> 00:39:54,976
- he was having meetings with
- Revlon's Sol Levine, Coty.
- 671
- 00:39:55,143 --> 00:39:57,187
- - A Mr. Bannon of IFF,
- 672
- 00:39:57,354 --> 00:40:00,107
- he'd like to meet with
- you today if possible.
- 673
- 00:40:00,273 --> 00:40:03,777
- - And then
- finally, Max Factor.
- 674
- 00:40:03,944 --> 00:40:07,280
- And Max Factor was a
- subsidiary of Norton Simon.
- 675
- 00:40:07,447 --> 00:40:11,535
- ♪ Say yes ♪
- 676
- 00:40:11,701 --> 00:40:13,078
- ♪ Yes, I can ♪
- 677
- 00:40:13,245 --> 00:40:15,872
- - I remember Halston
- saying to Andy and me,
- 678
- 00:40:16,039 --> 00:40:18,875
- "You know, I really like
- the Norton Simon people
- 679
- 00:40:19,042 --> 00:40:21,336
- "because they're all so tall."
- 680
- 00:40:25,298 --> 00:40:28,135
- David Mahoney was the
- chairman of Norton Simon.
- 681
- 00:40:28,301 --> 00:40:30,595
- And he was tall, good-looking,
- 682
- 00:40:30,762 --> 00:40:32,848
- and you know, a lot of glamour.
- 683
- 00:40:33,014 --> 00:40:36,518
- ♪ There's lots of chaff,
- but there's lots of wheat ♪
- 684
- 00:40:46,236 --> 00:40:49,156
- ♪ Say yes ♪
- 685
- 00:40:49,322 --> 00:40:50,949
- - It seemed
- like a good match.
- 686
- 00:40:51,116 --> 00:40:55,120
- If he was bought in
- total under Norton Simon,
- 687
- 00:40:55,287 --> 00:40:58,039
- he'd have the freedom to
- explore and to develop more
- 688
- 00:40:58,206 --> 00:41:00,041
- of what Halston wanted.
- 689
- 00:41:00,208 --> 00:41:01,084
- ♪ Yes, I'll dare ♪
- 690
- 00:41:01,251 --> 00:41:03,920
- ♪ Yes, I'll fly ♪
- 691
- 00:41:14,222 --> 00:41:18,894
- ♪ Yes ♪
- 692
- 00:41:26,026 --> 00:41:28,445
- - At the time, it
- seemed like a huge coup.
- 693
- 00:41:28,612 --> 00:41:31,198
- And all his friends, I mean,
- including Andy and all of us,
- 694
- 00:41:31,364 --> 00:41:33,241
- were very happy for him.
- 695
- 00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:37,370
- - He told me, "Gino,
- we're gonna be very busy
- 696
- 00:41:37,537 --> 00:41:41,833
- "because I'm gonna design
- furniture, car interiors.
- 697
- 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,878
- "I'm gonna design a carpet."
- 698
- 00:41:45,045 --> 00:41:46,963
- - Well, don't you find that if
- you take on that many things,
- 699
- 00:41:47,130 --> 00:41:49,216
- that one of your projects
- is going to suffer?
- 700
- 00:41:49,382 --> 00:41:50,926
- - It's rather like
- growing a tree.
- 701
- 00:41:51,092 --> 00:41:52,302
- You know, everyone thinks
- you're an overnight success.
- 702
- 00:41:52,469 --> 00:41:54,429
- I've worked very
- hard for 20 years.
- 703
- 00:41:54,596 --> 00:41:56,723
- And, you know, it's just
- a further extension of it,
- 704
- 00:41:56,890 --> 00:41:58,266
- it's another branch.
- 705
- 00:41:58,433 --> 00:42:01,728
- And they all help each
- other, in a curious way.
- 706
- 00:42:03,855 --> 00:42:07,067
- - Was this
- the beginning of the end?
- 707
- 00:42:07,234 --> 00:42:08,944
- Or was it just the beginning?
- 708
- 00:42:14,658 --> 00:42:18,078
- - In 1973, five
- American designers
- 709
- 00:42:18,245 --> 00:42:19,913
- and five French designers
- 710
- 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:23,792
- were showing their collections
- at one time, at one place,
- 711
- 00:42:23,959 --> 00:42:26,002
- the Palace of Versailles.
- 712
- 00:42:28,463 --> 00:42:31,132
- - American designers
- had never been invited
- 713
- 00:42:31,299 --> 00:42:32,550
- to show in Paris.
- 714
- 00:42:34,094 --> 00:42:36,471
- And this was a huge, huge deal.
- 715
- 00:42:40,517 --> 00:42:41,851
- - For Halston,
- it was very important.
- 716
- 00:42:42,018 --> 00:42:44,312
- He'd go as far as he
- had to go to get it
- 717
- 00:42:44,479 --> 00:42:47,357
- to be the best he
- thought he could make it.
- 718
- 00:42:47,524 --> 00:42:50,860
- - He realized that you
- need a star in there.
- 719
- 00:42:52,529 --> 00:42:55,991
- What happened was that
- Halston got David Mahoney
- 720
- 00:42:56,157 --> 00:43:00,036
- to sponsor the trip,
- and David loved it.
- 721
- 00:43:00,203 --> 00:43:01,788
- He fit right in there.
- 722
- 00:43:06,209 --> 00:43:07,752
- - David Mahoney seemed to me
- 723
- 00:43:07,919 --> 00:43:10,297
- to be fairly
- ambitious socially.
- 724
- 00:43:10,463 --> 00:43:12,924
- And like so many
- self-made people,
- 725
- 00:43:13,091 --> 00:43:17,595
- they wanted to be part of
- this kinda cafe society.
- 726
- 00:43:22,642 --> 00:43:25,395
- - It was a very
- competitive evening.
- 727
- 00:43:28,023 --> 00:43:30,233
- - I think the designers
- were having difficulty
- 728
- 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,193
- with each other.
- 729
- 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,488
- The French took up all the
- time for the rehearsal,
- 730
- 00:43:35,655 --> 00:43:37,574
- and we were the addendums.
- 731
- 00:43:38,658 --> 00:43:40,243
- It was rude, actually.
- 732
- 00:43:41,494 --> 00:43:44,873
- - Their whole presentation
- was beyond grand.
- 733
- 00:43:46,416 --> 00:43:47,751
- They changed orchestras
- 734
- 00:43:47,917 --> 00:43:51,046
- for each of the different
- designer segments.
- 735
- 00:43:51,212 --> 00:43:52,756
- - We couldn't rehearse.
- 736
- 00:43:52,922 --> 00:43:55,258
- All of us were
- waiting and waiting.
- 737
- 00:43:55,425 --> 00:43:57,427
- It was cold, damp.
- 738
- 00:43:57,594 --> 00:44:00,722
- Unfortunately with
- Halston, it got to him.
- 739
- 00:44:00,889 --> 00:44:02,724
- - A terrible fight
- seems to break out.
- 740
- 00:44:02,891 --> 00:44:06,811
- I heard some very
- vicious things were said.
- 741
- 00:44:06,978 --> 00:44:09,856
- - He did have a
- blowup, very dramatic.
- 742
- 00:44:10,940 --> 00:44:13,610
- - It was very difficult.
- 743
- 00:44:13,777 --> 00:44:15,445
- Halston left, and
- Liza said, you know,
- 744
- 00:44:15,612 --> 00:44:17,906
- "We've got to get
- this show done."
- 745
- 00:44:18,073 --> 00:44:20,367
- - She's the one
- who sat down with Halston.
- 746
- 00:44:20,533 --> 00:44:22,202
- She unified everybody.
- 747
- 00:44:23,995 --> 00:44:27,082
- - We'd open, and I'd
- sing Bonjour Paris.
- 748
- 00:44:28,249 --> 00:44:31,461
- ♪ I wanna step out down
- the Champs-Elysee ♪
- 749
- 00:44:31,628 --> 00:44:34,798
- ♪ From the Arch of Triumph
- to the Petit Palais ♪
- 750
- 00:44:34,964 --> 00:44:37,425
- ♪ That's for me ♪
- 751
- 00:44:37,592 --> 00:44:40,678
- ♪ Bonjour, Paris ♪
- - Bonjour, Paris!
- 752
- 00:44:40,845 --> 00:44:41,930
- So.
- 753
- 00:44:45,058 --> 00:44:46,434
- Let's get started.
- 754
- 00:44:46,601 --> 00:44:47,769
- And we were off.
- 755
- 00:44:51,856 --> 00:44:53,817
- - It was
- directed like a musical.
- 756
- 00:44:53,983 --> 00:44:57,237
- - Liza said, "Look, it
- doesn't wanna look rehearsed.
- 757
- 00:44:57,404 --> 00:45:00,323
- "The more human,
- the more goofed up,
- 758
- 00:45:00,490 --> 00:45:03,118
- "that's gonna
- make this happen."
- 759
- 00:45:04,577 --> 00:45:06,996
- - We were so wild,
- in comparison.
- 760
- 00:45:07,163 --> 00:45:10,208
- We had 12
- African-American girls.
- 761
- 00:45:10,375 --> 00:45:11,668
- They only had one.
- 762
- 00:45:16,381 --> 00:45:20,718
- - No sets, it was just
- straightforward fashion,
- 763
- 00:45:20,885 --> 00:45:24,973
- in your face, and modern.
- 764
- 00:45:29,978 --> 00:45:33,398
- - All of that energy and
- that joy and that wonder
- 765
- 00:45:33,565 --> 00:45:35,275
- and that curiosity.
- 766
- 00:45:35,442 --> 00:45:36,734
- Well, that is America.
- 767
- 00:45:39,571 --> 00:45:41,823
- At the end of Halston's piece,
- 768
- 00:45:43,241 --> 00:45:46,202
- they threw their
- programs up in the air.
- 769
- 00:45:46,369 --> 00:45:47,620
- They went bananas.
- 770
- 00:45:48,997 --> 00:45:52,584
- - Versailles put American
- fashion on the map.
- 771
- 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:53,501
- On the map.
- 772
- 00:45:55,211 --> 00:45:58,131
- - Halston was at
- the top of his game.
- 773
- 00:45:58,298 --> 00:46:01,384
- He came like a king
- of the Americans.
- 774
- 00:46:01,551 --> 00:46:04,012
- - Versailles was an extension
- 775
- 00:46:04,179 --> 00:46:07,182
- of what he felt he could
- achieve going down the road
- 776
- 00:46:07,348 --> 00:46:09,184
- because of Norton Simon.
- 777
- 00:46:11,519 --> 00:46:14,105
- When he came back, the
- whole thing changed.
- 778
- 00:46:14,272 --> 00:46:16,774
- His first real
- office by himself
- 779
- 00:46:16,941 --> 00:46:20,278
- was all lined with
- mirrors, all along.
- 780
- 00:46:20,445 --> 00:46:22,864
- It was like, totally mirrored.
- 781
- 00:46:23,031 --> 00:46:26,201
- Very modern and very
- slick and minimal.
- 782
- 00:46:26,367 --> 00:46:30,371
- You can see his changing
- of his whole almost psyche.
- 783
- 00:46:32,332 --> 00:46:35,460
- The hair started getting
- cut less bohemian,
- 784
- 00:46:35,627 --> 00:46:38,213
- more crisp and clean,
- opened his face.
- 785
- 00:46:38,379 --> 00:46:40,256
- The white shirt, the tie.
- 786
- 00:46:41,591 --> 00:46:42,926
- He's very in control.
- 787
- 00:46:43,092 --> 00:46:45,011
- He's very, he is Halston.
- 788
- 00:46:46,387 --> 00:46:48,097
- He is Halston, you know?
- 789
- 00:46:48,264 --> 00:46:49,807
- And it was like, wow!
- 790
- 00:46:57,982 --> 00:47:00,485
- - I'm Halston, and
- this is my home.
- 791
- 00:47:02,779 --> 00:47:05,073
- The architect was Paul Rudolph.
- 792
- 00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:07,992
- And the day I saw
- it, I bought it.
- 793
- 00:47:08,159 --> 00:47:09,869
- It's the only real modern house
- 794
- 00:47:10,036 --> 00:47:12,539
- built in the City of New York
- since the Second World War.
- 795
- 00:47:12,705 --> 00:47:15,458
- It's like living in a
- three-dimensional sculpture.
- 796
- 00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:18,169
- - When I was hired
- by Norton Simon,
- 797
- 00:47:18,336 --> 00:47:20,088
- of course I had
- to meet Halston.
- 798
- 00:47:20,255 --> 00:47:22,882
- So I went to his townhouse.
- 799
- 00:47:23,049 --> 00:47:24,759
- And he showed me
- through the whole thing,
- 800
- 00:47:24,926 --> 00:47:27,345
- and he was clearly
- delighted with his new toy.
- 801
- 00:47:27,512 --> 00:47:29,305
- And I was terribly impressed.
- 802
- 00:47:29,472 --> 00:47:30,932
- And I remember saying to him,
- 803
- 00:47:31,099 --> 00:47:32,892
- I'm gonna enjoy making
- money for you, Halston,
- 804
- 00:47:33,059 --> 00:47:35,478
- 'cause you know
- how to spend it.
- 805
- 00:47:36,896 --> 00:47:39,148
- My brief was that,
- whatever else you do,
- 806
- 00:47:39,315 --> 00:47:42,777
- you've got to get the
- fragrance underway.
- 807
- 00:47:42,944 --> 00:47:45,947
- He wanted Elsa to
- design the bottle.
- 808
- 00:47:46,114 --> 00:47:47,532
- - Elsa Peretti would come in.
- 809
- 00:47:47,699 --> 00:47:50,493
- He wanted it to be sort
- of a teardrop shape,
- 810
- 00:47:50,660 --> 00:47:53,204
- like her iconic necklaces.
- 811
- 00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:57,333
- And they went through
- a number of iterations.
- 812
- 00:47:57,500 --> 00:48:00,420
- - I design not thinking
- about the deadline.
- 813
- 00:48:00,587 --> 00:48:03,798
- You know how much time it
- take me to do this glass?
- 814
- 00:48:03,965 --> 00:48:05,466
- - - No.
- 815
- 00:48:05,633 --> 00:48:07,176
- - From '74 up to now.
- 816
- 00:48:08,469 --> 00:48:10,513
- And they're still not good.
- 817
- 00:48:13,808 --> 00:48:16,477
- - No one had
- ever seen a bottle like that.
- 818
- 00:48:16,644 --> 00:48:18,354
- It had a curved neck.
- 819
- 00:48:18,521 --> 00:48:20,106
- Max Factor people hated it.
- 820
- 00:48:20,273 --> 00:48:21,691
- - Production people at Max
- Factor called me and said,
- 821
- 00:48:21,858 --> 00:48:24,527
- "You know what this
- nut is doing now?
- 822
- 00:48:24,694 --> 00:48:27,155
- "He's putting out a bottle
- that looks like a glob.
- 823
- 00:48:27,322 --> 00:48:29,157
- "You can't fill
- it from the top.
- 824
- 00:48:29,324 --> 00:48:31,451
- "It won't work."
- 825
- 00:48:31,618 --> 00:48:33,244
- - They had
- to get a special stopper.
- 826
- 00:48:33,411 --> 00:48:35,330
- They were talking about
- the economics of it.
- 827
- 00:48:35,496 --> 00:48:36,998
- - I don't think
- Halston really cared
- 828
- 00:48:37,165 --> 00:48:38,499
- what they thought.
- 829
- 00:48:43,004 --> 00:48:44,756
- - It is my name attached to it,
- 830
- 00:48:44,922 --> 00:48:47,008
- so I want to live with
- this for a long time.
- 831
- 00:48:47,175 --> 00:48:51,054
- Just the bottle alone is a
- revolutionary new concept.
- 832
- 00:48:51,220 --> 00:48:52,639
- - Then I got
- another phone call.
- 833
- 00:48:52,805 --> 00:48:54,432
- It said, "You also
- realize what he's doing?
- 834
- 00:48:54,599 --> 00:48:58,269
- "He's not even putting
- his name on it."
- 835
- 00:48:58,436 --> 00:49:00,313
- - Because he thought
- it was a work of art.
- 836
- 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,733
- And simplicity was the keynote.
- 837
- 00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:05,109
- So his name was on the ribbon
- 838
- 00:49:05,276 --> 00:49:07,153
- with which the bottle
- itself was tied.
- 839
- 00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:11,115
- No one else had done
- it that way before.
- 840
- 00:49:11,282 --> 00:49:13,743
- And then the
- fragrance caught on.
- 841
- 00:49:14,827 --> 00:49:16,454
- It became a seller.
- 842
- 00:49:18,790 --> 00:49:21,793
- The largest American
- designer fragrance.
- 843
- 00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:24,045
- The stores couldn't
- get it fast enough.
- 844
- 00:49:24,212 --> 00:49:25,380
- It was ballistic.
- 845
- 00:49:25,546 --> 00:49:26,964
- - You'd get into a
- taxi in New York,
- 846
- 00:49:27,131 --> 00:49:28,466
- and the taxi driver would say,
- 847
- 00:49:28,633 --> 00:49:31,886
- "Oh, you smell good,
- you're wearing Halston."
- 848
- 00:49:34,305 --> 00:49:38,059
- Once it started to go,
- everything started to go.
- 849
- 00:49:40,395 --> 00:49:43,022
- - I began a
- very large license program.
- 850
- 00:49:43,189 --> 00:49:45,108
- We were the first
- American designer
- 851
- 00:49:45,274 --> 00:49:48,486
- to really do this heavy.
- 852
- 00:49:48,653 --> 00:49:52,115
- - I have two fragrances
- for men, a tie licensee,
- 853
- 00:49:52,281 --> 00:49:53,616
- two suede sport jackets.
- 854
- 00:49:53,783 --> 00:49:56,911
- We have an entire
- cosmetic line.
- 855
- 00:49:57,078 --> 00:49:58,162
- My name is Halston.
- 856
- 00:49:58,329 --> 00:49:59,706
- I'm Halston.
- 857
- 00:49:59,872 --> 00:50:01,249
- - You've got
- luggage, you've got--
- 858
- 00:50:01,416 --> 00:50:03,000
- - Rugs, sheets,
- perfume, cosmetics.
- 859
- 00:50:03,167 --> 00:50:04,377
- - Really?
- 860
- 00:50:04,544 --> 00:50:05,336
- - Shoes, bags,
- gloves, sunglasses,
- 861
- 00:50:05,503 --> 00:50:07,171
- all kinds of things.
- 862
- 00:50:07,338 --> 00:50:08,673
- - Holy cow, you wouldn't have
- 20 till payday, would you?
- 863
- 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,092
- I'm a little short.
- 864
- 00:50:11,259 --> 00:50:13,469
- - The United
- States of America.
- 865
- 00:50:13,636 --> 00:50:17,598
- - He designed the
- uniform for the '76 Olympics.
- 866
- 00:50:17,765 --> 00:50:19,851
- - He designed the new Girl
- Scout Uniform for leaders,
- 867
- 00:50:20,017 --> 00:50:22,395
- so we don't have to wear the
- drab-looking things we used to.
- 868
- 00:50:22,562 --> 00:50:23,646
- Thank you.
- - Thank you very much,
- 869
- 00:50:23,813 --> 00:50:26,274
- you know.
- 870
- 00:50:26,441 --> 00:50:27,942
- - And you
- also dressed the Avis--
- 871
- 00:50:28,109 --> 00:50:30,069
- - Well, the whole Avis Company.
- 872
- 00:50:30,236 --> 00:50:31,195
- No, I do a lot of
- things like that.
- 873
- 00:50:31,362 --> 00:50:32,739
- - When do you sleep?
- 874
- 00:50:32,905 --> 00:50:34,407
- Oh, well, I sleep.
- 875
- 00:50:34,574 --> 00:50:36,117
- - I would call that
- the golden years.
- 876
- 00:50:36,284 --> 00:50:38,786
- What he touched turned to gold.
- 877
- 00:50:40,246 --> 00:50:43,875
- He set up the deal for
- Elsa to go with Tiffany.
- 878
- 00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:48,337
- - Halston took me there, and
- there I was, with Tiffany.
- 879
- 00:50:48,504 --> 00:50:50,465
- - That's it,
- that's it, that's all, please.
- 880
- 00:50:50,631 --> 00:50:51,591
- - He made
- the wedding clothes
- 881
- 00:50:51,758 --> 00:50:53,468
- for Sly and the Family Stone.
- 882
- 00:50:55,178 --> 00:50:56,304
- - He designed
- 883
- 00:50:56,471 --> 00:50:57,972
- all the costumes
- for Martha Graham,
- 884
- 00:50:58,139 --> 00:51:00,308
- and then supported the company.
- 885
- 00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:05,605
- - He had a lot of
- things on his plate.
- 886
- 00:51:05,772 --> 00:51:10,318
- And I have a feeling that
- is where some of the tension
- 887
- 00:51:10,485 --> 00:51:11,819
- started to happen.
- 888
- 00:51:14,447 --> 00:51:16,449
- - Halston
- felt that he, individually,
- 889
- 00:51:16,616 --> 00:51:18,910
- had to design everything
- that was licensed,
- 890
- 00:51:19,076 --> 00:51:21,412
- and that was a monumental task.
- 891
- 00:51:23,456 --> 00:51:24,999
- - I must be a part of it.
- 892
- 00:51:25,166 --> 00:51:27,794
- I never, ever just lent my name
- 893
- 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,546
- for a commercial
- business venture.
- 894
- 00:51:32,507 --> 00:51:35,510
- - From the first
- day I got there,
- 895
- 00:51:35,676 --> 00:51:38,763
- one of the things that I
- did every couple of weeks
- 896
- 00:51:38,930 --> 00:51:42,141
- was go to the bank and
- take out a ton of cash
- 897
- 00:51:42,308 --> 00:51:45,394
- and bring it back
- in an envelope.
- 898
- 00:51:45,561 --> 00:51:47,188
- He'd say, "I might
- be in a meeting,
- 899
- 00:51:47,355 --> 00:51:50,942
- but if Mr. Fisher comes,
- 900
- 00:51:51,108 --> 00:51:53,319
- "just give him the envelope."
- 901
- 00:51:56,364 --> 00:51:59,575
- I never saw him snort
- cocaine, but I paid,
- 902
- 00:52:01,410 --> 00:52:04,664
- I mean, I got a lot of
- money every few weeks.
- 903
- 00:52:04,831 --> 00:52:06,040
- $2,000 to $3,000.
- 904
- 00:52:07,291 --> 00:52:09,252
- - I want to stop all
- the kind of bullshit
- 905
- 00:52:09,418 --> 00:52:10,753
- that we were drug addicts.
- 906
- 00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,214
- We'd smoke, yeah, but we work.
- 907
- 00:52:14,549 --> 00:52:17,051
- For that our things were going.
- 908
- 00:52:17,218 --> 00:52:18,845
- For that Halston thing.
- 909
- 00:52:19,011 --> 00:52:20,179
- What do you think,
- with Halston,
- 910
- 00:52:20,346 --> 00:52:22,390
- we were
- there and smoking?
- 911
- 00:52:22,557 --> 00:52:26,352
- No, we were thinking,
- what you wear, what you do
- 912
- 00:52:26,519 --> 00:52:28,271
- all night long.
- 913
- 00:52:28,437 --> 00:52:31,148
- I was working all night long.
- 914
- 00:52:31,315 --> 00:52:35,069
- Yeah, we took drugs
- of course.
- 915
- 00:52:35,236 --> 00:52:39,657
- How you cannot take drugs,
- being up all night long?
- 916
- 00:52:39,824 --> 00:52:41,367
- But it was smoking.
- 917
- 00:52:41,534 --> 00:52:44,036
- It was not heavy drugs.
- 918
- 00:52:44,203 --> 00:52:45,955
- A little coke sometimes.
- 919
- 00:52:47,957 --> 00:52:49,542
- - Halston took me
- into his office one day,
- 920
- 00:52:49,709 --> 00:52:50,835
- and he just said,
- "You know,
- 921
- 00:52:51,002 --> 00:52:52,336
- I want somebody
- who is completely
- 922
- 00:52:52,503 --> 00:52:54,380
- committed to the business."
- 923
- 00:52:58,551 --> 00:53:01,137
- - I went to work for Halston.
- 924
- 00:53:01,304 --> 00:53:03,180
- The best thing I ever did.
- 925
- 00:53:04,557 --> 00:53:07,560
- I was totally, 1,000 %
- devoted to him.
- 926
- 00:53:07,727 --> 00:53:10,521
- I remember going in
- to set up my office.
- 927
- 00:53:10,688 --> 00:53:12,023
- It would start to rain.
- 928
- 00:53:12,189 --> 00:53:13,858
- And when I got off
- the elevator,
- 929
- 00:53:14,025 --> 00:53:15,568
- Halston was standing there.
- 930
- 00:53:15,735 --> 00:53:19,447
- He looked at me, and he
- said, "You're all wet."
- 931
- 00:53:19,614 --> 00:53:22,491
- He was carrying a red
- raincoat, and he said,
- 932
- 00:53:22,658 --> 00:53:24,201
- "I want you to try this on.
- 933
- 00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:26,746
- "I made this for Liza, but
- I want you to have it."
- 934
- 00:53:31,292 --> 00:53:33,127
- He was such a hard worker.
- 935
- 00:53:33,294 --> 00:53:35,087
- I mean, he'd come in
- early, go home late,
- 936
- 00:53:35,254 --> 00:53:37,757
- and always
- accomplish something.
- 937
- 00:53:37,924 --> 00:53:39,133
- Until Studio 54.
- 938
- 00:53:41,469 --> 00:53:44,138
- ♪ Dance ♪
- 939
- 00:53:44,305 --> 00:53:45,848
- ♪ Just a feeling ♪
- 940
- 00:53:46,015 --> 00:53:50,436
- ♪ Dance ♪
- ♪ Just a feeling ♪
- 941
- 00:53:55,066 --> 00:53:57,652
- ♪ Just a feeling ♪
- 942
- 00:54:00,488 --> 00:54:02,740
- - I took Halston to Studio 54.
- 943
- 00:54:02,907 --> 00:54:04,909
- So I don't know what
- other stories you heard,
- 944
- 00:54:05,076 --> 00:54:07,203
- but I remember that was the
- first time, and he says,
- 945
- 00:54:07,370 --> 00:54:09,330
- "I'm gonna bring friends."
- 946
- 00:54:14,001 --> 00:54:17,672
- - Halston gave a birthday
- party for Bianca Jagger,
- 947
- 00:54:17,838 --> 00:54:19,215
- and Bianca got on the horse,
- 948
- 00:54:19,382 --> 00:54:22,718
- and that photograph
- went around the world.
- 949
- 00:54:22,885 --> 00:54:27,139
- And that made 54 like the
- place where everybody went.
- 950
- 00:54:31,477 --> 00:54:33,479
- - You're a
- devotee of Studio 54.
- 951
- 00:54:33,646 --> 00:54:35,022
- What do you see there?
- 952
- 00:54:35,189 --> 00:54:36,732
- - As Truman said, it's
- the only democracy.
- 953
- 00:54:36,899 --> 00:54:40,152
- It's good for everybody
- on every level of society.
- 954
- 00:54:40,319 --> 00:54:41,696
- - This is the scene
- 955
- 00:54:41,862 --> 00:54:44,156
- outside a New York
- disco called Studio 54.
- 956
- 00:54:44,323 --> 00:54:47,284
- This is the place that's
- in with the disco crowd,
- 957
- 00:54:47,451 --> 00:54:51,372
- except that these
- people are still out.
- 958
- 00:54:51,539 --> 00:54:53,165
- Of course, Liza Minnelli
- and her kind of celebrities
- 959
- 00:54:53,332 --> 00:54:54,875
- sweep right through
- the protective ranks
- 960
- 00:54:55,042 --> 00:54:58,295
- of doorkeepers.
- 961
- 00:54:58,462 --> 00:55:00,548
- - They are discriminating
- at Studio 54.
- 962
- 00:55:00,715 --> 00:55:03,217
- Recently, a president of a
- Wall Street brokerage firm
- 963
- 00:55:03,384 --> 00:55:05,261
- was ejected, and
- he was a member.
- 964
- 00:55:05,428 --> 00:55:08,264
- So he's suing for a million.
- 965
- 00:55:08,431 --> 00:55:09,557
- - I'll do a Donna Summer song.
- 966
- 00:55:09,724 --> 00:55:11,225
- Ah.
- 967
- 00:55:16,981 --> 00:55:19,775
- - I think they lived
- out a lot of their fantasies.
- 968
- 00:55:19,942 --> 00:55:22,611
- As gay boys, Hollywood
- was such a big influence
- 969
- 00:55:22,778 --> 00:55:25,156
- on both Andy and Halston.
- 970
- 00:55:25,322 --> 00:55:26,824
- - I was born in the Midwest.
- 971
- 00:55:26,991 --> 00:55:30,411
- And, you know, much of your
- life was really probably
- 972
- 00:55:30,578 --> 00:55:35,541
- involved in going to the movies
- on Saturdays and Sundays.
- 973
- 00:55:35,708 --> 00:55:37,043
- - If you
- were at a dinner party
- 974
- 00:55:37,209 --> 00:55:38,544
- and you could have
- one person on the left
- 975
- 00:55:38,711 --> 00:55:40,379
- and one on the right,
- who would that be?
- 976
- 00:55:40,546 --> 00:55:41,839
- - Halston and Elizabeth Taylor.
- 977
- 00:55:42,006 --> 00:55:42,965
- - Why?
- 978
- 00:55:43,132 --> 00:55:45,718
- - Oh, they're both wonderful.
- 979
- 00:55:45,885 --> 00:55:47,094
- - They weren't society,
- 980
- 00:55:47,261 --> 00:55:49,638
- but they became a
- new kind of society.
- 981
- 00:55:52,016 --> 00:55:54,435
- Suddenly, you know, gays
- were part of society.
- 982
- 00:55:54,602 --> 00:55:57,271
- Many more Jews were
- part of society.
- 983
- 00:56:00,399 --> 00:56:02,109
- - He wasn't a snob.
- 984
- 00:56:02,276 --> 00:56:03,903
- Halston wasn't a snob.
- 985
- 00:56:04,070 --> 00:56:05,780
- He wasn't uppity.
- 986
- 00:56:05,946 --> 00:56:07,281
- He wasn't anything.
- 987
- 00:56:07,448 --> 00:56:09,075
- - Both you and Halston
- come from Indiana.
- 988
- 00:56:09,241 --> 00:56:11,452
- You sound like Cary Grant,
- you sound like Noel Coward.
- 989
- 00:56:13,454 --> 00:56:15,039
- You moved the accent.
- 990
- 00:56:15,206 --> 00:56:16,582
- Were you unhappy at some point
- with where you came from,
- 991
- 00:56:16,749 --> 00:56:18,584
- and decided, I'm
- going to show them?
- 992
- 00:56:18,751 --> 00:56:20,086
- - Never.
- 993
- 00:56:20,252 --> 00:56:21,420
- Never.
- 994
- 00:56:21,587 --> 00:56:22,797
- I wasn't, anyway.
- 995
- 00:56:26,383 --> 00:56:29,345
- - Well, everybody was
- free love, and free this,
- 996
- 00:56:29,512 --> 00:56:33,140
- and poppers and coke
- and this and that.
- 997
- 00:56:38,187 --> 00:56:42,233
- It got very muddy, and
- it's like quicksand.
- 998
- 00:56:43,609 --> 00:56:46,779
- If everybody around
- you is going down,
- 999
- 00:56:46,946 --> 00:56:48,864
- you're gonna go too.
- 1000
- 00:56:52,743 --> 00:56:55,496
- - Victor was a
- destructive force.
- 1001
- 00:56:55,663 --> 00:56:58,374
- Andy did Victor's portraits,
- I think he did two.
- 1002
- 00:56:58,541 --> 00:57:00,292
- And one day, Victor shows up
- 1003
- 00:57:00,459 --> 00:57:02,837
- with the paintings completely
- covered with graffiti,
- 1004
- 00:57:03,003 --> 00:57:04,171
- and just a mess.
- 1005
- 00:57:06,507 --> 00:57:09,051
- And he had painted over them,
- 1006
- 00:57:09,218 --> 00:57:13,514
- thinking this was like taking
- Andy's art to another level.
- 1007
- 00:57:13,681 --> 00:57:15,307
- And Andy was really mad.
- 1008
- 00:57:15,474 --> 00:57:16,809
- And Andy was like,
- 1009
- 00:57:16,976 --> 00:57:18,519
- "Don't think I'm doing
- new ones, Victor."
- 1010
- 00:57:36,036 --> 00:57:40,833
- - Company was booming, so I
- went out looking for space.
- 1011
- 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:44,753
- And I came upon this
- thing in Olympic Tower,
- 1012
- 00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:46,463
- and that was the
- end of the search,
- 1013
- 00:57:46,630 --> 00:57:51,010
- because Halston, "That's
- the one we're gonna get."
- 1014
- 00:57:51,177 --> 00:57:52,636
- The architect came
- up with some plans,
- 1015
- 00:57:52,803 --> 00:57:54,555
- and Halston didn't like them.
- 1016
- 00:57:54,722 --> 00:57:58,017
- He wanted something that took
- spectacular use of the space.
- 1017
- 00:57:58,184 --> 00:58:01,562
- And he began to
- design what he wanted.
- 1018
- 00:58:17,578 --> 00:58:19,413
- Mirrors everywhere.
- 1019
- 00:58:19,580 --> 00:58:20,623
- The walls were mirrors.
- 1020
- 00:58:20,789 --> 00:58:23,334
- Everything was mirrors.
- 1021
- 00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:25,002
- Except my office.
- 1022
- 00:58:25,169 --> 00:58:26,921
- I wouldn't allow them to
- put up mirrors in my office.
- 1023
- 00:58:27,087 --> 00:58:28,964
- I didn't wanna look
- at myself all day.
- 1024
- 00:58:32,218 --> 00:58:35,596
- - Halston made sure
- that his entire workroom
- 1025
- 00:58:35,763 --> 00:58:38,849
- were in a room with
- a lot of windows,
- 1026
- 00:58:39,016 --> 00:58:42,519
- so that as they sewed
- and fitted every day,
- 1027
- 00:58:42,686 --> 00:58:44,813
- they didn't feel confined.
- 1028
- 00:58:44,980 --> 00:58:47,066
- That really impressed me.
- 1029
- 00:58:47,233 --> 00:58:51,070
- - When the workmen saw
- the space, the women wept.
- 1030
- 00:58:52,529 --> 00:58:55,032
- - That was the best
- workroom in the world.
- 1031
- 00:58:55,199 --> 00:58:57,743
- Was even too good
- to be a workroom.
- 1032
- 00:59:13,634 --> 00:59:16,762
- - There wasn't, at the time,
- I don't think there is today,
- 1033
- 00:59:16,929 --> 00:59:20,808
- a fashion house ever
- as grand as that was.
- 1034
- 00:59:35,281 --> 00:59:36,907
- - In that space,
- 1035
- 00:59:37,074 --> 00:59:39,785
- he had reached something
- very specific to him.
- 1036
- 00:59:39,952 --> 00:59:42,288
- That's where he
- felt he belonged.
- 1037
- 00:59:42,454 --> 00:59:44,498
- ♪ I'm in with the in crowd ♪
- 1038
- 00:59:44,665 --> 00:59:47,001
- - The shows there were amazing.
- 1039
- 00:59:47,167 --> 00:59:49,878
- You felt like walking on
- a cloud down the runway.
- 1040
- 00:59:50,045 --> 00:59:52,965
- ♪ I'm in with the in crowd ♪
- 1041
- 00:59:53,132 --> 00:59:55,592
- - Once he moved into
- the Olympic Tower,
- 1042
- 00:59:55,759 --> 00:59:58,595
- his front row was the most
- glamorous in New York.
- 1043
- 00:59:58,762 --> 01:00:01,724
- Diana Vreeland, Lee
- Radziwill, Liza Minnelli.
- 1044
- 01:00:03,726 --> 01:00:06,478
- - He was the first to
- really bring in movie stars.
- 1045
- 01:00:10,065 --> 01:00:11,275
- - They are the elite
- of New York City,
- 1046
- 01:00:11,442 --> 01:00:13,152
- and they've been
- invited by Halston,
- 1047
- 01:00:13,319 --> 01:00:15,487
- who's standing here beside me.
- 1048
- 01:00:17,156 --> 01:00:18,198
- - I always
- saw him as famous.
- 1049
- 01:00:18,365 --> 01:00:20,075
- - I made it in New York.
- 1050
- 01:00:20,242 --> 01:00:23,704
- - But then, of course,
- it became ginormous.
- 1051
- 01:00:25,331 --> 01:00:26,749
- - And what he did was
- 1052
- 01:00:26,915 --> 01:00:28,292
- he surrounded himself
- for public appearances
- 1053
- 01:00:28,459 --> 01:00:30,919
- with what became known
- as the Halstonettes.
- 1054
- 01:00:31,086 --> 01:00:33,255
- ♪ I go where the
- in crowd goes ♪
- 1055
- 01:00:33,422 --> 01:00:35,424
- - Brilliant
- marketing, brilliant.
- 1056
- 01:00:38,302 --> 01:00:41,555
- - Sometimes there were
- 20 of us, you know?
- 1057
- 01:00:43,265 --> 01:00:44,808
- - Some of the people I
- knew in the fashion business,
- 1058
- 01:00:44,975 --> 01:00:46,060
- I mean, they were
- totally dismissive.
- 1059
- 01:00:46,226 --> 01:00:47,686
- I mean, who does
- he think he is?
- 1060
- 01:00:47,853 --> 01:00:49,563
- And the answer is, what
- picture is gonna run?
- 1061
- 01:00:49,730 --> 01:00:51,315
- Is it gonna be some fashion
- designer standing by himself?
- 1062
- 01:00:51,482 --> 01:00:55,319
- Or is it gonna be Halston
- with the Halstonettes?
- 1063
- 01:00:55,486 --> 01:01:00,074
- ♪ They know the in
- crowd is out of sight ♪
- 1064
- 01:01:02,493 --> 01:01:03,535
- - I want to
- run the faces of all
- 1065
- 01:01:03,702 --> 01:01:05,245
- the women close-up.
- 1066
- 01:01:05,412 --> 01:01:06,121
- - Right.
- 1067
- 01:01:06,288 --> 01:01:08,082
- - We've done that.
- 1068
- 01:01:08,248 --> 01:01:09,583
- Okay, where are the--
- 1069
- 01:01:09,750 --> 01:01:10,542
- - John
- Fairchild is the publisher
- 1070
- 01:01:10,709 --> 01:01:12,169
- of Women's Wear.
- 1071
- 01:01:12,336 --> 01:01:14,088
- As always, he has
- the final word
- 1072
- 01:01:14,254 --> 01:01:17,925
- on how last night's party
- will look in the next edition.
- 1073
- 01:01:18,092 --> 01:01:21,053
- Women's Wear is the
- bible of the industry.
- 1074
- 01:01:21,220 --> 01:01:22,471
- - Halston, if they
- stand on the table,
- 1075
- 01:01:22,638 --> 01:01:25,015
- will it hurt the table?
- 1076
- 01:01:25,182 --> 01:01:26,433
- - It would, 'cause I
- just had 'em lacquered.
- 1077
- 01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:28,143
- - No, no, no.
- 1078
- 01:01:28,310 --> 01:01:29,520
- Can they stand on the
- table with their bare feet?
- 1079
- 01:01:29,686 --> 01:01:31,647
- - Whatever
- makes you happy.
- 1080
- 01:01:31,814 --> 01:01:32,856
- Assistants.
- 1081
- 01:01:33,023 --> 01:01:34,441
- - Yes?
- 1082
- 01:01:34,608 --> 01:01:36,860
- - Boy, what
- a shot that is, whoa.
- 1083
- 01:01:37,027 --> 01:01:38,779
- - Leave the candles.
- 1084
- 01:01:59,758 --> 01:02:01,760
- - Everybody at the
- Olympic Tower called him H.
- 1085
- 01:02:01,927 --> 01:02:02,928
- And they'd say, "H?"
- 1086
- 01:02:03,095 --> 01:02:05,389
- And he'd say, "I
- am the emperor."
- 1087
- 01:02:06,473 --> 01:02:09,977
- And he was believing
- this stuff.
- 1088
- 01:02:10,144 --> 01:02:11,603
- - Halston, is
- it tougher to get on top,
- 1089
- 01:02:11,770 --> 01:02:13,063
- or to stay on top?
- 1090
- 01:02:14,982 --> 01:02:17,151
- - Halston said, "Let me tell
- you, we're going to China."
- 1091
- 01:02:17,317 --> 01:02:18,152
- I'm like, wow.
- 1092
- 01:02:20,612 --> 01:02:21,738
- - China
- wanted to show the world
- 1093
- 01:02:21,905 --> 01:02:23,907
- that they were opening up.
- 1094
- 01:02:24,074 --> 01:02:26,493
- So they invited the
- master of publicity
- 1095
- 01:02:26,660 --> 01:02:28,537
- to visit the silk cities.
- 1096
- 01:02:31,331 --> 01:02:32,875
- - Come on, D.D.,
- come on, everybody.
- 1097
- 01:02:33,041 --> 01:02:36,503
- What I want to explain to
- you all is what we're doing.
- 1098
- 01:02:36,670 --> 01:02:41,383
- - With the China trip, you
- could see the brain working.
- 1099
- 01:02:41,550 --> 01:02:46,054
- Each girl had their own
- personal collection designed.
- 1100
- 01:02:46,221 --> 01:02:48,307
- Everything, all laid out.
- 1101
- 01:02:48,474 --> 01:02:51,351
- - We just needed to pack
- our lingerie and makeup.
- 1102
- 01:02:51,518 --> 01:02:53,312
- - We will also go
- to the Ming tombs,
- 1103
- 01:02:53,479 --> 01:02:55,647
- and we'll go to
- the Forbidden City.
- 1104
- 01:02:55,814 --> 01:02:57,691
- And one of the best places
- is going to be, of course,
- 1105
- 01:02:57,858 --> 01:03:00,027
- the Great Wall of China.
- 1106
- 01:03:00,194 --> 01:03:02,988
- - Every affair, you know,
- dinner here, dinner there.
- 1107
- 01:03:03,155 --> 01:03:04,656
- Everything was choreographed.
- 1108
- 01:03:04,823 --> 01:03:06,241
- It was just incredible.
- 1109
- 01:03:06,408 --> 01:03:08,660
- - If it's a cold day,
- she'll wear, you know,
- 1110
- 01:03:08,827 --> 01:03:11,580
- sort of a shawl like this,
- but this is a Chinatex silk.
- 1111
- 01:03:11,747 --> 01:03:13,707
- - He just
- had total control.
- 1112
- 01:03:13,874 --> 01:03:15,167
- - Hi, Andy.
- - Hi, Andy.
- 1113
- 01:03:15,334 --> 01:03:16,585
- - Come on in
- 1114
- 01:03:16,752 --> 01:03:18,462
- and get photographed,
- Andy.
- 1115
- 01:03:18,629 --> 01:03:22,716
- - He asked me one day, "Do you
- dream of what you're doing?"
- 1116
- 01:03:22,883 --> 01:03:25,886
- And, obviously, I was exhausted
- from going to Studio 54
- 1117
- 01:03:26,053 --> 01:03:27,471
- and all those parties,
- and I was like,
- 1118
- 01:03:27,638 --> 01:03:29,014
- no, I haven't dreamt of it.
- 1119
- 01:03:29,181 --> 01:03:31,725
- He's like, "You know,
- Naeem, it'll be amazing.
- 1120
- 01:03:31,892 --> 01:03:33,936
- "You'll be a great designer
- when you start dreaming.
- 1121
- 01:03:34,102 --> 01:03:35,729
- "It should come to
- you in the night,
- 1122
- 01:03:35,896 --> 01:03:37,940
- "then you know that you
- are thinking about it."
- 1123
- 01:03:38,106 --> 01:03:41,527
- - Naeem, why don't you show
- Andy, put the lights on,
- 1124
- 01:03:41,693 --> 01:03:43,570
- and make 'em sparkle
- over there, huh?
- 1125
- 01:03:43,737 --> 01:03:45,405
- Those are your things.
- 1126
- 01:03:45,572 --> 01:03:49,993
- - So to him, night
- and day, it was there.
- 1127
- 01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:52,079
- - You see, this is
- only part of them.
- 1128
- 01:03:52,246 --> 01:03:54,790
- We've got another about
- 15 people, 'cause all--
- 1129
- 01:03:54,957 --> 01:03:56,416
- - There must have
- been about 30 people.
- 1130
- 01:03:56,583 --> 01:03:58,210
- And I was coordinating it.
- 1131
- 01:03:58,377 --> 01:04:01,463
- There was 100 pieces
- of Hartmann luggage.
- 1132
- 01:04:03,799 --> 01:04:04,841
- - We were going to China.
- 1133
- 01:04:05,008 --> 01:04:06,677
- Who got invited to China?
- 1134
- 01:04:15,852 --> 01:04:17,521
- - I said to a
- Chinese executive,
- 1135
- 01:04:17,688 --> 01:04:19,231
- we're coming with
- a lot of luggage.
- 1136
- 01:04:19,398 --> 01:04:20,148
- Do you have a way
- of handling it?
- 1137
- 01:04:20,315 --> 01:04:21,316
- He said, "Oh, yes, yes."
- 1138
- 01:04:21,483 --> 01:04:24,027
- And he came with
- a shopping cart.
- 1139
- 01:04:24,194 --> 01:04:28,824
- They had one shopping cart to
- move our luggage.
- 1140
- 01:04:33,453 --> 01:04:35,455
- - This is the beginning of
- the world tour of fashions
- 1141
- 01:04:35,622 --> 01:04:36,999
- by Halston.
- 1142
- 01:04:37,165 --> 01:04:37,791
- - I think
- there's a big change.
- 1143
- 01:04:37,958 --> 01:04:39,376
- - Why?
- 1144
- 01:04:39,543 --> 01:04:42,087
- - Well, I think it's
- America's time, really.
- 1145
- 01:04:46,133 --> 01:04:47,509
- - Here he is,
- 1146
- 01:04:47,676 --> 01:04:50,095
- sort of an ambassador
- of American fashion.
- 1147
- 01:04:50,262 --> 01:04:53,223
- He became somewhat
- like a world figure.
- 1148
- 01:05:14,995 --> 01:05:19,458
- - But we were basically there
- to go to the silk factories.
- 1149
- 01:05:19,625 --> 01:05:23,295
- - Those people who
- had done the fabrics
- 1150
- 01:05:23,462 --> 01:05:26,548
- actually got to see how you
- could play with the fabric.
- 1151
- 01:05:26,715 --> 01:05:29,885
- So they were just,
- like, in awe.
- 1152
- 01:05:30,052 --> 01:05:31,511
- It was wonderful.
- 1153
- 01:05:31,678 --> 01:05:34,681
- I was in awe of them
- being in awe of us.
- 1154
- 01:05:35,974 --> 01:05:37,100
- That's great.
- 1155
- 01:05:37,267 --> 01:05:39,645
- That's great, I
- love that on you.
- 1156
- 01:05:39,811 --> 01:05:41,104
- I love that on you.
- 1157
- 01:05:41,271 --> 01:05:42,439
- - It might
- be a little tight,
- 1158
- 01:05:42,606 --> 01:05:44,983
- but I consider it
- a great compliment
- 1159
- 01:05:45,150 --> 01:05:47,527
- that she wanted to put it on.
- 1160
- 01:05:47,694 --> 01:05:49,488
- - Halston was saying,
- "No, they wanna modernize.
- 1161
- 01:05:49,655 --> 01:05:51,073
- "They wanna modernize here."
- 1162
- 01:05:51,239 --> 01:05:53,241
- - Is it that complicated
- to change the patterns?
- 1163
- 01:05:53,408 --> 01:05:55,869
- - I think that made
- the trip for Halston.
- 1164
- 01:05:56,036 --> 01:05:58,997
- Because I think he thought
- he could contribute something
- 1165
- 01:05:59,164 --> 01:06:03,710
- to the people of China.
- 1166
- 01:06:04,503 --> 01:06:05,879
- - That was really PR.
- 1167
- 01:06:06,046 --> 01:06:08,465
- And he got tremendous
- amount of publicity.
- 1168
- 01:06:08,632 --> 01:06:10,175
- He was all over.
- 1169
- 01:06:10,342 --> 01:06:12,135
- And when you see the
- pictures, they were beautiful.
- 1170
- 01:06:12,302 --> 01:06:14,554
- I mean, they looked fantastic.
- 1171
- 01:06:14,721 --> 01:06:17,224
- You know, if you didn't know
- the back side of the story,
- 1172
- 01:06:17,391 --> 01:06:20,394
- it looked like a
- fantastic trip.
- 1173
- 01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,854
- Halston and the group here,
- Halston and the group there.
- 1174
- 01:06:23,021 --> 01:06:24,439
- They all looked great.
- 1175
- 01:06:24,606 --> 01:06:26,274
- You know, half of them
- are really miserable,
- 1176
- 01:06:26,441 --> 01:06:29,236
- but they all looked
- terrific.
- 1177
- 01:06:46,086 --> 01:06:47,379
- - Oh, I'm staying.
- 1178
- 01:06:47,546 --> 01:06:49,548
- It's exhausting, and
- I'm just starting.
- 1179
- 01:06:49,715 --> 01:06:53,218
- - We had a film crew
- following us the whole time.
- 1180
- 01:06:56,179 --> 01:06:59,558
- - Every day was
- directed by Halston.
- 1181
- 01:07:00,642 --> 01:07:02,060
- - Get out of the camera way.
- 1182
- 01:07:02,227 --> 01:07:03,395
- The cameras are here,
- so you can't be here,
- 1183
- 01:07:03,562 --> 01:07:04,563
- you have to be on
- the other side.
- 1184
- 01:07:04,730 --> 01:07:06,440
- - He just wanted total control.
- 1185
- 01:07:06,606 --> 01:07:09,443
- And it was too much,
- it became too much.
- 1186
- 01:07:09,609 --> 01:07:13,113
- - I want you all stand
- up there, on the runway.
- 1187
- 01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:14,531
- Not in twos and twos.
- 1188
- 01:07:14,698 --> 01:07:15,574
- You're doing it
- like a fashion show.
- 1189
- 01:07:15,741 --> 01:07:17,617
- It looks so dumb.
- 1190
- 01:07:17,784 --> 01:07:19,619
- Go out again.
- 1191
- 01:07:19,786 --> 01:07:21,496
- No, not please, just do it.
- 1192
- 01:07:21,663 --> 01:07:23,540
- - He was a perfectionist.
- 1193
- 01:07:23,707 --> 01:07:26,710
- He had a very rough
- time in giving up.
- 1194
- 01:07:26,877 --> 01:07:29,087
- It was an emotional,
- like, lock-in.
- 1195
- 01:07:29,254 --> 01:07:30,297
- - No, nothing's lined up.
- 1196
- 01:07:30,464 --> 01:07:31,173
- Connie?
- 1197
- 01:07:33,467 --> 01:07:35,969
- Can't you people line it
- up like I've lined it up?
- 1198
- 01:07:36,136 --> 01:07:37,095
- I mean, really.
- 1199
- 01:07:37,262 --> 01:07:38,597
- Look at the boards.
- 1200
- 01:07:38,764 --> 01:07:39,973
- It's so dumb.
- 1201
- 01:07:40,140 --> 01:07:42,100
- What do you think
- I did all this for?
- 1202
- 01:07:42,267 --> 01:07:43,852
- Well, I hope nobody
- has to go tonight
- 1203
- 01:07:44,019 --> 01:07:46,813
- because we've got
- to go through this.
- 1204
- 01:07:48,023 --> 01:07:49,775
- - He was a bit of a bully.
- 1205
- 01:07:49,941 --> 01:07:52,444
- You really had to stand up to
- him, otherwise, you'd be lost.
- 1206
- 01:07:52,611 --> 01:07:54,696
- And there wasn't a lot of
- people who could do that.
- 1207
- 01:07:54,863 --> 01:07:57,657
- Very, very few people
- in our company.
- 1208
- 01:07:58,784 --> 01:08:01,161
- - He would snap at you.
- 1209
- 01:08:01,328 --> 01:08:05,165
- And even though we all had
- the same amount of abuse,
- 1210
- 01:08:06,833 --> 01:08:08,376
- you took it personally.
- 1211
- 01:08:08,543 --> 01:08:11,713
- I never, ever got used
- to being yelled at.
- 1212
- 01:08:13,757 --> 01:08:16,384
- - It just became a
- different relationship
- 1213
- 01:08:16,551 --> 01:08:18,345
- and a different company.
- 1214
- 01:08:22,307 --> 01:08:26,186
- - Even with Faye, I mean,
- she defended that man.
- 1215
- 01:08:26,353 --> 01:08:28,438
- But he'd just take
- it all out on her.
- 1216
- 01:08:28,605 --> 01:08:32,776
- Scream and yell at the
- top of his lungs, I mean.
- 1217
- 01:08:32,943 --> 01:08:33,985
- - Come on, come on, D. D.
- 1218
- 01:08:34,152 --> 01:08:35,320
- Come on, everybody.
- 1219
- 01:08:35,487 --> 01:08:37,697
- Don't walk out like
- you're a parade.
- 1220
- 01:08:37,864 --> 01:08:41,701
- - But the aura of it all,
- and being a part of it,
- 1221
- 01:08:41,868 --> 01:08:43,036
- kept you hooked.
- 1222
- 01:08:44,162 --> 01:08:45,580
- You know, eventually,
- 1223
- 01:08:45,747 --> 01:08:48,917
- he had all of us wear
- black at the office.
- 1224
- 01:08:50,252 --> 01:08:53,713
- He wanted us to be a
- backdrop to the clothes.
- 1225
- 01:08:55,507 --> 01:08:59,135
- And everything, to
- him, was a PR event.
- 1226
- 01:08:59,302 --> 01:09:00,804
- We were all PR events.
- 1227
- 01:09:00,971 --> 01:09:07,143
- It was the stage
- set that was us.
- 1228
- 01:09:08,270 --> 01:09:09,145
- - Margaret.
- 1229
- 01:09:11,231 --> 01:09:13,358
- - What we're looking
- for is the illusion of art.
- 1230
- 01:09:13,525 --> 01:09:14,693
- - Can I give you a little
- bit of highlight there?
- 1231
- 01:09:14,860 --> 01:09:16,069
- That's very good.
- 1232
- 01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:21,992
- - You see, our mistake,
- including Halston,
- 1233
- 01:09:22,158 --> 01:09:24,744
- is to take our
- name too seriously.
- 1234
- 01:09:26,621 --> 01:09:27,873
- I mean, for me.
- 1235
- 01:09:28,039 --> 01:09:29,916
- I was a jewelry designer.
- 1236
- 01:09:31,042 --> 01:09:32,878
- I was a good jewelry designer.
- 1237
- 01:09:33,044 --> 01:09:35,463
- I dedicate all my time to it.
- 1238
- 01:09:57,944 --> 01:10:03,700
- - We had fights because he was
- so much out of it, you know.
- 1239
- 01:10:03,867 --> 01:10:05,577
- Because I'm vulgar.
- 1240
- 01:10:05,744 --> 01:10:07,621
- Not vulgar, but, you know, I
- cannot withstand all the time,
- 1241
- 01:10:07,787 --> 01:10:11,458
- thinking that the pencil has
- to be like that, impossible.
- 1242
- 01:10:35,857 --> 01:10:42,322
- - He became a real loner.
- 1243
- 01:10:47,410 --> 01:10:49,204
- - And did you
- see the Elizabeth cover?
- 1244
- 01:10:49,371 --> 01:10:50,789
- - Oh, it's so--
- - Oh, that's beautiful.
- 1245
- 01:10:50,956 --> 01:10:52,290
- - Isn't that wonderful?
- - I love it for her.
- 1246
- 01:10:52,457 --> 01:10:53,833
- - She looks great.
- - She looks really great.
- 1247
- 01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:55,377
- - I love the
- picture of her inside.
- 1248
- 01:10:55,543 --> 01:10:56,336
- - It's good.
- 1249
- 01:10:59,172 --> 01:11:00,507
- - Oh, it looks great.
- 1250
- 01:11:00,674 --> 01:11:02,092
- - Do you like that?
- - Mm-hmm, I love it.
- 1251
- 01:11:02,258 --> 01:11:03,843
- - Yeah, I think
- Elizabeth will like that.
- 1252
- 01:11:04,010 --> 01:11:05,595
- - Color is fabulous.
- 1253
- 01:11:05,762 --> 01:11:07,722
- Fabulous, it looks
- good, uh-huh.
- 1254
- 01:11:07,889 --> 01:11:11,351
- - With the cover of Harper's
- Bazaar, I just love it on her.
- 1255
- 01:11:11,518 --> 01:11:12,602
- - And the truth
- of the matter is
- 1256
- 01:11:12,769 --> 01:11:14,604
- that his business
- was slowing down.
- 1257
- 01:11:14,771 --> 01:11:18,024
- He peaked, and other
- names were showing up.
- 1258
- 01:11:20,068 --> 01:11:21,194
- - Which brings us to Calvins,
- 1259
- 01:11:21,361 --> 01:11:23,697
- and the survival
- of the fittest.
- 1260
- 01:11:23,863 --> 01:11:26,449
- - Good morning, Calvin
- Klein, I presume.
- 1261
- 01:11:26,616 --> 01:11:28,034
- Is that your name?
- 1262
- 01:11:30,203 --> 01:11:34,499
- - Perry Ellis
- is a new name in fashion.
- 1263
- 01:11:39,587 --> 01:11:43,925
- - But Halston was
- never one to fall behind.
- 1264
- 01:11:47,345 --> 01:11:49,681
- - I am pleased to
- announce an association
- 1265
- 01:11:49,848 --> 01:11:53,143
- between Halston
- Enterprises and JCPenney.
- 1266
- 01:11:53,309 --> 01:11:57,564
- Today, we have signed $1
- billion retail sales agreement.
- 1267
- 01:11:57,731 --> 01:12:00,233
- - It was a license
- over five years.
- 1268
- 01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:03,695
- The largest designer deal
- that had ever been made.
- 1269
- 01:12:03,862 --> 01:12:05,780
- Enough money to make
- anyone, even Norton Simon,
- 1270
- 01:12:05,947 --> 01:12:07,657
- sit up and take notice.
- 1271
- 01:12:09,242 --> 01:12:12,328
- - I begged him, I begged him
- not to do the Penney thing.
- 1272
- 01:12:12,495 --> 01:12:14,205
- This is gonna kill us.
- 1273
- 01:12:14,372 --> 01:12:16,207
- And he kept saying,
- "No, no, no, no, no.
- 1274
- 01:12:16,374 --> 01:12:19,002
- "I wanna dress
- everybody in America."
- 1275
- 01:12:21,046 --> 01:12:22,756
- - It sounded like
- a good deal to me,
- 1276
- 01:12:22,922 --> 01:12:26,593
- to create things for people
- who couldn't afford his, yes.
- 1277
- 01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:28,219
- - Well, you know,
- strangely enough,
- 1278
- 01:12:28,386 --> 01:12:30,388
- when I was a kid, I always
- shopped at Penney's.
- 1279
- 01:12:30,555 --> 01:12:33,141
- My mother always took me to
- Penney's to buy all the clothes
- 1280
- 01:12:33,308 --> 01:12:35,018
- that we wore to school
- and everything else.
- 1281
- 01:12:35,185 --> 01:12:37,353
- And it's true, I come
- from Des Moines, Iowa.
- 1282
- 01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,564
- And my mother being a
- practical Midwestern lady,
- 1283
- 01:12:39,731 --> 01:12:41,483
- always took us there.
- 1284
- 01:12:41,649 --> 01:12:44,360
- - In one highly-publicized
- stroke of the pen,
- 1285
- 01:12:44,527 --> 01:12:47,030
- Halston moved from
- class to mass.
- 1286
- 01:12:47,197 --> 01:12:48,615
- The reaction of
- the fashion world
- 1287
- 01:12:48,782 --> 01:12:50,950
- ranged from shock to outrage.
- 1288
- 01:12:52,202 --> 01:12:53,703
- - JCPenney?
- 1289
- 01:12:53,870 --> 01:12:55,163
- - Yes, JCPenney,
- 1290
- 01:12:55,330 --> 01:12:57,290
- that nationwide
- middle-class retailer
- 1291
- 01:12:57,457 --> 01:12:59,375
- that offers clothes
- right off the rack,
- 1292
- 01:12:59,542 --> 01:13:01,920
- has landed a very big designer.
- 1293
- 01:13:02,087 --> 01:13:02,962
- - Would you
- expect to find a designer
- 1294
- 01:13:03,129 --> 01:13:04,547
- like Halston in here?
- 1295
- 01:13:04,714 --> 01:13:07,133
- - No, not Halston in JCPenney.
- 1296
- 01:13:07,300 --> 01:13:08,718
- - Obviously, we're
- very excited about it.
- 1297
- 01:13:08,885 --> 01:13:11,221
- We think it is a catch.
- 1298
- 01:13:11,387 --> 01:13:13,473
- - JCPenney is
- trying to trade up.
- 1299
- 01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:15,266
- But they're not quite
- gonna change their name
- 1300
- 01:13:15,433 --> 01:13:17,477
- to JCPeigner or JCPeignoir.
- 1301
- 01:13:19,145 --> 01:13:20,814
- - I believe in our country,
- and I like America,
- 1302
- 01:13:20,980 --> 01:13:22,273
- and I like Americans
- to look good.
- 1303
- 01:13:22,440 --> 01:13:23,691
- And I'm an American designer,
- 1304
- 01:13:23,858 --> 01:13:25,318
- and I love the
- opportunity to do it.
- 1305
- 01:13:25,485 --> 01:13:27,112
- - It's a first
- 1306
- 01:13:27,278 --> 01:13:28,822
- between a department store
- chain and a major designer,
- 1307
- 01:13:28,988 --> 01:13:30,657
- with the clothes expected
- to be on the racks
- 1308
- 01:13:30,824 --> 01:13:32,534
- in the fall of '83.
- 1309
- 01:13:32,700 --> 01:13:35,537
- - That makes a very good mix
- from both catalog and retail.
- 1310
- 01:13:35,703 --> 01:13:37,622
- - This
- is called Halston III.
- 1311
- 01:13:37,789 --> 01:13:39,457
- - It's called Halston III.
- - Why?
- 1312
- 01:13:39,624 --> 01:13:42,460
- - Well, it's really the
- third stage of my career.
- 1313
- 01:13:42,627 --> 01:13:44,170
- The first being in the
- millinery business,
- 1314
- 01:13:44,337 --> 01:13:45,713
- and then in fancy clothes
- 1315
- 01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:47,298
- and dressing all the
- stars and things.
- 1316
- 01:13:47,465 --> 01:13:51,928
- And now, a larger public,
- dressing America, really.
- 1317
- 01:13:52,095 --> 01:13:52,971
- - He said
- he would design it,
- 1318
- 01:13:53,138 --> 01:13:54,556
- and he designed it.
- 1319
- 01:13:54,722 --> 01:13:56,599
- And everybody, of course,
- wanted a piece of it.
- 1320
- 01:13:56,766 --> 01:14:00,478
- You know, the guy who made
- scarves wanted Halston scarves.
- 1321
- 01:14:00,645 --> 01:14:02,355
- The guy who made shoes
- wanted Halston shoes.
- 1322
- 01:14:02,522 --> 01:14:04,524
- All that was going on.
- 1323
- 01:14:04,691 --> 01:14:08,361
- - JCPenney is an
- organization that is so vast,
- 1324
- 01:14:08,528 --> 01:14:10,905
- it's not like one person
- oversees the whole thing.
- 1325
- 01:14:11,072 --> 01:14:15,076
- And so, talk about cultures,
- different cultures completely.
- 1326
- 01:14:15,243 --> 01:14:17,662
- - We asked Penney executives
- to sum up the Halston III line
- 1327
- 01:14:17,829 --> 01:14:19,247
- in one word.
- 1328
- 01:14:19,414 --> 01:14:20,039
- - Profit.
- 1329
- 01:14:20,206 --> 01:14:21,082
- - Volume.
- 1330
- 01:14:21,249 --> 01:14:23,209
- - It's what America wants.
- 1331
- 01:14:26,671 --> 01:14:27,922
- - Things
- became so tense
- 1332
- 01:14:28,089 --> 01:14:29,841
- that Norton Simon
- brought in consultants
- 1333
- 01:14:30,008 --> 01:14:34,053
- to fix the relationship.
- 1334
- 01:14:39,100 --> 01:14:40,518
- - When I got
- involved in it and everything,
- 1335
- 01:14:40,685 --> 01:14:43,354
- I thought, oh, boy, we're
- really in for it, Billie.
- 1336
- 01:14:43,521 --> 01:14:45,773
- I mean, shit, this
- is a mother lode.
- 1337
- 01:14:45,940 --> 01:14:48,401
- These people really need help.
- 1338
- 01:14:48,568 --> 01:14:50,486
- Some sketches they
- couldn't read.
- 1339
- 01:14:50,653 --> 01:14:53,114
- Fabrics they didn't
- know anything about.
- 1340
- 01:14:53,281 --> 01:14:54,782
- Everybody would pat me
- on the head and say,
- 1341
- 01:14:54,949 --> 01:14:57,785
- "Oh, listen, just leave it
- to us, we'll work it out.
- 1342
- 01:14:57,952 --> 01:14:59,162
- "You just be artistical."
- 1343
- 01:15:00,914 --> 01:15:03,124
- Well, no, no way.
- 1344
- 01:15:03,291 --> 01:15:05,710
- The only way it'll work, let
- me tell you, listen to daddy.
- 1345
- 01:15:05,877 --> 01:15:07,086
- - Yes, I'm listening.
- 1346
- 01:15:07,253 --> 01:15:08,129
- - The only
- way it'll work is
- 1347
- 01:15:08,296 --> 01:15:09,589
- to make the goddamn dress,
- 1348
- 01:15:09,756 --> 01:15:11,174
- which, we're making
- the goddamn dress.
- 1349
- 01:15:11,341 --> 01:15:13,009
- And then they go and look
- at the goddamn dress,
- 1350
- 01:15:13,176 --> 01:15:14,761
- they'll see the
- point of difference.
- 1351
- 01:15:14,928 --> 01:15:16,304
- I'm just trying
- to make it work.
- 1352
- 01:15:16,471 --> 01:15:17,722
- - I know that.
- 1353
- 01:15:17,889 --> 01:15:20,058
- I know that, it was--
- - Desperately.
- 1354
- 01:15:23,770 --> 01:15:25,355
- - All the plants,
- he's got to understand
- 1355
- 01:15:25,521 --> 01:15:27,565
- that we've got to commit,
- like, eight months in advance.
- 1356
- 01:15:27,732 --> 01:15:29,275
- We need to get the
- approvals and the go-aheads
- 1357
- 01:15:29,442 --> 01:15:30,610
- and the concepts.
- 1358
- 01:15:30,777 --> 01:15:32,528
- But he's so involved
- with everything,
- 1359
- 01:15:32,695 --> 01:15:34,280
- that everything take,
- 1360
- 01:15:34,447 --> 01:15:37,450
- on the label, the
- label took him months.
- 1361
- 01:15:42,372 --> 01:15:45,166
- - America has heard about it.
- 1362
- 01:15:45,333 --> 01:15:48,044
- And we've all dreamt about it.
- 1363
- 01:15:48,211 --> 01:15:52,006
- And now, after months of
- anticipation, it's here.
- 1364
- 01:15:53,925 --> 01:15:56,678
- The Halston III
- Collection for 1983.
- 1365
- 01:15:59,681 --> 01:16:01,391
- - This is an
- experiment, you know?
- 1366
- 01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:03,977
- And it could succeed,
- it could not succeed.
- 1367
- 01:16:11,484 --> 01:16:12,902
- - Quite a show.
- 1368
- 01:16:13,069 --> 01:16:16,364
- 500 of the fashionables
- sat in a huge room,
- 1369
- 01:16:16,531 --> 01:16:20,326
- dominated by a 60-foot whale
- hanging down from the ceiling.
- 1370
- 01:16:20,493 --> 01:16:24,247
- People didn't know where to
- cry bravo or thar she blows.
- 1371
- 01:16:24,414 --> 01:16:28,293
- - This has been probably the
- most challenging and gratifying
- 1372
- 01:16:28,459 --> 01:16:30,712
- fashion exercise in my career.
- 1373
- 01:16:33,464 --> 01:16:36,301
- - He did really
- give a lot to it.
- 1374
- 01:16:36,467 --> 01:16:38,261
- I mean, he was really
- taking it seriously.
- 1375
- 01:16:38,428 --> 01:16:41,139
- He did a really
- well-conceived line.
- 1376
- 01:16:42,682 --> 01:16:45,518
- - Gosh, we had about
- 26 models in there.
- 1377
- 01:16:45,685 --> 01:16:46,853
- The clothes looked spectacular.
- 1378
- 01:16:47,020 --> 01:16:48,604
- It was perfect
- for that audience.
- 1379
- 01:16:48,771 --> 01:16:52,608
- And everybody looked fabulous,
- and very good reviews.
- 1380
- 01:16:52,775 --> 01:16:56,154
- And the show was very
- successful, very.
- 1381
- 01:16:58,990 --> 01:17:00,241
- - I'm telling him how
- great his show was.
- 1382
- 01:17:00,408 --> 01:17:01,617
- And I knew he was behind it.
- 1383
- 01:17:01,784 --> 01:17:03,202
- - I love your
- board of directors,
- 1384
- 01:17:03,369 --> 01:17:05,663
- wanting to go out and buy
- it right away.
- 1385
- 01:17:05,830 --> 01:17:07,165
- That's great.
- 1386
- 01:17:07,332 --> 01:17:08,458
- - Well, we'll have a
- lot more great showings.
- 1387
- 01:17:08,624 --> 01:17:09,625
- - You
- know, I think so.
- 1388
- 01:17:09,792 --> 01:17:10,960
- - It's the first
- of many to come.
- 1389
- 01:17:11,127 --> 01:17:12,170
- - No, I'm very proud of it.
- 1390
- 01:17:12,337 --> 01:17:13,129
- It's wonderful, a
- wonderful thing.
- 1391
- 01:17:23,306 --> 01:17:24,557
- - They had a big flag
- out at the museum
- 1392
- 01:17:24,724 --> 01:17:26,434
- when they had the show.
- 1393
- 01:17:26,601 --> 01:17:29,354
- And Ira Neimark, who was the
- President of Bergdorf-Goodman,
- 1394
- 01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:31,397
- and Jackie, his wife, were
- coming home from dinner,
- 1395
- 01:17:31,564 --> 01:17:33,483
- and they saw this Halston flag.
- 1396
- 01:17:33,649 --> 01:17:35,568
- He called his
- senior merchandising
- 1397
- 01:17:35,735 --> 01:17:36,903
- manager that night
- 1398
- 01:17:37,070 --> 01:17:41,074
- at home, and she
- called me at home
- 1399
- 01:17:42,033 --> 01:17:45,036
- and said he wants
- everything out of the store.
- 1400
- 01:17:45,203 --> 01:17:46,537
- The fragrance, the
- ready-to-wear, everything.
- 1401
- 01:17:46,704 --> 01:17:48,581
- He doesn't want anything
- to do with Halston.
- 1402
- 01:17:52,794 --> 01:17:54,712
- - Didn't you run into some
- trouble with Bergdorf,
- 1403
- 01:17:54,879 --> 01:17:55,713
- who was the first place
- you had a boutique?
- 1404
- 01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:57,215
- - Oh, not at all.
- 1405
- 01:17:57,382 --> 01:17:58,883
- No, I don't think so.
- 1406
- 01:17:59,050 --> 01:18:00,593
- You know, Bergdorf, you
- know, I wish them well.
- 1407
- 01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:02,512
- I started my career at Bergdorf
- 1408
- 01:18:02,678 --> 01:18:04,514
- and helped to make
- Bergdorf famous.
- 1409
- 01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:06,099
- But Bergdorf is a
- rather small account
- 1410
- 01:18:06,265 --> 01:18:09,143
- compared to all America.
- 1411
- 01:18:09,310 --> 01:18:10,645
- - He was very upset.
- 1412
- 01:18:10,812 --> 01:18:12,397
- He didn't understand it.
- 1413
- 01:18:12,563 --> 01:18:15,441
- Also, shocked
- over the fact that
- 1414
- 01:18:15,608 --> 01:18:17,110
- that could happen that quickly.
- 1415
- 01:18:17,276 --> 01:18:18,653
- - Did Bergdorf-Goodman
- drop your line
- 1416
- 01:18:18,820 --> 01:18:21,406
- because you went to Penney's?
- 1417
- 01:18:21,572 --> 01:18:23,449
- - They, I think,
- felt threatened.
- 1418
- 01:18:23,616 --> 01:18:25,993
- But I think there's
- a way out of it.
- 1419
- 01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:28,371
- - Your connection to
- Bergdorf is a very important,
- 1420
- 01:18:28,538 --> 01:18:29,455
- in terms of, wasn't that
- the first to give you--
- 1421
- 01:18:29,622 --> 01:18:31,457
- - I helped to make Bergdorf.
- 1422
- 01:18:31,624 --> 01:18:33,042
- - He stepped out of the norm.
- 1423
- 01:18:33,209 --> 01:18:37,213
- And people like
- their boundaries
- 1424
- 01:18:37,380 --> 01:18:40,800
- that are set between
- them and those.
- 1425
- 01:18:40,967 --> 01:18:43,511
- - The fancy-shmancy
- guys are saying
- 1426
- 01:18:43,678 --> 01:18:47,598
- that undermines your
- elegant, chic hoi polloi.
- 1427
- 01:18:47,765 --> 01:18:48,933
- - Oh, it doesn't.
- 1428
- 01:18:49,100 --> 01:18:50,601
- My business is very good.
- 1429
- 01:18:50,768 --> 01:18:52,353
- You know, if one store more
- or less doesn't like it,
- 1430
- 01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:54,647
- I mean, you know, I'm sorry.
- 1431
- 01:18:54,814 --> 01:18:56,774
- - Yeah, but you can't--
- - I tried my best.
- 1432
- 01:18:56,941 --> 01:18:59,235
- - And then I started
- getting all kinds of calls
- 1433
- 01:18:59,402 --> 01:19:02,488
- from presidents of the stores
- all over the United States,
- 1434
- 01:19:02,655 --> 01:19:06,534
- and merchandising managers,
- cutting back on orders.
- 1435
- 01:19:09,203 --> 01:19:11,289
- It was pure hell after that.
- 1436
- 01:19:11,456 --> 01:19:14,876
- He realized that he had
- done the wrong thing.
- 1437
- 01:19:16,961 --> 01:19:19,881
- - You know, the
- press could be mean.
- 1438
- 01:19:20,047 --> 01:19:22,133
- They were not supporting him.
- 1439
- 01:19:22,300 --> 01:19:23,968
- That seemed odd to me.
- 1440
- 01:19:25,261 --> 01:19:27,847
- It just seemed like a gang.
- 1441
- 01:19:28,014 --> 01:19:29,515
- One person misbehaves,
- 1442
- 01:19:29,682 --> 01:19:33,186
- and then everybody's
- bullying this one person.
- 1443
- 01:19:35,563 --> 01:19:38,858
- - Clearly, the purpose was to
- strengthen Penney's position
- 1444
- 01:19:39,025 --> 01:19:41,819
- as a supplier of
- fashionable merchandise.
- 1445
- 01:19:41,986 --> 01:19:43,446
- - Good.
- 1446
- 01:19:43,613 --> 01:19:45,072
- - Okay, fine, that's
- a diplomatic answer.
- 1447
- 01:19:45,239 --> 01:19:46,157
- - I guess you got
- what you need.
- 1448
- 01:19:46,324 --> 01:19:47,325
- - Oh, absolutely.
- 1449
- 01:19:47,492 --> 01:19:48,784
- - You can cut out and chop away
- 1450
- 01:19:48,951 --> 01:19:50,703
- and do what you need, okay.
- - Oh, no--
- 1451
- 01:19:52,246 --> 01:19:55,666
- - The JCPenney thing became
- so enormous a problem,
- 1452
- 01:19:55,833 --> 01:19:59,378
- that the distance between
- us became too great.
- 1453
- 01:20:00,630 --> 01:20:02,507
- He wanted me to leave,
- 1454
- 01:20:02,673 --> 01:20:04,383
- but he didn't want to say
- he wanted me to leave.
- 1455
- 01:20:04,550 --> 01:20:08,804
- He wanted to make things so
- unpleasant that I would leave.
- 1456
- 01:20:10,181 --> 01:20:12,642
- I pushed him too hard.
- 1457
- 01:20:12,808 --> 01:20:15,728
- I pushed too many
- licenses down on him.
- 1458
- 01:20:23,736 --> 01:20:27,156
- - Things got out of control,
- and I started not to feel well.
- 1459
- 01:20:27,323 --> 01:20:29,700
- So I went to the
- doctor, and he said,
- 1460
- 01:20:29,867 --> 01:20:32,036
- "You have the
- beginning of an ulcer."
- 1461
- 01:20:32,203 --> 01:20:36,374
- And it was from the stress.
- 1462
- 01:20:41,420 --> 01:20:45,049
- I just got to the point where
- I couldn't deal with it.
- 1463
- 01:20:45,216 --> 01:20:46,551
- And had to leave.
- 1464
- 01:20:46,717 --> 01:20:47,927
- I hated to leave.
- 1465
- 01:20:48,094 --> 01:20:52,974
- I loved Halston, but
- I had to get out.
- 1466
- 01:20:58,020 --> 01:21:00,690
- - I saw him
- frustrated, and like,
- 1467
- 01:21:00,856 --> 01:21:04,485
- "How can this thing
- come into my life?"
- 1468
- 01:21:04,652 --> 01:21:08,281
- And I said, well, maybe you
- have to drop the whole thing
- 1469
- 01:21:08,447 --> 01:21:12,118
- and come with me,
- and get outta here.
- 1470
- 01:21:12,285 --> 01:21:15,538
- We'll just get a boat,
- you'll take a break.
- 1471
- 01:21:17,582 --> 01:21:23,462
- And he'd say, "I
- can't go."
- 1472
- 01:21:28,593 --> 01:21:31,178
- - They say that
- when it rains, it pours.
- 1473
- 01:21:31,345 --> 01:21:33,889
- Well, a perfect storm
- was about to happen
- 1474
- 01:21:34,056 --> 01:21:36,183
- when his good
- friend David Mahoney
- 1475
- 01:21:36,350 --> 01:21:38,686
- threw him into the
- belly of the whale.
- 1476
- 01:21:42,732 --> 01:21:45,067
- - The day
- before the JCPenney show,
- 1477
- 01:21:45,234 --> 01:21:47,903
- David made an offer
- to buy Norton Simon.
- 1478
- 01:21:50,406 --> 01:21:52,450
- He was gonna take it private,
- 1479
- 01:21:52,617 --> 01:21:56,037
- and he could make an awful
- lot of money doing that.
- 1480
- 01:21:56,203 --> 01:21:57,788
- - Takeover mania in America.
- 1481
- 01:21:57,955 --> 01:22:00,041
- Huge corporations are
- gobbling one another
- 1482
- 01:22:00,207 --> 01:22:02,501
- at a rate unmatched in history.
- 1483
- 01:22:02,668 --> 01:22:04,545
- - But Esmark
- came along out of the blue.
- 1484
- 01:22:06,380 --> 01:22:08,466
- They made an outside bid
- that was better than David's
- 1485
- 01:22:08,633 --> 01:22:10,009
- and won the battle.
- 1486
- 01:22:13,888 --> 01:22:15,139
- - I don't know
- how Halston felt,
- 1487
- 01:22:15,306 --> 01:22:17,224
- because after Norton
- Simon sold him,
- 1488
- 01:22:17,391 --> 01:22:19,810
- David Mahoney was,
- you know, not there.
- 1489
- 01:22:19,977 --> 01:22:22,396
- - You cannot
- expect other people
- 1490
- 01:22:22,563 --> 01:22:24,649
- to be interested in your
- welfare all the time.
- 1491
- 01:22:24,815 --> 01:22:27,026
- It's unfair, and
- it's illogical.
- 1492
- 01:22:27,193 --> 01:22:28,819
- So therefore, you'd better
- take care of your own instincts
- 1493
- 01:22:28,986 --> 01:22:30,196
- and your own efforts.
- 1494
- 01:22:30,363 --> 01:22:31,489
- - Dog eat dog, look
- out for yourself,
- 1495
- 01:22:31,656 --> 01:22:33,324
- or is that what you mean?
- 1496
- 01:22:33,491 --> 01:22:34,617
- - Well, no, I really
- don't mean that,
- 1497
- 01:22:34,784 --> 01:22:37,078
- although that's
- part of it, Jane.
- 1498
- 01:22:37,244 --> 01:22:38,663
- - You know how business is.
- 1499
- 01:22:38,829 --> 01:22:40,998
- You know how money is,
- you know how that is.
- 1500
- 01:22:41,165 --> 01:22:43,376
- It's the pollution in the air.
- 1501
- 01:22:45,086 --> 01:22:48,381
- - Esmark wasn't
- really in the fashion business.
- 1502
- 01:22:48,547 --> 01:22:50,174
- Except for maybe.
- 1503
- 01:22:50,341 --> 01:22:53,135
- - Feeling smashing,
- or the height of fashion?
- 1504
- 01:22:53,302 --> 01:22:55,388
- Playtex once and you'll
- Playtex for keeps.
- 1505
- 01:22:55,554 --> 01:22:57,098
- For comfort to please you.
- 1506
- 01:22:57,264 --> 01:23:00,267
- - So Halston
- was put under Joel Smilow,
- 1507
- 01:23:00,434 --> 01:23:02,019
- one of America's
- toughest bosses,
- 1508
- 01:23:02,186 --> 01:23:04,522
- according to Fortune Magazine.
- 1509
- 01:23:04,689 --> 01:23:06,982
- - This is a little
- teeny company.
- 1510
- 01:23:07,149 --> 01:23:09,318
- You know, sort of a flyspeck.
- 1511
- 01:23:09,485 --> 01:23:11,362
- And so, think of it,
- 1512
- 01:23:11,529 --> 01:23:15,408
- if supposing you owned
- the New York Yankees,
- 1513
- 01:23:15,574 --> 01:23:18,577
- and you also owned a
- class D farm's team
- 1514
- 01:23:20,246 --> 01:23:22,748
- in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
- 1515
- 01:23:22,915 --> 01:23:24,333
- How much time would you spend
- 1516
- 01:23:24,500 --> 01:23:26,585
- with your Bethlehem,
- Pennsylvania farm team?
- 1517
- 01:23:36,762 --> 01:23:40,933
- - In 1983, my uncle asked
- me to come to dinner
- 1518
- 01:23:41,100 --> 01:23:42,727
- while I was here.
- 1519
- 01:23:42,893 --> 01:23:46,313
- I had recently
- graduated from college.
- 1520
- 01:23:46,480 --> 01:23:48,065
- I was very green.
- 1521
- 01:23:48,232 --> 01:23:49,900
- And he dropped the bomb on me.
- 1522
- 01:23:50,067 --> 01:23:52,695
- He said, "Well, would
- you like to work for me?"
- 1523
- 01:23:52,862 --> 01:23:56,741
- And I just sort of did
- a somersault and said,
- 1524
- 01:23:56,907 --> 01:23:58,075
- okay, I would love
- to work for you.
- 1525
- 01:23:58,242 --> 01:23:59,452
- When do I start?
- 1526
- 01:24:02,121 --> 01:24:04,498
- I think maybe he wanted to
- bring in a family member
- 1527
- 01:24:04,665 --> 01:24:06,667
- who he could trust 100 %.
- 1528
- 01:24:08,419 --> 01:24:10,629
- There was a new manager
- there from Esmark
- 1529
- 01:24:10,796 --> 01:24:12,298
- who had just come on.
- 1530
- 01:24:13,466 --> 01:24:16,844
- Do I have to say
- his name?
- 1531
- 01:24:17,011 --> 01:24:17,511
- - You don't
- wanna say his name?
- 1532
- 01:24:17,678 --> 01:24:18,429
- - No.
- 1533
- 01:24:45,623 --> 01:24:49,585
- - My first day at
- Halston was interesting.
- 1534
- 01:24:49,752 --> 01:24:52,588
- I never seen anything
- quite like it.
- 1535
- 01:24:52,755 --> 01:24:55,382
- Here, I'm the kid
- from Brooklyn, right?
- 1536
- 01:24:55,549 --> 01:24:59,178
- Yet got into this
- world of Halston's
- 1537
- 01:24:59,345 --> 01:25:01,514
- castle, Olympic Tower.
- 1538
- 01:25:08,687 --> 01:25:10,064
- Look, Ma, I'm on television.
- 1539
- 01:25:10,231 --> 01:25:11,941
- - It's about time.
- 1540
- 01:25:12,107 --> 01:25:16,070
- - There was a kind of a pinkie
- throw, everywhere you went.
- 1541
- 01:25:18,322 --> 01:25:22,326
- Halston was a little bit
- Hollywood, in my parlance.
- 1542
- 01:25:23,828 --> 01:25:26,288
- But I thought we hit it off.
- 1543
- 01:25:32,753 --> 01:25:35,548
- - You'd never think Carl
- ever be with Halston.
- 1544
- 01:25:35,714 --> 01:25:39,176
- I mean, physically,
- mentally, anything.
- 1545
- 01:25:39,343 --> 01:25:42,972
- But when Carl came in,
- in a very strange way,
- 1546
- 01:25:43,138 --> 01:25:45,641
- Halston liked him a lot.
- 1547
- 01:25:45,808 --> 01:25:47,184
- - He kept saying,
- 1548
- 01:25:47,351 --> 01:25:49,603
- "I've never had the
- right kind of management.
- 1549
- 01:25:49,770 --> 01:25:51,981
- "And that's part
- of our problem."
- 1550
- 01:25:52,147 --> 01:25:54,441
- And he gives me a
- kiss on the forehead.
- 1551
- 01:25:54,608 --> 01:25:55,860
- It was wonderful.
- 1552
- 01:25:56,026 --> 01:25:58,654
- And then he says,
- "You're now the king."
- 1553
- 01:25:58,821 --> 01:26:01,448
- And he made, with
- his own hands,
- 1554
- 01:26:01,615 --> 01:26:04,577
- the crown that he gave me.
- 1555
- 01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,583
- - Halston, I think,
- honestly believed
- 1556
- 01:26:10,749 --> 01:26:15,087
- that Carl Epstein was going
- to mediate with big business.
- 1557
- 01:26:17,423 --> 01:26:19,925
- But I remember
- thinking to myself,
- 1558
- 01:26:20,092 --> 01:26:22,928
- well, there are two
- men in this room.
- 1559
- 01:26:23,095 --> 01:26:26,849
- But there's only one king
- at Halston Enterprises.
- 1560
- 01:26:33,105 --> 01:26:36,358
- Voila.
- 1561
- 01:26:36,525 --> 01:26:38,360
- I thought, hey, this is fun.
- 1562
- 01:26:38,527 --> 01:26:42,865
- Clothes had to be made for
- me similar to what he wears.
- 1563
- 01:26:43,032 --> 01:26:46,243
- Oh, my wife, my kids are
- getting all these clothes.
- 1564
- 01:26:46,410 --> 01:26:50,581
- And then one day, he
- introduces me to Liza Minnelli.
- 1565
- 01:26:52,166 --> 01:26:54,710
- I said, you know, this is,
- to hell with the business.
- 1566
- 01:26:54,877 --> 01:26:55,836
- This is great.
- 1567
- 01:26:56,962 --> 01:27:00,132
- You know, this is
- the way to live.
- 1568
- 01:27:00,299 --> 01:27:01,967
- - We had budget meetings
- and, apparently,
- 1569
- 01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:03,385
- theirs was a disaster.
- 1570
- 01:27:03,552 --> 01:27:06,805
- Carl was not doing
- what we agreed to.
- 1571
- 01:27:06,972 --> 01:27:08,599
- I'm at the top,
- 1572
- 01:27:08,766 --> 01:27:09,850
- and I don't care what's
- happening in the engine room.
- 1573
- 01:27:10,017 --> 01:27:11,810
- I know the engine
- isn't running.
- 1574
- 01:27:11,977 --> 01:27:13,854
- And it wasn't.
- 1575
- 01:27:14,021 --> 01:27:15,522
- Turn this into a brand.
- 1576
- 01:27:15,689 --> 01:27:17,816
- Turn this into
- something we can handle,
- 1577
- 01:27:17,983 --> 01:27:20,277
- and stop having it be
- this airy-fairy kind of,
- 1578
- 01:27:20,444 --> 01:27:22,780
- I work when I want to, I'm
- not inspired, I'm an artist
- 1579
- 01:27:22,947 --> 01:27:24,698
- kind of thing.
- 1580
- 01:27:24,865 --> 01:27:27,493
- - I read all the
- personnel files,
- 1581
- 01:27:27,660 --> 01:27:29,745
- and I had my rude awakening.
- 1582
- 01:27:29,912 --> 01:27:33,374
- D. D. Ryan, I have to laugh.
- 1583
- 01:27:34,500 --> 01:27:38,045
- Halston said, "Well, she's
- the resident geisha."
- 1584
- 01:27:40,965 --> 01:27:42,925
- Bill Dugan was another one.
- 1585
- 01:27:43,092 --> 01:27:45,219
- He said, "Well, he amuses me."
- 1586
- 01:27:46,303 --> 01:27:48,472
- And then he had Victor Hugo.
- 1587
- 01:27:48,639 --> 01:27:51,350
- I'll never forget once,
- he called me, frantic,
- 1588
- 01:27:51,517 --> 01:27:54,103
- Victor Hugo was gonna kill him.
- 1589
- 01:27:54,269 --> 01:27:59,149
- - Victor held the entire office
- captive for several hours.
- 1590
- 01:27:59,775 --> 01:28:01,902
- He was kind of like a mad dog.
- 1591
- 01:28:02,069 --> 01:28:03,779
- - Probably shocking to Carl,
- because I don't think Carl
- 1592
- 01:28:03,946 --> 01:28:06,198
- was in the habit of
- taking drugs, period.
- 1593
- 01:28:06,365 --> 01:28:08,701
- Except, you know, Pepto-Bismol.
- 1594
- 01:28:09,952 --> 01:28:12,413
- - I just decided to duck out
- and go to the Top of the Sixes
- 1595
- 01:28:12,579 --> 01:28:15,582
- and have some gin and tonics.
- 1596
- 01:28:15,749 --> 01:28:18,961
- - It was a crazy
- never-never land.
- 1597
- 01:28:19,128 --> 01:28:22,172
- Then, I checked all
- the expense stuff.
- 1598
- 01:28:22,339 --> 01:28:24,049
- And that blew my mind.
- 1599
- 01:28:24,216 --> 01:28:25,467
- The flowers.
- 1600
- 01:28:28,220 --> 01:28:30,472
- - Carl had me in
- to talk to me about
- 1601
- 01:28:30,639 --> 01:28:33,225
- what was being spent
- on the flower budget.
- 1602
- 01:28:33,392 --> 01:28:35,102
- And I said,
- 1603
- 01:28:35,269 --> 01:28:39,023
- yes, I know what's being spent
- on the flower budget, Carl.
- 1604
- 01:28:39,189 --> 01:28:41,734
- I'm writing up
- the bills myself.
- 1605
- 01:28:41,900 --> 01:28:43,610
- - Esmark believed you
- could have plastic plants
- 1606
- 01:28:43,777 --> 01:28:45,696
- instead of orchid plants.
- 1607
- 01:28:45,863 --> 01:28:46,864
- They're plants.
- 1608
- 01:28:48,115 --> 01:28:50,242
- - Entertainment,
- which was enormous.
- 1609
- 01:28:50,409 --> 01:28:52,411
- The kitchen cost.
- 1610
- 01:28:52,578 --> 01:28:55,080
- Example, they would
- prepare a meal for him
- 1611
- 01:28:55,247 --> 01:28:59,334
- while he's in Montauk, and
- put it on a private plane,
- 1612
- 01:28:59,501 --> 01:29:03,589
- fly it to Montauk, and
- deliver it to Halston's house.
- 1613
- 01:29:03,756 --> 01:29:06,341
- And that was a company expense?
- 1614
- 01:29:06,508 --> 01:29:09,678
- That meal must
- have cost $2,000.
- 1615
- 01:29:09,845 --> 01:29:14,183
- It was '80s.
- 1616
- 01:29:14,349 --> 01:29:17,102
- - Martha Graham was
- honored in Paris last night.
- 1617
- 01:29:17,269 --> 01:29:19,271
- She was presented with
- the Cross of the Chevalier
- 1618
- 01:29:19,438 --> 01:29:21,065
- of the Legion of Honor.
- 1619
- 01:29:21,231 --> 01:29:24,568
- - The honeymoon ended when
- he was going to go to Paris
- 1620
- 01:29:24,735 --> 01:29:26,862
- with Martha Graham.
- 1621
- 01:29:27,029 --> 01:29:29,990
- He's gonna take
- his staff with him.
- 1622
- 01:29:30,157 --> 01:29:33,243
- We calculated the
- cost of doing that.
- 1623
- 01:29:33,410 --> 01:29:36,872
- And just the workroom,
- it was 125,000.
- 1624
- 01:29:37,039 --> 01:29:40,584
- So I then told Halston,
- you can't do it.
- 1625
- 01:29:40,751 --> 01:29:42,628
- Halston was so incensed.
- 1626
- 01:29:43,879 --> 01:29:46,048
- "How dare you say no to me?"
- 1627
- 01:29:47,174 --> 01:29:48,884
- It was like Jekyll and Hyde.
- 1628
- 01:29:49,051 --> 01:29:51,053
- Suddenly Mr. Hyde came out.
- 1629
- 01:29:53,430 --> 01:29:55,724
- From then on, I was the enemy.
- 1630
- 01:29:57,476 --> 01:30:01,105
- - Carl, every morning, would
- put little sticky notes
- 1631
- 01:30:01,271 --> 01:30:04,983
- on Halston's table about
- what had to happen today,
- 1632
- 01:30:05,150 --> 01:30:07,027
- or what things were
- gonna be taken away.
- 1633
- 01:30:07,194 --> 01:30:09,822
- And he didn't like it.
- 1634
- 01:30:09,988 --> 01:30:11,657
- - We need to do this,
- we need to do that.
- 1635
- 01:30:11,824 --> 01:30:14,326
- And it was just like,
- you're bossing him around?
- 1636
- 01:30:14,493 --> 01:30:16,620
- Like, no one does that.
- 1637
- 01:30:16,787 --> 01:30:17,996
- - It was a big struggle.
- 1638
- 01:30:18,163 --> 01:30:19,498
- And it got worse and worse,
- 1639
- 01:30:19,665 --> 01:30:21,208
- and he started coming
- in later and later
- 1640
- 01:30:21,375 --> 01:30:27,339
- so he wouldn't have to deal
- with seeing those people.
- 1641
- 01:30:32,469 --> 01:30:35,180
- - Be careful, it's a
- little dark here, hold on.
- 1642
- 01:30:44,481 --> 01:30:46,984
- History is filled with wars.
- 1643
- 01:30:47,151 --> 01:30:49,153
- But you have to
- understand the difference
- 1644
- 01:30:49,319 --> 01:30:51,530
- between strategy and tactics.
- 1645
- 01:30:52,739 --> 01:30:54,783
- Strategy is the art of war.
- 1646
- 01:30:56,243 --> 01:30:58,412
- Tactics is the art of battle.
- 1647
- 01:31:00,455 --> 01:31:04,042
- The only real battle you must
- never lose is the last one.
- 1648
- 01:31:11,008 --> 01:31:14,052
- - There was rumor that a
- junior designer was coming in
- 1649
- 01:31:14,219 --> 01:31:18,098
- to help with the JCPenney,
- and just huge workload.
- 1650
- 01:31:21,018 --> 01:31:23,729
- - In the middle of February,
- picked up the phone,
- 1651
- 01:31:23,896 --> 01:31:28,108
- and this very deep voice said,
- "John Ridge, this is Halston."
- 1652
- 01:31:28,275 --> 01:31:30,861
- And he said, "Can
- you come see me?"
- 1653
- 01:31:31,028 --> 01:31:32,571
- So of course, I did.
- 1654
- 01:31:32,738 --> 01:31:36,491
- And it turned out that it
- wasn't really an interview.
- 1655
- 01:31:36,658 --> 01:31:39,870
- It was, "When can you start?"
- 1656
- 01:31:40,037 --> 01:31:42,831
- And I think he just needed
- to know there was one head,
- 1657
- 01:31:42,998 --> 01:31:46,376
- two arms, and that I knew
- who Charles James was.
- 1658
- 01:32:04,394 --> 01:32:06,521
- - Probably after a month,
- I went to Carl and said,
- 1659
- 01:32:06,688 --> 01:32:10,067
- I'm leaving, this is just
- an impossible situation.
- 1660
- 01:32:10,234 --> 01:32:11,360
- We were there
- until eight, nine.
- 1661
- 01:32:11,526 --> 01:32:13,779
- We never knew when
- we were leaving.
- 1662
- 01:32:13,946 --> 01:32:17,741
- I can't be responsible for
- what the workroom cost.
- 1663
- 01:32:17,908 --> 01:32:19,576
- And Carl said to me,
- 1664
- 01:32:19,743 --> 01:32:22,913
- "Don't leave, things
- are going to change."
- 1665
- 01:32:27,376 --> 01:32:30,087
- - There was something
- called the Werner Report.
- 1666
- 01:32:30,254 --> 01:32:33,465
- But it was so hush
- hush, I didn't see it
- 1667
- 01:32:33,632 --> 01:32:37,469
- until probably seven or eight
- months after I was there.
- 1668
- 01:32:37,636 --> 01:32:38,971
- When I read it,
- 1669
- 01:32:39,137 --> 01:32:41,974
- it dawned on me that
- everything was tactical.
- 1670
- 01:32:42,140 --> 01:32:44,226
- They were gonna
- solve their problem
- 1671
- 01:32:44,393 --> 01:32:46,395
- by how we train the staff,
- 1672
- 01:32:46,561 --> 01:32:50,023
- how we make the staff
- unafraid of Halston.
- 1673
- 01:32:50,190 --> 01:32:54,778
- How they would learn to cope
- with Halston and his tirades.
- 1674
- 01:32:55,195 --> 01:32:56,989
- Mahoney's attitude was,
- 1675
- 01:32:57,155 --> 01:33:00,784
- we are not gonna try
- to control Halston.
- 1676
- 01:33:00,951 --> 01:33:04,037
- My strategy was going
- back to square one.
- 1677
- 01:33:05,455 --> 01:33:08,583
- Sometimes the kindest thing
- in the world you can do is
- 1678
- 01:33:08,750 --> 01:33:10,168
- to say no to somebody.
- 1679
- 01:33:11,628 --> 01:33:14,423
- He started coming in at four
- o'clock in the afternoon,
- 1680
- 01:33:14,589 --> 01:33:16,758
- and he wants the
- workroom to wait for him
- 1681
- 01:33:16,925 --> 01:33:18,635
- to come in at that time.
- 1682
- 01:33:18,802 --> 01:33:21,763
- I told him, it's
- not gonna happen.
- 1683
- 01:33:21,930 --> 01:33:26,226
- They're gonna leave at five
- o'clock, period, done, over.
- 1684
- 01:33:28,145 --> 01:33:30,147
- In the final analysis,
- 1685
- 01:33:30,314 --> 01:33:33,358
- he is like me and
- everybody else in that place,
- 1686
- 01:33:33,525 --> 01:33:35,068
- an employee.
- 1687
- 01:33:35,235 --> 01:33:36,695
- - Carl was answerable.
- 1688
- 01:33:36,862 --> 01:33:39,698
- And, you know, it's all
- about the bottom line.
- 1689
- 01:33:39,865 --> 01:33:41,575
- - That's
- right, we knew that.
- 1690
- 01:33:41,742 --> 01:33:46,163
- - I suppose he was there to
- just slowly push Halston out.
- 1691
- 01:33:46,330 --> 01:33:47,581
- They had the brand.
- 1692
- 01:33:47,748 --> 01:33:50,584
- Halston was the diva designer
- 1693
- 01:33:50,751 --> 01:33:54,379
- that they didn't
- necessarily need anymore.
- 1694
- 01:33:54,546 --> 01:33:57,424
- Halston started
- taking legal counsel.
- 1695
- 01:34:00,052 --> 01:34:03,221
- - When I first met him,
- he was quite distraught.
- 1696
- 01:34:03,388 --> 01:34:05,349
- He was so frustrated
- and so angry
- 1697
- 01:34:05,515 --> 01:34:09,561
- he had trouble completing
- sentences and thoughts.
- 1698
- 01:34:09,728 --> 01:34:11,355
- Suddenly he was cast adrift.
- 1699
- 01:34:11,521 --> 01:34:13,190
- Well, I guess I can best put
- it the way Halston put it,
- 1700
- 01:34:13,357 --> 01:34:16,610
- that the folks from
- Planet Tampon landed
- 1701
- 01:34:16,777 --> 01:34:17,903
- on Planet Halston.
- 1702
- 01:34:20,947 --> 01:34:22,032
- - I'm going to
- pass this back and forth
- 1703
- 01:34:22,199 --> 01:34:23,575
- like this.
- - Okay, all right.
- 1704
- 01:34:23,742 --> 01:34:24,659
- - You don't
- have to worry about.
- 1705
- 01:34:24,826 --> 01:34:26,411
- - I saw him tired at times.
- 1706
- 01:34:26,578 --> 01:34:28,872
- I thought he was really tired.
- 1707
- 01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:32,084
- - One time I came in,
- 1708
- 01:34:32,250 --> 01:34:35,670
- and I think he might
- have had a panic session.
- 1709
- 01:34:38,006 --> 01:34:39,633
- He just seemed very stressed.
- 1710
- 01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:40,759
- And I said, can I do anything?
- 1711
- 01:34:40,926 --> 01:34:42,844
- He said, "No, just sit here.
- 1712
- 01:34:43,011 --> 01:34:44,262
- "Just sit here."
- 1713
- 01:34:44,429 --> 01:34:47,432
- And we sat there for,
- like, 30 minutes.
- 1714
- 01:34:47,599 --> 01:34:50,268
- Wow, that's new.
- 1715
- 01:34:51,770 --> 01:34:56,274
- - Halston never asked me what
- I thought of his collection.
- 1716
- 01:35:01,238 --> 01:35:04,825
- This time, he asked me what
- I thought of his collection.
- 1717
- 01:35:04,991 --> 01:35:07,285
- And, honestly, it was like
- someone had punched me
- 1718
- 01:35:07,452 --> 01:35:12,082
- in my stomach, because I
- knew that he was feeling
- 1719
- 01:35:12,249 --> 01:35:14,209
- not as strong as he had been.
- 1720
- 01:35:14,376 --> 01:35:15,961
- And it made me sad.
- 1721
- 01:35:18,588 --> 01:35:20,298
- - If you
- lived in another epoch
- 1722
- 01:35:20,465 --> 01:35:23,593
- in another time in another
- city, could you pick it for me?
- 1723
- 01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:24,428
- - Oh, no way.
- 1724
- 01:35:24,594 --> 01:35:25,804
- I like right now.
- 1725
- 01:35:25,971 --> 01:35:27,139
- And tomorrow's
- going to be better,
- 1726
- 01:35:27,305 --> 01:35:28,807
- and next week is
- going to be better.
- 1727
- 01:35:28,974 --> 01:35:30,767
- No, no, no, I'm the
- all-time optimist.
- 1728
- 01:35:30,934 --> 01:35:33,061
- No, I like right now.
- 1729
- 01:35:33,228 --> 01:35:35,605
- - The problem was simply drugs.
- 1730
- 01:35:37,941 --> 01:35:40,193
- He had gone way too far.
- 1731
- 01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:42,320
- - I don't do tuxedos.
- 1732
- 01:35:42,487 --> 01:35:44,281
- - He was out of control.
- 1733
- 01:35:45,824 --> 01:35:50,829
- Out of control was symmetrical
- with Esmark taking over.
- 1734
- 01:35:50,996 --> 01:35:53,874
- So you tell me which is the
- chicken and which is the egg.
- 1735
- 01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:56,793
- - Some time in that spring,
- Liza went to Betty Ford.
- 1736
- 01:35:56,960 --> 01:36:00,714
- And Halston said, "It's great
- that things like this exist
- 1737
- 01:36:00,881 --> 01:36:02,007
- "for those who need them.
- 1738
- 01:36:02,174 --> 01:36:03,425
- "Of course, the rest of us
- 1739
- 01:36:03,592 --> 01:36:05,760
- "have to get on
- and earn a living."
- 1740
- 01:36:07,471 --> 01:36:11,641
- - Very hard to do an interview
- about your best friend,
- 1741
- 01:36:13,059 --> 01:36:15,896
- especially if what's
- popular in that day and age
- 1742
- 01:36:16,062 --> 01:36:17,689
- is digging a little.
- 1743
- 01:36:17,856 --> 01:36:19,191
- I don't like it.
- 1744
- 01:36:19,357 --> 01:36:21,026
- I hated it when they
- did it to my mother
- 1745
- 01:36:21,193 --> 01:36:23,028
- or my father or myself.
- 1746
- 01:36:23,195 --> 01:36:26,698
- And I won't do it to
- Halston, I just won't.
- 1747
- 01:36:26,865 --> 01:36:28,658
- I refuse.
- 1748
- 01:36:37,459 --> 01:36:40,795
- - In June, he had summer
- to do for JCPenney,
- 1749
- 01:36:42,255 --> 01:36:45,383
- Which was way late
- at that point.
- 1750
- 01:36:45,550 --> 01:36:47,511
- - Halston cooled off.
- 1751
- 01:36:47,677 --> 01:36:50,055
- He don't want do
- JCPenney anymore.
- 1752
- 01:36:50,222 --> 01:36:51,556
- I don't know why,
- 1753
- 01:36:51,723 --> 01:36:53,683
- but that's when everything
- went upside-down.
- 1754
- 01:36:57,646 --> 01:36:59,147
- - I think he thought
- that if he went on strike
- 1755
- 01:36:59,314 --> 01:37:02,067
- and didn't design
- the collections
- 1756
- 01:37:02,234 --> 01:37:06,238
- that he had some power over
- the situation, you know.
- 1757
- 01:37:07,405 --> 01:37:09,074
- - I'm getting calls
- from JCPenney saying,
- 1758
- 01:37:09,241 --> 01:37:10,909
- "Where are our products?
- 1759
- 01:37:11,076 --> 01:37:12,452
- "Where are the designs?
- 1760
- 01:37:12,619 --> 01:37:14,829
- "He hasn't approved them."
- 1761
- 01:37:14,996 --> 01:37:18,041
- And whether he was doing
- that to get revenge on Carl,
- 1762
- 01:37:18,208 --> 01:37:20,001
- or whether he was doing it
- because he was doped up,
- 1763
- 01:37:20,168 --> 01:37:21,795
- it wasn't happening.
- 1764
- 01:37:21,962 --> 01:37:23,380
- - They were very frustrated
- 1765
- 01:37:23,547 --> 01:37:27,217
- because they couldn't get
- sketches from Halston.
- 1766
- 01:37:27,384 --> 01:37:28,885
- So one day, I
- drew them a jacket
- 1767
- 01:37:29,052 --> 01:37:30,387
- 'cause they had to
- have a jacket,
- 1768
- 01:37:30,554 --> 01:37:31,680
- and Halston wasn't there,
- 1769
- 01:37:31,846 --> 01:37:35,433
- and I, well, he
- was not too happy
- 1770
- 01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:37,811
- that I'd given them a sketch.
- 1771
- 01:37:39,646 --> 01:37:43,108
- But Penney's was
- very happy about it.
- 1772
- 01:37:43,275 --> 01:37:45,652
- And I think that they went
- away viewing me as a source
- 1773
- 01:37:45,819 --> 01:37:49,656
- that they could turn
- to and get something.
- 1774
- 01:37:49,823 --> 01:37:51,866
- And that was kind
- of the beginning
- 1775
- 01:37:52,033 --> 01:37:55,203
- of my personal
- relationship with Penney's.
- 1776
- 01:37:56,496 --> 01:37:57,664
- - It
- is inappropriate
- 1777
- 01:37:57,831 --> 01:37:59,583
- to have John Ridge
- involved in areas
- 1778
- 01:37:59,749 --> 01:38:02,043
- which do not fall under
- his responsibilities,
- 1779
- 01:38:02,210 --> 01:38:03,878
- signed Halston.
- 1780
- 01:38:04,045 --> 01:38:06,423
- To John Ridge
- from Carl Epstein.
- 1781
- 01:38:06,590 --> 01:38:08,800
- Please keep up the good work.
- 1782
- 01:38:10,010 --> 01:38:13,221
- - Carl was hell-bent
- on isolating Halston.
- 1783
- 01:38:14,472 --> 01:38:16,850
- Halston felt that he could
- no longer work with Carl.
- 1784
- 01:38:17,017 --> 01:38:19,519
- All he was good
- at was destroying.
- 1785
- 01:38:21,229 --> 01:38:22,522
- We decided the best
- thing for Halston
- 1786
- 01:38:22,689 --> 01:38:24,232
- would be to go to Montauk
- 1787
- 01:38:24,399 --> 01:38:28,361
- and give everybody a chance
- to take a deep breath.
- 1788
- 01:38:28,528 --> 01:38:31,448
- We thought that there would
- be a deep breath taken also
- 1789
- 01:38:31,615 --> 01:38:33,825
- on the part of
- the Esmark people.
- 1790
- 01:38:33,992 --> 01:38:35,619
- Turned out not to be the case.
- 1791
- 01:38:37,912 --> 01:38:40,582
- - Carl started
- cleaning house.
- 1792
- 01:38:40,749 --> 01:38:44,002
- D. D. Ryan, Bill Dugan.
- 1793
- 01:38:44,169 --> 01:38:46,254
- - I was fired.
- 1794
- 01:38:46,421 --> 01:38:48,590
- - May I have your
- attention, please?
- 1795
- 01:38:48,757 --> 01:38:50,008
- - They couldn't touch me
- 1796
- 01:38:50,175 --> 01:38:52,052
- because he still
- had an office there
- 1797
- 01:38:52,218 --> 01:38:54,888
- and I was still his secretary.
- 1798
- 01:38:55,055 --> 01:38:57,515
- I remember him calling me.
- 1799
- 01:38:57,682 --> 01:39:00,810
- Carl held a meeting in
- front of all the employees
- 1800
- 01:39:00,977 --> 01:39:03,063
- at Halston Enterprises.
- 1801
- 01:39:03,229 --> 01:39:07,067
- He said that it would no
- longer be a one-man show.
- 1802
- 01:39:08,318 --> 01:39:09,819
- John David Ridge was promoted
- 1803
- 01:39:09,986 --> 01:39:12,739
- and would be in
- charge of the design.
- 1804
- 01:39:14,282 --> 01:39:15,742
- He is livid.
- 1805
- 01:39:15,909 --> 01:39:16,993
- "It's my name on the label.
- 1806
- 01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:18,745
- "How dare you?"
- 1807
- 01:39:18,912 --> 01:39:20,872
- - It was his
- company, his people,
- 1808
- 01:39:21,039 --> 01:39:23,458
- his workers, everything.
- 1809
- 01:39:23,625 --> 01:39:25,085
- So, we went back
- 1810
- 01:39:25,251 --> 01:39:29,881
- and it unraveled into a
- very unpleasant scenario.
- 1811
- 01:39:30,048 --> 01:39:32,592
- - It was like having two
- chefs in the kitchen.
- 1812
- 01:39:32,759 --> 01:39:35,845
- Everybody was saying,
- well, let's divide
- 1813
- 01:39:36,012 --> 01:39:37,180
- the space up there,
- 1814
- 01:39:37,347 --> 01:39:38,890
- and this half is Halston
- 1815
- 01:39:39,057 --> 01:39:41,935
- and this other half is
- Halston III with John Ridge.
- 1816
- 01:39:42,102 --> 01:39:44,062
- - At some point, I said no.
- 1817
- 01:39:45,397 --> 01:39:48,608
- No, you can get someone else
- to do it, but I'm not going.
- 1818
- 01:39:48,775 --> 01:39:52,904
- I knew, at this point, I knew
- Halston pretty well, the man.
- 1819
- 01:39:53,071 --> 01:39:56,324
- - There was a lot
- of angst going on.
- 1820
- 01:39:56,491 --> 01:39:59,160
- And so, I had my first
- meeting with Roy.
- 1821
- 01:39:59,327 --> 01:40:01,037
- "Yes, Bregman, what
- can I do for you?"
- 1822
- 01:40:01,204 --> 01:40:06,251
- And I'd say, well, Roy, that
- was the beginning.
- 1823
- 01:40:11,381 --> 01:40:13,091
- He was talking about going
- into another business.
- 1824
- 01:40:13,258 --> 01:40:15,093
- That's why I started
- calling him Roy.
- 1825
- 01:40:15,260 --> 01:40:17,345
- I said, you don't
- own your name, pal.
- 1826
- 01:40:17,512 --> 01:40:18,388
- Read the small print.
- 1827
- 01:40:18,555 --> 01:40:19,973
- We own your name.
- 1828
- 01:40:24,436 --> 01:40:26,438
- - This was all blowing up.
- 1829
- 01:40:27,647 --> 01:40:32,652
- They said to me, "I want you
- to go in and talk to him."
- 1830
- 01:40:32,819 --> 01:40:34,571
- I was there that morning, too,
- we were sitting, he and I,
- 1831
- 01:40:34,738 --> 01:40:38,032
- in his office, till about
- one, 1:30 in the morning.
- 1832
- 01:40:38,199 --> 01:40:41,369
- And he said to me,
- "We can do this."
- 1833
- 01:40:41,536 --> 01:40:43,663
- I said, we can do what?
- 1834
- 01:40:43,830 --> 01:40:46,791
- He said, "We can take this over
- 1835
- 01:40:46,958 --> 01:40:48,168
- "and get it away
- from the corporation
- 1836
- 01:40:48,334 --> 01:40:49,544
- "and run it as an."
- 1837
- 01:40:49,711 --> 01:40:52,005
- I said, Halston, it
- would never work.
- 1838
- 01:40:52,172 --> 01:40:53,715
- Where is this money
- gonna come from?
- 1839
- 01:40:53,882 --> 01:40:57,010
- I said, do you know how
- much money you spend?
- 1840
- 01:40:57,177 --> 01:40:58,470
- And how luxurious.
- 1841
- 01:40:59,721 --> 01:41:01,347
- I said, just take
- a look around.
- 1842
- 01:41:01,514 --> 01:41:03,433
- You've had the
- biggest and the best.
- 1843
- 01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:07,520
- And this kind of money is
- not gonna be found again.
- 1844
- 01:41:11,983 --> 01:41:15,695
- - They requested, and I put
- that in quotation marks,
- 1845
- 01:41:15,862 --> 01:41:18,656
- that I not be present
- at the meeting.
- 1846
- 01:41:21,159 --> 01:41:22,494
- I'm sitting in my office,
- 1847
- 01:41:22,660 --> 01:41:25,371
- and I felt like
- having a cup of tea.
- 1848
- 01:41:25,538 --> 01:41:27,248
- So I thought I'd go
- into the kitchen.
- 1849
- 01:41:27,415 --> 01:41:30,627
- I go to the door, put
- my key in the lock,
- 1850
- 01:41:30,794 --> 01:41:32,170
- key is not working.
- 1851
- 01:41:34,130 --> 01:41:35,715
- I couldn't understand,
- why the key?
- 1852
- 01:41:35,882 --> 01:41:38,426
- So I run around
- to the front door.
- 1853
- 01:41:39,719 --> 01:41:43,306
- And there's a guy working on
- the door there, a locksmith.
- 1854
- 01:41:43,473 --> 01:41:45,308
- He's changing the locks.
- 1855
- 01:41:46,601 --> 01:41:48,603
- I said, who hired you?
- 1856
- 01:41:48,770 --> 01:41:49,729
- - Mr. Halston.
- 1857
- 01:41:50,980 --> 01:41:58,530
- - I stormed into that meeting,
- and I just blew my top.
- 1858
- 01:41:59,697 --> 01:42:02,200
- Even his lawyer was shocked.
- 1859
- 01:42:02,367 --> 01:42:04,577
- No, Halston
- didn't change the locks.
- 1860
- 01:42:04,744 --> 01:42:05,912
- He was locked out.
- 1861
- 01:42:07,831 --> 01:42:10,208
- Carl admitted he
- changed the locks.
- 1862
- 01:42:10,375 --> 01:42:12,085
- - Job is done, Mr. Epstein.
- 1863
- 01:42:12,252 --> 01:42:13,753
- - You
- actually admitted it.
- 1864
- 01:42:13,920 --> 01:42:15,588
- - I admitted it?
- 1865
- 01:42:15,755 --> 01:42:18,758
- - In Women's Wear
- Daily, several months later.
- 1866
- 01:42:18,925 --> 01:42:23,388
- When there was a story about
- trouble at the Olympic Tower.
- 1867
- 01:42:25,932 --> 01:42:29,853
- - I said, look, that's
- it, I've had it.
- 1868
- 01:42:30,019 --> 01:42:31,437
- You know, I don't wanna
- have to think about
- 1869
- 01:42:31,604 --> 01:42:33,022
- somebody changing the locks.
- 1870
- 01:42:33,189 --> 01:42:35,733
- Either he goes or I go.
- 1871
- 01:42:40,780 --> 01:42:43,032
- - When Epstein gave 'em
- the signal, they said,
- 1872
- 01:42:43,199 --> 01:42:45,577
- "We're done, you're done."
- 1873
- 01:42:45,743 --> 01:42:49,455
- And Halston was out.
- 1874
- 01:42:54,419 --> 01:42:56,129
- - It was weird.
- 1875
- 01:42:56,296 --> 01:43:02,135
- It was surreal that this coup
- d'etat happened so quickly.
- 1876
- 01:43:07,140 --> 01:43:10,351
- - I was very
- heartbroken for him.
- 1877
- 01:43:10,518 --> 01:43:12,896
- He was like a man
- without a country.
- 1878
- 01:43:13,062 --> 01:43:14,272
- The Halston name,
- 1879
- 01:43:15,815 --> 01:43:18,610
- that was the most important
- thing in his entire life,
- 1880
- 01:43:18,776 --> 01:43:23,031
- could be used by
- that corporation
- 1881
- 01:43:23,197 --> 01:43:24,616
- without his consent.
- 1882
- 01:43:24,782 --> 01:43:28,328
- - Halston Enterprises
- and Organization MINE,
- 1883
- 01:43:28,494 --> 01:43:32,874
- a symbolic signing of the
- licensing agreement for Mexico.
- 1884
- 01:43:41,299 --> 01:43:42,175
- - Hola.
- 1885
- 01:43:42,342 --> 01:43:44,344
- ♪ Halston ♪
- 1886
- 01:44:00,443 --> 01:44:02,278
- - Week after
- week, month after month,
- 1887
- 01:44:02,445 --> 01:44:06,324
- he realized that he didn't
- have much clout anymore
- 1888
- 01:44:06,491 --> 01:44:07,784
- with the company.
- 1889
- 01:44:10,620 --> 01:44:11,913
- - When one comes in
- to make a company healthy,
- 1890
- 01:44:12,080 --> 01:44:15,458
- it depends how
- you define health.
- 1891
- 01:44:15,625 --> 01:44:17,502
- - People were
- suddenly at peace,
- 1892
- 01:44:17,669 --> 01:44:21,339
- had comfortable jobs,
- were not being shouted at.
- 1893
- 01:44:22,924 --> 01:44:24,342
- - We had not much to do.
- 1894
- 01:44:24,509 --> 01:44:25,969
- No movie star.
- 1895
- 01:44:26,135 --> 01:44:27,512
- No celebrity.
- 1896
- 01:44:27,679 --> 01:44:30,890
- JCPenney, and that's it.
- 1897
- 01:44:31,307 --> 01:44:33,142
- And not even,
- because at one point
- 1898
- 01:44:33,309 --> 01:44:35,186
- they used to do
- everything in China.
- 1899
- 01:44:35,353 --> 01:44:37,563
- We just would send the pattern,
- 1900
- 01:44:37,730 --> 01:44:40,692
- and they used to make
- everything there.
- 1901
- 01:44:44,362 --> 01:44:45,738
- - Carl told me one day
- 1902
- 01:44:45,905 --> 01:44:48,700
- that he was gonna sell
- off all the samples.
- 1903
- 01:44:53,746 --> 01:44:58,001
- - That was his record
- that should be in a museum,
- 1904
- 01:44:58,167 --> 01:45:01,671
- and they decided to sell
- those important pieces
- 1905
- 01:45:01,838 --> 01:45:04,090
- for 25 bucks, 50 bucks apiece.
- 1906
- 01:45:08,177 --> 01:45:09,303
- - But it was just
- stuff sitting there,
- 1907
- 01:45:09,470 --> 01:45:11,848
- year after year, doing nothing.
- 1908
- 01:45:15,977 --> 01:45:18,980
- - Some pieces went here,
- some pieces went there.
- 1909
- 01:45:19,147 --> 01:45:25,236
- But the mother lode of it
- is gone, eliminated, erased.
- 1910
- 01:45:26,070 --> 01:45:27,989
- It was hostile.
- 1911
- 01:45:28,156 --> 01:45:30,158
- - There was nothing
- personal about it.
- 1912
- 01:45:30,324 --> 01:45:32,285
- If you want to call
- something personal,
- 1913
- 01:45:32,452 --> 01:45:33,828
- I really didn't give a damn
- 1914
- 01:45:33,995 --> 01:45:36,497
- what Halston's
- reaction would be.
- 1915
- 01:45:36,664 --> 01:45:38,374
- We were beyond that.
- 1916
- 01:45:38,541 --> 01:45:41,419
- - Why not
- give it to a museum?
- 1917
- 01:45:44,672 --> 01:45:45,882
- - And then there was a bookcase
- 1918
- 01:45:46,049 --> 01:45:48,426
- full of video
- tapes of the shows.
- 1919
- 01:45:48,593 --> 01:45:50,178
- Said to Carl, well,
- I want these tapes.
- 1920
- 01:45:50,344 --> 01:45:52,388
- He said, "No,
- Halston has copies."
- 1921
- 01:45:54,223 --> 01:45:55,850
- How do you do?
- 1922
- 01:45:56,017 --> 01:45:57,143
- I'm Halston.
- 1923
- 01:45:57,310 --> 01:45:58,770
- - Carl said he was
- gonna erase them
- 1924
- 01:45:58,936 --> 01:46:01,898
- and sell the blanks
- to the next tenant.
- 1925
- 01:46:07,445 --> 01:46:09,238
- - Everyone thinks you're
- an overnight success.
- 1926
- 01:46:09,405 --> 01:46:12,033
- I had worked very
- hard for 20 years.
- 1927
- 01:46:12,200 --> 01:46:13,076
- This is.
- 1928
- 01:46:13,242 --> 01:46:16,120
- ♪ Happy birthday to me ♪
- 1929
- 01:46:24,504 --> 01:46:27,215
- - There is no home
- in Iowa, you see.
- 1930
- 01:46:48,194 --> 01:46:50,822
- - I really wanted
- to show this photo.
- 1931
- 01:46:50,988 --> 01:46:55,451
- So, my grandparents, this is
- Hallie Mae and James Edward.
- 1932
- 01:46:57,662 --> 01:46:59,247
- They were working class.
- 1933
- 01:46:59,413 --> 01:47:04,085
- My grandmother, I'm not sure,
- made it past ninth grade.
- 1934
- 01:47:04,252 --> 01:47:06,003
- They had four children.
- 1935
- 01:47:07,922 --> 01:47:09,841
- My father first.
- 1936
- 01:47:10,007 --> 01:47:13,719
- And then Roy Halston
- Frowick came along in 1932.
- 1937
- 01:47:18,057 --> 01:47:19,142
- You know, times were tough.
- 1938
- 01:47:19,308 --> 01:47:21,561
- Grew up in the Depression era.
- 1939
- 01:47:24,188 --> 01:47:26,649
- Halston and my father weren't
- close with their father.
- 1940
- 01:47:26,816 --> 01:47:29,527
- They loved him, but
- he had a temper.
- 1941
- 01:47:32,280 --> 01:47:34,615
- My grandmother took
- him under her wing
- 1942
- 01:47:34,782 --> 01:47:37,910
- and was sort of protecting him.
- 1943
- 01:47:38,077 --> 01:47:42,456
- She was a sweet, sweet,
- soft-spoken, very mellow woman,
- 1944
- 01:47:42,623 --> 01:47:46,669
- and you just felt
- so calm around her.
- 1945
- 01:47:51,716 --> 01:47:54,760
- When she passed away, Halston
- was in the middle of JCPenney,
- 1946
- 01:47:54,927 --> 01:47:56,929
- but he didn't tell
- them anything.
- 1947
- 01:47:57,096 --> 01:47:59,265
- He just said he had to leave.
- 1948
- 01:48:01,267 --> 01:48:02,894
- He suffered silently.
- 1949
- 01:48:06,564 --> 01:48:10,067
- Halston wasn't estranged
- from his family per se,
- 1950
- 01:48:10,234 --> 01:48:12,528
- it's just that the
- family's very conservative.
- 1951
- 01:48:12,695 --> 01:48:16,490
- He felt that they wouldn't
- understand his lifestyle
- 1952
- 01:48:16,657 --> 01:48:19,368
- with Victor there, and although
- he was constantly trying
- 1953
- 01:48:19,535 --> 01:48:21,746
- to get him out of his
- life, and I was there.
- 1954
- 01:48:21,913 --> 01:48:23,581
- And eventually he did.
- 1955
- 01:48:25,917 --> 01:48:29,086
- I kept trying to tell him to
- reconnect with his siblings,
- 1956
- 01:48:29,253 --> 01:48:31,255
- telling him, they're
- not gonna judge you.
- 1957
- 01:48:31,422 --> 01:48:33,090
- The family's there for you.
- 1958
- 01:48:33,257 --> 01:48:35,676
- And at a certain point,
- 1959
- 01:48:35,843 --> 01:48:39,305
- I helped him organize the first
- family reunion in Montauk.
- 1960
- 01:48:48,814 --> 01:48:51,108
- He let his hair down
- 1961
- 01:48:51,275 --> 01:48:54,654
- and was the brother that
- he was 40 years prior.
- 1962
- 01:48:59,533 --> 01:49:02,828
- But he was who he was,
- so he had to plan it,
- 1963
- 01:49:02,995 --> 01:49:05,248
- every moment of it.
- 1964
- 01:49:05,414 --> 01:49:08,584
- They got all white sweat
- suits for one event,
- 1965
- 01:49:08,751 --> 01:49:12,296
- and they got all Army
- uniforms for the safari.
- 1966
- 01:49:14,173 --> 01:49:16,759
- - He loved life and you
- could tell that about him.
- 1967
- 01:49:16,926 --> 01:49:17,969
- You could tell.
- 1968
- 01:49:20,346 --> 01:49:25,101
- - I think he just wanted,
- maybe to slow down a little.
- 1969
- 01:49:25,268 --> 01:49:26,769
- Being a regular person.
- 1970
- 01:49:28,104 --> 01:49:30,564
- Here, he was Halston.
- 1971
- 01:49:30,731 --> 01:49:33,901
- But I think inside,
- he was, you know, Roy.
- 1972
- 01:49:38,781 --> 01:49:41,033
- - It came to a
- point where he said,
- 1973
- 01:49:41,200 --> 01:49:44,620
- "I'm not gonna be able
- to go back to designing,
- 1974
- 01:49:44,787 --> 01:49:47,290
- "so you need to kind of
- pursue your own life."
- 1975
- 01:49:47,456 --> 01:49:49,292
- You know, he didn't
- want to hold me back.
- 1976
- 01:49:49,458 --> 01:49:54,130
- So I decided to
- move to California.
- 1977
- 01:49:57,967 --> 01:50:00,803
- It was a difficult
- decision to make.
- 1978
- 01:50:00,970 --> 01:50:02,471
- But I bought a car
- 1979
- 01:50:02,638 --> 01:50:04,932
- and told him I wanted
- to take him for a drive
- 1980
- 01:50:05,099 --> 01:50:08,269
- up the Hudson River
- to blow off the stink.
- 1981
- 01:50:12,064 --> 01:50:14,442
- It was a beautiful,
- sunny Sunday.
- 1982
- 01:50:14,608 --> 01:50:16,819
- And at certain point,
- through the chatter, he said,
- 1983
- 01:50:16,986 --> 01:50:19,322
- "Well, I have to
- tell you something."
- 1984
- 01:50:19,488 --> 01:50:20,906
- And he revealed to
- me at that point
- 1985
- 01:50:21,073 --> 01:50:23,034
- that he was sick with HIV.
- 1986
- 01:50:24,493 --> 01:50:28,039
- And I just shut down and
- started freaking out.
- 1987
- 01:50:29,957 --> 01:50:32,668
- And he said, "It's
- not a death sentence."
- 1988
- 01:50:32,835 --> 01:50:34,879
- So I did the stiff
- upper lip thing,
- 1989
- 01:50:35,046 --> 01:50:37,298
- 'cause he didn't
- like people to cry,
- 1990
- 01:50:37,465 --> 01:50:38,924
- and just went
- along with it like,
- 1991
- 01:50:39,091 --> 01:50:41,594
- no, it's not a
- death sentence, no.
- 1992
- 01:50:45,389 --> 01:50:46,891
- But you have to remember,
- 1993
- 01:50:47,058 --> 01:50:49,393
- so many people were
- getting sick in those days.
- 1994
- 01:50:49,560 --> 01:50:52,313
- - The fashion industry here
- is being devastated by AIDS.
- 1995
- 01:50:52,480 --> 01:50:54,190
- - When Perry
- Ellis died in 1986,
- 1996
- 01:50:54,357 --> 01:50:56,192
- his company denied
- it was AIDS-related.
- 1997
- 01:50:56,359 --> 01:50:58,110
- - There is no drug,
- there is no treatment,
- 1998
- 01:50:58,277 --> 01:51:01,113
- there's no vaccine, there's no
- prevention, there is no cure.
- 1999
- 01:51:01,280 --> 01:51:03,074
- - No one was beating it.
- 2000
- 01:51:04,575 --> 01:51:05,785
- I was terrified.
- 2001
- 01:51:06,952 --> 01:51:09,205
- I was scared for him.
- 2002
- 01:51:09,372 --> 01:51:10,498
- - I didn't wanna leave.
- 2003
- 01:51:10,664 --> 01:51:12,124
- I kept asking him
- and asking him,
- 2004
- 01:51:12,291 --> 01:51:14,377
- and even the last day I
- said, I can stay here.
- 2005
- 01:51:14,543 --> 01:51:17,338
- I can live here, I can be
- your nurse, I can take you,
- 2006
- 01:51:17,505 --> 01:51:19,507
- I can get your stuff if
- you don't want to go out.
- 2007
- 01:51:19,673 --> 01:51:24,053
- And he was like, "No, I
- don't want you to do that."
- 2008
- 01:51:24,220 --> 01:51:27,306
- So I left.
- 2009
- 01:51:37,400 --> 01:51:41,028
- - He handled it the way
- he had to handle it.
- 2010
- 01:51:41,195 --> 01:51:43,489
- You know, denial, and then
- fighting it and saying,
- 2011
- 01:51:43,656 --> 01:51:44,698
- "No, this is not
- gonna take me."
- 2012
- 01:51:44,865 --> 01:51:47,451
- And then finally
- realizing it had.
- 2013
- 01:51:59,213 --> 01:52:00,965
- He decided to sell the house.
- 2014
- 01:52:15,980 --> 01:52:17,690
- - He decided
- he was gonna live
- 2015
- 01:52:17,857 --> 01:52:22,278
- his last moments of his life
- with his family in California.
- 2016
- 01:52:24,363 --> 01:52:26,657
- He didn't want anybody to know,
- 2017
- 01:52:26,824 --> 01:52:30,828
- so I didn't tell anybody
- until I had to tell my dad.
- 2018
- 01:52:35,374 --> 01:52:39,587
- - He left, and he
- completely hid away
- 2019
- 01:52:39,753 --> 01:52:41,839
- and didn't want
- anybody to see him.
- 2020
- 01:52:42,006 --> 01:52:44,383
- - We would write him letters.
- 2021
- 01:52:48,554 --> 01:52:51,432
- - I did not know
- that he was ill.
- 2022
- 01:52:51,599 --> 01:52:53,726
- I wish I could call him now.
- 2023
- 01:52:56,187 --> 01:52:59,982
- - That was a period
- of people I knew
- 2024
- 01:53:00,733 --> 01:53:03,611
- that they will never come back.
- 2025
- 01:53:03,777 --> 01:53:05,237
- But I remember them.
- 2026
- 01:53:06,697 --> 01:53:08,782
- I don't regret those times.
- 2027
- 01:53:08,949 --> 01:53:10,326
- I am alone, though.
- 2028
- 01:53:11,827 --> 01:53:13,412
- And you are a voyeur.
- 2029
- 01:53:16,582 --> 01:53:18,334
- - I tried to find out
- what was going on,
- 2030
- 01:53:18,501 --> 01:53:21,253
- and then I heard the stories
- that he was in California,
- 2031
- 01:53:21,420 --> 01:53:25,049
- driving along the coast in
- a convertible Rolls-Royce,
- 2032
- 01:53:25,216 --> 01:53:29,470
- enjoying his life with his
- sunglasses and his hands out,
- 2033
- 01:53:30,930 --> 01:53:32,473
- enjoying the breeze.
- 2034
- 01:53:33,891 --> 01:53:35,392
- That's how I see him.
- 2035
- 01:54:41,375 --> 01:54:46,005
- - He passed away the night of
- the Academy Awards, actually.
- 2036
- 01:54:46,755 --> 01:54:49,008
- And his name was up on
- a television screen.
- 2037
- 01:55:00,853 --> 01:55:03,606
- We had a beautiful ceremony,
- 2038
- 01:55:03,772 --> 01:55:06,984
- and we played Fanfare
- for a Common Man.
- 2039
- 01:55:13,157 --> 01:55:14,450
- Halston was a common man.
- 2040
- 01:55:14,617 --> 01:55:16,160
- He came from nowhere.
- 2041
- 01:55:17,786 --> 01:55:21,582
- At the end, he said, "I
- just wanna fade away."
- 2042
- 01:55:21,749 --> 01:55:25,586
- But as somebody like him,
- he couldn't just fade away.
- 2043
- 01:55:29,965 --> 01:55:31,258
- - The death of a great
- American designer.
- 2044
- 01:55:31,425 --> 01:55:33,093
- His name was Halston.
- 2045
- 01:55:33,260 --> 01:55:35,471
- He was only 57 when
- he died in California.
- 2046
- 01:55:35,638 --> 01:55:37,681
- Yesterday he died as
- the result of AIDS.
- 2047
- 01:55:37,848 --> 01:55:39,016
- - With AIDS.
- - The cause,
- 2048
- 01:55:39,183 --> 01:55:40,601
- AIDS-related cancer.
- 2049
- 01:55:40,768 --> 01:55:44,605
- - We profoundly hope that
- it has a positive impact
- 2050
- 01:55:44,772 --> 01:55:47,232
- on the public in becoming
- increasingly aware
- 2051
- 01:55:47,399 --> 01:55:50,319
- of this terrible problem,
- and doing something about it.
- 2052
- 01:55:57,951 --> 01:55:59,662
- - Five months later,
- 2053
- 01:55:59,828 --> 01:56:04,041
- Halston Enterprises closed its
- Olympic Tower headquarters.
- 2054
- 01:56:09,880 --> 01:56:11,715
- Today, fashion is fast.
- 2055
- 01:56:13,926 --> 01:56:18,555
- And high up above the streets,
- in his beloved Olympic Tower,
- 2056
- 01:56:21,266 --> 01:56:23,227
- a private investment firm.
- 2057
- 01:56:25,562 --> 01:56:27,898
- It's morning again in America.
- 2058
- 01:56:30,317 --> 01:56:33,070
- - Does it look
- pretty much the same?
- 2059
- 01:56:35,197 --> 01:56:37,074
- - Oh, sure it's fun
- and it's not fun,
- 2060
- 01:56:37,241 --> 01:56:40,494
- and it's upbeat and downbeat
- and everything else, you know.
- 2061
- 01:56:40,661 --> 01:56:44,540
- But as my mother says, it's
- the price you have to pay.
- 2062
- 01:56:45,874 --> 01:56:46,583
- Thank you.
- 2063
- 01:56:48,419 --> 01:56:49,253
- Okay?
- 2064
- 01:56:49,420 --> 01:56:50,254
- It's a wrap.
- 2065
- 01:57:06,353 --> 01:57:11,108
- ♪ I am for a life
- around the corner ♪
- 2066
- 01:57:11,525 --> 01:57:15,946
- ♪ That takes you by surprise ♪
- 2067
- 01:57:16,113 --> 01:57:20,492
- ♪ That comes leaves
- all you need ♪
- 2068
- 01:57:20,659 --> 01:57:22,870
- ♪ And more besides ♪
- 2069
- 01:57:23,036 --> 01:57:27,708
- ♪ I am for a life
- and time by numbers ♪
- 2070
- 01:57:28,417 --> 01:57:32,796
- ♪ Blast in fast and low ♪
- 2071
- 01:57:32,963 --> 01:57:37,050
- ♪ Add 'em up,
- account for luck ♪
- 2072
- 01:57:37,217 --> 01:57:39,636
- ♪ You never know ♪
- 2073
- 01:57:39,803 --> 01:57:44,767
- ♪ I am into friendship
- and plain sailing ♪
- 2074
- 01:57:44,933 --> 01:57:49,146
- ♪ Through frenzied
- ports o'call ♪
- 2075
- 01:57:49,313 --> 01:57:53,525
- ♪ O shake the hand
- to beat the band ♪
- 2076
- 01:57:53,692 --> 01:57:56,195
- ♪ With love is all ♪
- 2077
- 01:57:56,361 --> 01:58:00,991
- ♪ Or nothing to the man
- who wants tomorrow ♪
- 2078
- 01:58:01,617 --> 01:58:05,871
- ♪ There's one in every town ♪
- 2079
- 01:58:06,038 --> 01:58:10,417
- ♪ A crazy guy,
- he'd rather die ♪
- 2080
- 01:58:10,584 --> 01:58:13,170
- ♪ Than be tied down ♪
- 2081
- 01:58:13,337 --> 01:58:18,091
- ♪ I am for the man who
- drives the hammer ♪
- 2082
- 01:58:18,258 --> 01:58:22,638
- ♪ To rock you till the grave ♪
- 2083
- 01:58:22,805 --> 01:58:29,394
- ♪ His power drill shocks
- a million miles away ♪
- 2084
- 01:58:29,978 --> 01:58:34,858
- ♪ I am for the
- revolution's coming ♪
- 2085
- 01:58:35,025 --> 01:58:39,238
- ♪ I don't know
- where she's been ♪
- 2086
- 01:58:39,404 --> 01:58:41,698
- ♪ For those who dare... ♪
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