Roy Halston Frowick’s Discotheque Style

July 20th, 2009 by kel15

Roy Halston Frowick is America’s first fashion superstar and the most popular fashion designer of the 1970’s. One of his licensing agreement was with JC Penny and Halston was a master of detail; with cut and simple, spare and polished designs, a phenomenally successful fragrance line and the fabric known as “Ultra suede”. His perfume was sold in a bottle designed by Elsa Peretti and was the second biggest selling perfume of all time. Sadly, despite his achievements, his increasing drug use and failure to meet deadlines, in October 1984, he was fired from his own company and lost the right to design and sell clothes under his own name. And in 1990, Halston died from complications of AIDS in San Francisco, California.

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