Halston

Roy Halston Frowick ( born April 23, 1932 in Des Moines, Iowa; † 26 March 1990 in San Francisco, California), known as Halston, was an American fashion designer. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular garments in the mid-1970s discotheques.

Life

Frowick was born in April 1932 in Des Moines, Iowa. After leaving school at Bosse High School in Evansville, Indiana, which he finished in 1950, studied at the University of Indiana Frowick. When his family moved to Chicago, he broke off his studies and began an evening course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. and worked as a window dresser in Chicago. First major gained fame Frowick by an article in the newspaper Chicago Daily News, which reported on Frowicks hat creations. Opened in 1957 Frowick his first fashion sales shop, the Boulevard Salon on North Michigan Avenue. At this time he took his middle name Halston as a professional trademark.

The end of 1957 Frowick went to New York City where he worked for the milliner Lilly roof. A year later he got a job as a milliner in the fashion store Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. National gained fame Frowick then by his Hutkreation the pillbox hat that Jacqueline Kennedy wore in 1961 at the inauguration of her husband. With its design of women's fashion, he was named by the U.S. magazine Newsweek for Premier Fashion Designers of America. His fashion designs that corresponded to the international style of the Jet Set that time were, among other things worn in the 1960s and 1970s by Bianca Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Anjelica Huston, Lauren Bacall, Babe Paley, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Frowick lived openly homosexual in New York City. 1990 Frowick died at the age of 57 years from the effects of AIDS in San Francisco, California.