La Dolce Vita – Continued from page 13 However, our conversation was far too dicey to ever leave the table. Sorry to disappoint. Have you heard the news? Halston has been sold yet again. Since the avant-guard, chain-smoking designer perished in 1990, the internationally recognized label seems to have been up for grabs. Halston became the first American couturier to bring us designer ball gowns, ready-to-wear, house wares, accessories, luggage and even In Cocktail Polo News You Should Know: That someone you all know and love seems to make enemies wherever she goes … That the effects of bad plastic surgery can now be seen on several once-handsome men who needed nothing and now look burned … That a tall back-stabbing and lying friend to all now finds herself in dead end social status … That a woman who was so cruel to many nice people on the social scene now sits at a bar and drinks away the afternoon … That several once-large charity Cocktail Polo News you should balls shouldInhave stayed status quo rather thanknow: reinventing the wheel … That two ladies spend too much time on the telephone spewing untrue facts about a lot of very nice people … That a businessman with a sharp eye is skating on the thinnest ice and doesn’t realize it’s all about to crack wide open ... That a socialite who tries so hard to be accepted should just relax because everyone really does like you. Now you’re all caught up for the next 15 minutes.
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designer flight attendants and Girl Scouts long before any other designer ever thought of it. He made one big mistake, however. In 1982 he sold his name to Norton Simon, who subsequently sold it over and over again. By the time he died, Halston may have amassed millions, but he was prevented from using his own name on anything. How sad. Several big-time names have tried to resurrect the label. Designer Randolph Duke perhaps had the most success with the line and the worst temper. Later Sarah Jessica Parker and Harvey Weinstein took control of the label only to walk away due to creative differences. While other fashion labels have flourished after the designer’s death, most notably Chanel and Emilio Pucci, the majority have not. They include Bill Blass, Jacques Fath, Travilla, YSL, Dior and many others that continue to limp along or fail. The grand and elegant Carolina Herrera said it best when I interviewed her at Neiman Marcus several years ago: “When a designers dies, so should their label.” Would you walk into an art gallery and purchase a painting by John Doe for Picasso? You get the picture.
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