On a chilly morning in February, just two years after the Nazis had been driven out of Paris, the creme de la creme of the fashion world crowded into a room in an elegant hotel particulier not far from the Champs Elysees. The atmosphere was electric. A shy, rather awkward, middle-aged fashion [...]

After Roy Halston Frowicker died in San Francisco in 1990, the obituaries where cautious, muted, a little salty. Maybe it was because he’d lost his business, maybe it was because of the louche lifestyle, or maybe it was just because of the cruelty of fashion: by 1990, Halston was just so [...]