Halston and I

Hi all! Just wanted to take a moment to have a little fashion chat, this being a holiday weekend and season.  First of  all,  I want to discuss a group of seven women that Truman Capote dubbed "The Swans", these were women of extraordinary chic, who not only were muses of some the greatest designers, but whose personal style had immense impact on the fashion world.  The Swans included the following: Babe Paley, Slim Keith, Gloria Guinness, C.Z. Guest, Marella Agnelli, Lee Radziwill and Pamela Harriman. Two of my favorites are Babe Paley and Slim Keith.  Barbara Cushing -Mortimer-Paley was one of the Cushing sisters from Boston who were renowned for their beauty and all were groomed by their  ambitious mother to marry into money and titles.  'Babe' was married and divorced from her first husband who made his fortune in oil and later married the founder of CBS,  William Paley.   She was the perfect 'trophy wife', Paley a Jew, needed an...

Hello all! Well it's been much too long since I posted here, I don't know where the times files off too!  A lot has been going on, first of all the documentary "Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston", was released and premiered at the Tribeca theater in NYC!  I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD since I didn't get a chance to see it there.  You can see more about it at You Tube of course! I fell out of my sewing due to so much going on in my work situation and personal life, but I'm glad to say that I'm back on track and creating again!  Part of my renewed excitement is the recent discovery of Google.sites which gives you the ability to create your own website.  I needed something more than a blog and I've finally found it!  I'm going to start creating the page soon after I have the necessary images to post there and it will be focused on my designs and  the steps of construction.  I also will have the prices of the items and the location where ...