- 2008-05-02
- Filed under Exhibitions
Get up on the dance floor and boogie til you just can’t boogie no more. No designer symbolizes the 70’s like Halston. Disco dresses, halter tops, beads, and sequins. Lots of Halston red. Niloo Imami-Paydar (IMA Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts) has put together quite a show of pieces from the early 70’s to the early 80’s for Simply Halston. Now this ain’t gonna be no high-brow fashion critique. I was asked for my opinion, and sister, that’s what yer gonna get. These days my idea of fashion is matching my favorite chicken with my favorite vintage shantung silk jacket. (Thanks to Brad Bell for the feathers and silk shot.)
But Halston, well he had a bit more going on. Bear in mind that like many of us he was a product of the Midwest – born in Iowa and raised in Evansville, Indiana. That’s in southern Indiana for those of you who think the state ends in Bloomington or Brown County. If you remember from my bio I was born and raised in southern Indiana so I have a certain extra amount of pride when one of our own does well in the big world. Read the rest of this entry »
