About
One of the most important fashion designers in American history and the creator of the Halston fashion brand.
Before Fame
He developed an interest in sewing from his mother and worked as a window dresser at the age of eighteen.
Trivia
He designed the pillbox hat that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wore for her husband's presidential inauguration in 1961.
Family Life
He died on March 26th after a lengthy battle with Kaposi's sarcoma, an AIDS-related cancer.
Associated With
Elizabeth Taylor was one of his biggest fans.
