Halston S/S 09 New York

[educo]

Note to all involved with this collection:

Draped clothes do not show well sitting down. I get that they were going for a loungey atmosphere, but do the clothes some justice.

From what I can tell, which isn't enough, this looks more contemporary than last season's outing. But it's still lacking that seductive element. Outside of the fact that they're attractive clothes, there's no real draw to them, nothing that makes you want to live the life that these clothes live.

(The smartest thing for the Halston people to have done would've been to beg Tom Ford to be creative director from the very beginning. No other contemporary designer has been so successful at resurrecting the Halston lifestyle)

Man, you have been reading my mind lately about these collections!!

Goes to show that with some houses can only be successful with the original designer, and this is definitely one of them.

 

[Zazie]

I LOVE this...it's so Halston in the best cliched way possible. I'm dying to wear one of these with black eyeliner, Vaseline and a huge upper-arm bangle to lounge around a cocktail party at a Richard Lautner villa to "La Femme D'argent" by Air. No, I don't want a "modernized" Donna-Karan-type Halston, what's the point - I want a wicked sexy slinky Halston like back in those days.

As to the colours, but of course the dresses are all mostly sleek curvy columns and the colours or very bold graphical patterns make them stand out pure and strong, the centre of every party.

And Tom Ford sucks. All business, no dreams.

 

[disco54]

^^^^ thats why its sells well...woman feel buying halston makes them sophisticated and sexy like celebs in the 70s , when celebrities were naturally glamourous and not US weekly whores...

 

[Zazie]

^^^^ thats why its sells well...woman feel buying halston makes them sophisticated and sexy like celebs in the 70s , when celebrities were naturally glamourous and not US weekly whores...

A HUGE AMEN to that!!

Couldn't have put it any better!!

"Glamour"'s the word I've been searching for, also the modernity of Halston and Calvin Klein...it's so American but so few NY designers want to own it.

 

[chanels]

It's not a very cohesive collection... Very random, especially the colors.

 

[cavanaugh]

Tom Ford would be a godsend for this brand....

agreed, good call.

this has a lot of potential that this collection just isn't meeting

 

[Blanche DuBois]

I think its lovely, it's the kind of collection that really suits my summery feeling...I would wear most of it
Michaela looks amazing doesnt she?

for me it's a great collection...its for sure that its gonna be saleable

 

[disco54]

made mistakes in grammar

thats why its sells well...woman feel like buying halston because it makes them feel sophisticated and sexy like celebs in the 1970s , when celebrities were naturally glamourous and not US weekly whores purposely dressing up so they can be photographed by the pap and act like their privacy is being violated...



Another thing , this collection is not cohesive because of the lack of a head designer. I saw the pieces on style.com , the dresses are quite nice , the red kaftan and this cryselean blue dress . What I like about halston , is you get comfort and high glamour , the clothes look soo damn comfy , you can sleep in them.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

Can't help being just a little disappointed.
Probably because after Klein and Karan, I was looking forward to Halston the most.
I thought last season was very beautiful.

But this season just seems like a continuation of winter.
I suppose they're just looking in the archives and doing variations of what's there. There doesn't seem to be much inspiration.
Really quite disappointed at how similar the two collections are.

 

[Lacroix]

Clean. I really, really love a few but there are also some that do nothing for me

 

[liberty33r1b]

it's all classics, very wearable and beautiful. nothing wrong with that! i really like this.

 

[disco54]

can somebody post the style.com photos my computer is slow.............. thanx

 

[Miss Dalloway]

Its lovely and i like several pieces.

 

[rangerrick14]

I don't feel the joy.......what I mean by that is, the Halston of the 70's had a "joy of living", a "joy of sex" it was decadence without repurcussions.This Halston feels stale and severe. How they made bright prints and colors severe, I don't know? But they did.
Tom Ford would be a great idea as creative director; his slinky ,seductive aesthetic and buisness sense helped Gucci and YSL and hopefully will help Halston.

 

[Meg]

A couple of the pieces are nice but it's kind of mediocre. If I wanted this sort of thing, I'd go to Bottega and get infinitely better looking and more chic pieces, and probably at a better price tag. The sitting down presentation was just bizarre. The clothes looked like crap and the lighting was terrible. It made them look waxy. And while the clothes hang on the models well while they walk, sitting down it just too much like Rachel Zoe. There was no life/movement/shape in the clothing. Just flat.

^
Just saw your post above and I agree entirely. I guess that's what I mean by flat. Halston had a sexiness, a voluptiousness about it, it could be worn by anyone from a size 0 to 16. It had a kind of decadence. This feels so hollow and like the clothes are hanging off the girls. Not Halston, and not sexy.

 

[Emilia]

Hq

 

[Emilia]

 

[Emilia]

PMM

 

[Salvatore]

(The smartest thing for the Halston people to have done would've been to beg Tom Ford to be creative director from the very beginning. No other contemporary designer has been so successful at resurrecting the Halston lifestyle)

I definitely agree Tom Ford would be perfect or any other designer that can possibly create a "lifestyle" around this brand as that's what Halston was quite about - the lifestyle. All I see here are just clothes and I cannot anything about this new Halston woman (except that maybe she goes to the market in chiffon/jersey gowns.......). It's not that bad of a collection though for any other designer that would be just starting.

 

[-Veda-]

Halston was so iconic and marked by his time I don’t think his silhouettes can ever become “timeless”. This collection looks very tacky, tired…cookie cutter translations in a puddle water palette are an insult to M. Halston’s legacy.

Heartily agree Tom Ford is the only person who could inject innovation and excitement into this hiccup of a revival.