Glamorous Halston: The Evening Collection. Part One. 1970s. A Single Owner Collection

Well, I have posted some really great pieces of Halston for day: a hooded cashmere sweater and skirt - so perfect for a chilly day like today in New York! An electric blue jersey dress that could take you from the office to cocktails, an ultrasuede coat with a silk bias cut ensemble underneath - so chic and minimalist and a few of Elsa Peretti's for Halston perennially cool belts and now finally, I am ready for a little Glamour!

It's time to party like its 1977 and your best friends are Bianca, Mick, Marissa, Andy, Liz and Liza.  

Let's get this party started!  

Let's start with Liza in black sequins and matte jersey.  How gorgeous is her outfit?!

Liza's sequin jacket looks a lot like this simple tank dress with its matching cardigan that we have.

Shiny black sequins are sewn onto silk chiffon.  So fabulous, you can wear it with the tank dress or like La Liza, wear the sequin jacket with matte jersey.  I am thinking a black jumpsuit would be amazing!

So it is about 15 degrees here in sunny New York and if you have an event tonight (the temperature is suppose to be 11 degrees!) and want to look glamorous and be nice and toasty then I would suggest wearing this beautiful yellow cashmere long gown and cardigan like Pat Cleveland back in the day.  It's a sweater and it's slinky...  

 The reason why Halston's cashmeres are so sexy is because they are cut close to the body.

We also have, one of my favorites, this super beautiful silk charmeuse wrap dress with an angled hem.

One of the most iconic and glamourous of Halston's looks for evening is the plunging halter neck gown.

We have a coral matte jersey plunging halter neck gown which you can wear with its matching jersey cardigan - or without.  Halston loved a very matching look and probably would have shown this gown with a coral strappy sandal.

 More to come... to be continued...

Shop our 1970s Halston collection here.

The Halston Uniform for Day. Part Two. 1970s. A Single Owner Collection.

Kate Moss, Carine Roitfeld, Lee Radziwell, Carolyn Besette Kennedy, the Duchess of Windsor all have or had a uniform.  Not a drab Mao-ist style uniform but a uniform in the sense that these super stylish women each knows what works for them,  they know who they are and they know exactly what to buy.  They get it right almost every time.  

I tend to be a little too all over the place.  Sometimes when I am shopping, I get confused, and think, oh this looked really great on so and so and bring it home and realize that it doesn't work for me.  So one of my New Year's resolutions is to be more true to moi and work on my uniform.

Women who wore Halston back in the day, always speak about a Halston uniform.  Halston's fashion designs did not wildly swing from season to season.  He worked on an idea.  One of ease, comfort, quality, simplicity, sexiness and glamour.  And there, voliá! you have the Halston uniform.  

In 1971, when Grace Mirabella was named editor of American Vogue after the fashion fantasy fueled years of Diana Vreeland, chose an all Halston wardrobe for her first trip to Paris to see the haute couture.  "If I wanted to be more dressed, I'd wear gold and charmeuse.  If I wanted to be less dressed, it would be matte jersey.  If I wanted bare, I would take off the jacket and the top would be bare down the back.  And if I wanted ornamentation, Halston would provide a perfect little drop of some accessory designed by Elsa Peretti."

This is part two in a five part series on an exceptional sale of  1970s Halston that we are having on 1st dibs.  So cue the Sister Sledge and get ready for your Halston moment.  

Halston electric blue jersey dress

1977 Halston dot print silk bias cut dress with kimono sleeves and self belt.

Halston bias cut print silk ensemble with self belt.

Halston black linen wrap dress.

Halston cashmere hooded sweater and skirt.

 All items are available to purchase on our 1st Dibs storefront by clicking here.