Tie-dye caftan dress: The caftan dress with its free-floating silhouette and graphic tie-dye aesthetic found instant success in a market saturated with boxy, geometric designs. In an interview for Variety magazine, Jeriana San Juan, the series’ costume designer, said: “He [Halston] had this way of interpreting tie-dye that wasn’t your hippie style. He used batik and he used tie-dye to highlight a woman’s body and her bone structure.” 

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Ultrasuede shirt-dress: Halston’s first ultrasuede (lightweight polyester with a suede-like feel) design was a trench coat, and he would go on to design a shirt-dress—earlier called “model number 704” according to the Museum at FIT website. Vogue described it as “the uniform of the moment”, and the design continues to enjoy cult status.  Halston became synonymous with ultrasuede—so much so that a 2010 documentary about him was called Ultrasuede.  

Backless, halter-neckline dress: Another highlight of Halston’s fashion career coincided with the ’70s disco era, courtesy Studio 54.