i hae a great deal of admiration for halston~my ery first mannquin used to belong to him. i also draw a great deal of inspiration from andre courreges,jaques fath,charles james and balenciaga in term of historial designers. in terms of more modern master i loe calin klein...most of his liscences and stuff tend to be oer commercialized mass market drek but his actual couture eeningear line is always hot and i respect how he started up~he was originally going to buy into a supermarket and instead at the last minute put a ten thousand dollar inestment into his first collection...the man makes aout 25 milion dollars a year.
i was trained by scaasi in the late 80's and early 90's~anyone who's interested should do a search on the name...most of the museum pieces you'll find within that time frame were made by me~