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Roy Halston Frowick was born on April 23, 1932 in Des Moines, Iowa, he was the second son of a Norwegian-American accountant. Roy developed an interest in sewing from his mother. As a n child, he began creating hats and altering clothes for his mother and sister. Roy graduated Bosse High School in Evansville, Indiana.high school in 1950 then attended Indiana University for one semester. In 1952 the family moved to Chicago where Roy enrolled in a night course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and worked as a window dresser.

Frowick's first big break came when the Chicago Daily News ran a brief story on his fashionable hats. In 1957 he opened his first shop, the Boulevard Salon, on North Michigan Avenue. It was at this point that he began to use his middle name as his professional moniker.

Halston moved to New York City in late 1957, first working for milliner Lilly Daché. Within a year he had been named co-designer at Daché, became acquainted with several fashion editors and publishers, and left Daché's studio to become head milliner for department store Bergdorf Goodman.

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