From Halston to Rodarte: Exploring Fashion’s Ongoing Love of Orchids Inline

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    Photo: Darleen Rubin / Condé Nast Archive
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    Halston in his orchid-filled Olympic Tower office, 1978.

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    Illustration: Eric, Vogue, November 15, 1939
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    Eric’s cover for Vogue’s Debutantes issue features Boivin’s diamond-and-sapphire orchid bracelet

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    Photo: Courtesy of Tiffany and Co. 198
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    Inspired by a vase found in a second-hand shop, Elsa Peretti designed this vase necklace for Giorgio di Sant’Angelo in 1969. She’d work closely with Halston, who introduced her to the top brass at Tiffany Co.

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    Photo: Pierre Schermann/ Condé Nast Archive
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    Halston and his orchids, 1973

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    Photo: John Bright/ Condé Nast Archive
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    Yves Saint Laurent and Alva Chinn at his Opium launch blowout, 1978