Quotes from Steven Gaines

You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

I'm surprised how easily Don Imus came back. He was off the air for a little while after the 'nappy-headed' comment in 2007, and then he's back as strong as ever.

There are some things that other people just don't want to forgive you for. For instance, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi.

It's just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with 'mature gardens' of full-grown trees.

The girl behind the counter was incredulous at the sight of Halston in a tuxedo and Elizabeth Taylor in nightgown and mink coat in a White Castle at five in the morning. "Pardon me," the girl asked, "are you really Elizabeth Taylor?" Taylor said, "Yes, I'm fucking Elizabeth Taylor. Now where's my ketchup?

Homosexuals make the best friends," Bianca said, "because they care about you as a woman and they are not jealous. They love you but don't try to screw up your head.

Halston had a sensible, straightforward philosophy of "find out what's wrong and let's fix it," according to Liza.

establish workrooms in Paris; present a collection twice a year which is then duplicated for private customers; create seventy-five or more garments a year; employ a minimum of three models; and produce handmade, one-of-a-kind confections.

Yet this tough, pragmatic man with his finely tuned sense of justice and honor also had a huge, vulnerable heart and respect for the creative spirit that verged on the awestruck.

Halston listened to her thoughtfully, smoking a cigarette, and when Liza was finished with her lament, he said softly, "Gee, I think about my life, and I've just had a wonderful life. Always. I was always a success. I've always had the best workers. I've always had the nicest friends. I always had everything I wanted.' He smiled his perfect smile at her. 'I've had a great life,' he said.

It seemed that no customer was immune to his appeal. 'I have no ideal woman,' he said emphatically. 'I have a public which is north, south, east, and west.' Fashion had finally found the universal American designer.

Norton Simon had lots of money and believed that the $2 million investment to launch a Halston perfume was more than worth the gamble. 'Of course, it wasn't my two million,' Halston said. 'It was just my name, which is worth a hell of a lot more than two million.

On that occasion Halston told the Times that 'fashion is never made by designers. Fashion is made by fashionable people. If Mrs. William Paley wears my hat, it becomes fashion. If it hangs in the stockroom, it's nothing.

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These women took one look at these hats and put them right on their newly sprayed and lacquered heads. They didn't care what happened to their hairdos.

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Women's Wear "the terror tabloid of the fashion world.

Southampton is for sporting rich; Bridgehampton is for nearly rich; East Hampton is for the very rich.

Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.