Frankly, it has more style than substance, which makes it a fantastic show to watch on mute.
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A visual feast, the series is littered with sumptuous imagery, decadent outfits, and the works. Based on the life of American designer Halston, the miniseries stars Ewan McGregor as the titular fashion icon. Rather than a cautionary tale of ambition and excess, here’s hoping that Halston pays dues to the mastery and the daring of one of fashion’s greatest visionaries.Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix offering is as typical a Murphy project as it gets.
In just over two decades, he had succeeded in changing the way women felt in clothes and demonstrated the immensely positive influence that a designer can have on our everyday lives. He died of AIDS-related complications in 1990, in California, leaving behind a luminous legacy. “He was one of the most loving, kindest friends I’ve ever had,” Schumacher added. If you managed to survive the 1960s, you realised one day you were just a drug addict and not a peace-loving soul anymore.” Schumacher’s first film credit as costume designer was, by the way, the 1972 adaptation of Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays, for which Halston generously provided exquisite clothing samples. This is how costume designer-turned-director Joel Schumacher ( St Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys), played in the show by Rory Culkin, remembered it. Halston and models attend Diana Vreeland's Costume Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 8 December 1981. “Everybody who copied it put a dent in it,” Halston shrugged. Viewers honed in on the hat’s seemingly intentional dent, an imprint the first lady had made by accident while securing the headpiece during the blustery inauguration ceremony. But, there’s also something serendipitously Halston about why the designer became a worldwide viral sensation in a pre-internet age. The strikingly ‘clean’ look was the tipping point that ushered modernity into the mainstream. As the world watched John F Kennedy take his 1961 presidential oath, his wife Jackie would likewise be anointed global cultural icon status-Halston’s pillbox design syncing with the duck-egg blue coat (by courtier Oleg Cassini). Halston’s talents- originally as a milliner-and his impeccable taste made him a lightning rod for Bergdorf Goodman’s high-society clientele, one of whom would prove particularly influential. The midwestern designer was already a household name by that point. It was Halston who hosted the infamously decadent white-themed Studio 54 party in honour of Jagger, the one where Minnelli and Jagger were snapped releasing white doves. Among them, Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Anjelica Huston, Cher and model Pat Cleveland. Soon enough, she was joining him at “101”-his 101 East 63rd Street home, which played clubhouse to the city’s creative elite- and Studio 54. “We got along instantly, and he became my fashion mate,” Minnelli recalls of that magnetic first encounter. In real life, Minnelli’s godmother, original multi-hyphenate Kay Thompson, introduced the star to the designer, setting up an appointment at his studio. “Ewan went through intense training to figure out how the draping process works, and it resulted in the best dress that I’ve ever seen on my body-and it just came out of a single bolt of fabric and a couple pins.” “Halston and Liza meet each other, and he just starts draping fabric on her body,” Rodriguez told Vogue, as she toasted the show’s virtual premiere from her New York home this week. If you haven’t already watched the throbbing trailer, here it is in all of its bedazzling, F-bomb-dropping glory. Ewan McGregor plays the title role, flanked by ‘Halstonettes’ Krysta Rodriguez (as Liza Minnelli) and Rebecca Dayan (Elsa Peretti). Halston-a five-part biopic from Ryan Murphy-lands on May 14, spilling the larger-than-life story of Roy Halston Frowick (known mononymously as ‘Halston’, the man who changed American fashion forever) onto our small screens. Viewers who have lamented the lack of a fabulously chic, binge-worthy new series in the wake of 2020’s The Queen's Gambit have a box-fresh hit to look forward to this spring.
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