Halston the series unfortunately doesn’t tell us anything new, but it does bring his decadent world of the 1970s and 1980s entertainingly back to life, with the production team perfectly recreating his impractically modern Manhattan apartment, his Olympic Tower office (complete with blood red carpets and mirrored walls) and, best of all, disco hotspot Studio 54, where the fame hungry Halston danced the night away with friends including Minnelli (a stunning Krysta Rodriguez) and jewellery designer Elsa Perretti (Rebecca Dayan). Drugs, horrendously bad business decisions and a tempestuous on/off relationship with a Venezuelan-born artist named Victor Hugo (who, as played by Gian Franco Rodriguez, comes across as one of the most unlikeable people on the planet) all led to Halston losing control of the one thing that mattered to him most – his name – in the years leading up to his death in 1990, at the age of 57.ĭescribed by Calvin Klein as ‘the greatest American designer who ever lived’, Halston was a fascinating man and his story has already been told in detail in the 2019 documentary Halston.
Of course, such a rise has to be followed by a fall – especially in a TV drama – and Halston’s was dramatic. When hats became less popular, he decided to open his own boutique of women’s wear on Madison Avenue in 1968, and his innovative, simple yet sophisticated designs – and use of luxurious fabrics like silk and chiffon that flowed beautifully – became icons of the 1970s, with high society ladies and celebrities like Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor, Anjelica Huston, Lauren Bacall and Bianca Jagger all photographed wearing his dresses. Aside from a few slightly cheesy flashbacks to his childhood, the series follows Halston’s life story in a surprisingly straightforward, almost pedestrian way, beginning as he became the toast of New York as a milliner (he designed the pillbox hat Jackie Kennedy wore to JFK’s inauguration in 1961) at the chic Fifth Avenue department store Bergdorf Goodman. Unfortunately, the series itself isn’t quite worthy of McGregor’s thundering performance.
But in this case – and I don’t want to sound like I’m worming out of this, because it is something I did think a lot about – I suppose ultimately I felt like it was just one part of who he was.” Certainly, the series attempts to capture all the elements of what made Roy Halston “Halston”, and McGregor is, like the man he portrays, a tour de force in every scene. McGregor’s casting as the openly gay designer isn’t without controversy, of course, and in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, he said: “…if it had been a story about Halston’s sexuality more, then maybe it’s right that gay actors should play that role. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater.
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