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May 22, 2021 · Elizabeth Taylor, Bianca Jagger and Liza Minnelli all championed his designs – but it was Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat that made Roy Halston Frowick famous
- On The Rise
- Conspicuous by Their Absence: Charles James
- Minnelli The Muse
- The Body in The Air Vent
- Conspicuous by Their Absence: Andy Warhol
- Victor Hugo
- Pat Ast
- Decline and Fall
- Conspicuous by Their Absence: Halston’s Family
The series depicts little Halston (then Roy Halston Frowick) making hats to comfort his beloved mother after her irascible husband, Halston’s father, physically abuses her in their Midwestern home. Halston was indeed from the Midwest—originally Iowa, then Indiana—and according to biographer Steven Gaines, he did make hats for both his mother and si...
The series references Halston speaking of his admiration for Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Halston is shown fearlessly cutting on the bias (cutting at a 45-degree angle so the fabric drapes itself on the body) and draping the fabric on the model rather than working from a pattern as Balenciaga did. Indeed, Gaines quotes a friend sayin...
The series suggests that Halston met his great friend and muse Liza Minnelli when he saw something in a vivacious but raw young performer at a supper club and went backstage to meet her afterward. Their actual meeting was more prosaic: Minelli recalls that she was shopping in Bloomingdale’s with her godmother, frequent Halston client and author of ...
As has been amply documented, the series’ depiction of Studio 54—the Glitterati Central disco where Halston and Liza, along with Halston’s lover Victor Hugo and Bianca Jagger spent most of their evenings in the late ’70s—is, if anything, restrained. Yes, there were people openly having sex in the balcony, and cocaine was as ubiquitous and widely av...
Although Warhol’s silkscreen paintings are glimpsed on the walls of both Halston’s and Minnelli’s residences and he is name-checked once or twice, the artist is largely absent from the story even though he was one of Halston’s closest friends (“Whenever there was a dinner or something at H.’s house, he would be there,” Minnelli recalled) and as muc...
One of these gay hustlers was the exuberant and charismatic Victor Hugo, who insinuated himself into the designer’s personal and professional life, becoming the boutique’s window dresser as well as Halston’s lover and hedonism facilitator, organizing gay orgies and procuring drugs. Hugo had his own (nonsexual) creative relationship with Warhol, ins...
Another former Warhol associate, larger-than-life actress Pat Ast, who had appeared opposite Joe D’Allesandro in Heat, turns up in Halstonas a saleswoman in the boutique and as part of the Halston entourage. Ast was in reality both these things, as well as one of the very first plus-size models when Halston put her on the catwalk. Halston pioneered...
The series shows Halston’s initial corporate backer, a relatively benign owner called Norton Simon, being swept up in 1980s acquisition mania and being bought by a more hard-nosed giant corporation called Esmark, a subsidiary of bra-and-girdle-maker International Playtex. The new owners take a dim view of Halston’s indifference to cost control, lac...
In the show, after Halston becomes increasingly ill with AIDS, he decides to sell his beloved Montauk beach house and New York townhouse, telling his closest consigliere, fashion illustrator Joe Eula, that he is moving to San Francisco because “you know why.” What is not made clear is that he moved to the Bay Area not only because it was a center o...
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Aug 6, 2019 · CNN — There is a scene in “Halston,” a new documentary about the enigmatic fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, in which his former assistant Tom Fallon recounts a story that still shocks –...
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May 14, 2021 · Bettmann // Getty Images. During Halston's heyday, he was adored by some of the biggest stars of the 20th century. He was close with people like Warhol, Jagger, Minnelli, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others. Minnelli, for instance, wore one of Halston's creations, a yellow dress, to the Academy Awards.
May 14, 2021 · In the new Netflix show 'Halston,' viewers learn about the Battle at Versailles, a famous fashion show which came with a lot of drama. Here's some info about it.
May 14, 2021 · Halston designed gowns with two things in mind: the fabric and the human body. Oftentimes his dresses were made of a single piece of chiffon or silk fabric, draped elegantly over the body.
May 12, 2021 · 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.
