The story did not seem to really need five episodes to tell it. However, the latter part about his downward spiral into drugs, debts and HIV were all too familiar ground already. S1, Ep1 Becoming Halston 7.5 (792) Rate Looking to reinvent himself, Halston sets out to create a signature look, assembling a design team and finding inspiration in new friend Liza Minnelli. This limited series, created by Sharr White and directed by Daniel Minahan, was based on the biographical novel by Steven Gaines, entitled "Simply Halston." Those initial parts about Halston's personal relationships and signature creations were certainly interesting to watch. Downloads only available on ad-free plans. With his career in a nosedive and his personal life a mess, Halston receives an artistic lifeline from an old friend before embarking on a last journey. Gian Franco Rodriguez's annoying male prostitute Victor had bad news written all over his thick handlebar mustache from the very start. American fashion designer Halston skyrockets to fame before his life starts to spin out of control. Krysta Rodriguez's Liza Minnelli was a breath of fresh air whenever she was on screen. At 50 years of age now, McGregor did look a bit too old to play the young Halston. Those scenes where Halston creating that red gown for Liza or that blue gown from Schumacher's dyed material on Elsa, both on the fly, were very well-executed.Įwan McGregor looked like he was having a ball playing a prideful, sarcastic Halston with all his fabulous frivolities, like the orchids or the limousines, as well as his dangerous lifestyle of drugs and random lovers. The costume designs were, of course, meticulously rendered as would be expected. The immense pressure of this arrangement led Halston down the dark road of drugs and decadence, and toxic relationships with men like Victor Hugo (Gian Franco Rodriguez).Īs with previous Ryan Murphy period productions with Netflix like "Hollywood" and "Ratched," the glamorous production design of Halston's world from 1960s to the 1980s was definitely topnotch eye candy. This relationship will make Halston a household name, attaching his name not only to dresses, but also to perfume, luggage, and furniture. He then entered into an agreement with David Mahoney (Bill Pullman) of investment company Norton Simon to handle his business affairs. American fashion designer Halston skyrockets to fame before his life starts to spin. He even hired young Joel Schumacher (Rory Culkin) before he became a film director. After meeting and designing dresses for Liza Minnelli (Krysta Rodriguez), Halston went on to form his design team composed on Joe Eula (David Pittu) as his illustrator and Elsa Peretti (Rebecca Dayan) as his fit model.
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In a later episode when he’s designing a perfume, there’s a chance to explore his backstory, but again, we’re given only hints as to what shaped him.This 5-episode series recounted the rise of fashion designer Halston (Ewan McGregor)starting with Jackie Kennedy's iconic pillbox hat in the 1960s. Halston is a limited series of five episodes but it somehow feels both too short and too long the designer’s behaviour and ambition, the series hints, stems from his unhappy childhood, but we’re given very few flashbacks of this, and an offhand remark that his love of millinery came from “lifting his mother’s spirits”.
Prime Ryan Murphy material, then.īut despite Murphy’s usual attention to period detail with eye-candy locations and production design, the writing (by playwright Sharr White, and based on Steven Gaines’s biography Simply Halston,) falls flat, skimming that fabulous surface, leaving you wanting. He also indulged a very 1970s/’80s cocaine habit, hosted gay orgies in his uber-chic Manhattan townhouse – and was never without a withering, bitchy put-down.
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He hung out with movie stars, rock stars and Andy Warhol, one of his closest friends and muses was Liza Minnelli (played by Krysta Rodriguez) and he was a regular at Studio 54. Halston, played by Ewan McGregor (an unusual choice, although he hams it up fabulously for the most part) was for a time one of America’s most influential designers. Fri 05.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 00.08 EDT It is appropriate for a story set mostly amid the glitz and excess of the Studio 54 celebrity circle that it is immaculately. Ewan McGregor as Halston and Krysta Rodriguez as Liza Minnelli.
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