Halston Boss on Iconic Fashion Designer as First Influencer and Creating a Redemption Story
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To writer, producer and director Daniel Minahan, fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, was the “first influencer.”
“He’s somebody who really succeeded on marketing and branding himself,” Minahan says, adding that his mark is still left on “our everyday lives and culture” today.
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The subject of Minahan’s five-episode limited series, aptly titled “Halston” and bowing May 14 on Netflix, first became known as a hat designer, eventually working for Bergdorf Goodman and designing the pillbox hat Jacqueline Kennedy wore when her husband John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president. But later in that decade he expanded into women’s clothing in general, becoming known for luxurious looks before expanding again the following decade into uniforms and fragrances. In the 1980s he created a
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He was the most celebrated US designer of his era, with celebrity pals including Liza Minelli and Liz Taylor and a hotline to first lady Jackie Kennedy.
But Halston’s glittering fashion career ended in tragedy after his extravagant spending and cocaine addiction saw him lose his business in the years before he died of Aids, in 1990.
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Halston, pictured with Liza Minelli, was an iconic figure in the 1970sCredit: Getty
The rise and fall of the flamboyant designer is now the subject of the new Netflix drama, Halston, with Ewan McGregor in the lead role, which drops on Wednesday 14th May.
Netflix has released the first full-length trailer for Ryan Murphy s much-anticipated series about iconic designer Halston.
Ewan McGregor looks suave as he transforms into the 70s fashion icon in the clip - soundtracked by Depeche Mode s Enjoy the Silence - that teases Halton s early works alongside the designer s drugs and controversy-fuelled demise.
At the beginning of the trailer, 50-year-old Ewan s Halston - whose real name was Roy Halston Frowick - says: I ve been an outsider my whole life until one day I just stopped giving a flying f k.
Exciting: Netflix has released the first full-length trailer for Ryan Murphy s much-anticipated series about iconic designer Halston