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Halston review: Netflix’s dour miniseries is fascinated with designer’s fall
Ryan Murphy s show swaggers and staggers but finds its stride on the biopic runway
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HALSTON (L to R) EWAN MCGREGOR as HALSTON and KRYSTA RODRIGUEZ as LIZA MINNELLI Photo: Patrick McMullan
Roy Halston Frowick translated the mystique of fashion into a feeling that women of the ’70s wanted to wrap themselves up in like velvet. Or, like ultrasuede, the fabulous fabric Halston designed and marketed into various iterations of frocks that sold like hotcakes. The designer’s rise to the top of American fashion, fueled both by his fame as the man who put Jackie Kennedy in the pillbox hat and the outrageous success of the ultrasuede dress, drives episode one of Netflix’s dour but still fascinating miniseries
The other issue was that Anderson regarded neither James nor Stan as sufficiently famous. “She’s never heard of the actors playing her or Tommy, and doesn’t care to know them. She and her family think the show is a cheap knockoff. The whole thing is a joke to them…Pamela has no intention of watching this God awful show, absolutely not. Never.”
Likewise up in arms are the Gucci family, who have expressed horror at Ridley Scott’s “horrible” and “ugly” House of Gucci. The film delves into traumatic chapter in the life of the fashion dynasty. It tells the story of the tragic marriage of Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) and Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) – Reggiani was convicted of her husband’s assassination in 1998 having hired a hitman to kill him.