The True Story Behind Halston s Perfume and That Jockstrap Scene
On 5/19/21 at 9:50 AM EDT
Netflix series
Halston features a number of pretty wild scenes, from a woman dying in the air vents of Studio 54 to Halston s (played by Ewan McGregor) phone getting so clogged up with cocaine that it stops working.
Perhaps the most audacious scene, however, comes when Halston is working on his first perfume with parfumier Adele (Vera Farmiga). She asks him to suggest some scents to her from his past and present to make his perfume, and he replies by bringing her a used jockstrap from his lover Victor Hugo (Gian Franco Rodriguez). In a deliberately provocative moment, she smells this by draping it over her face and inhaling deeply.
husband s inauguration and quite by accident. it was a rather windy day and she put her hand on the hat, and everybody cop ted and put a dent in it which was so funny. by the 70s, halston s clothes were revolutionizing the fashion scene, palling around with andy warhol and using his friend, models of color like elva chin. he made things so you didn t need the structure as much as you needed the woman. he really based most of his collection on most of us girls. reporter: halston eventually sold his name to j.c. penney making halston clothes, halston perfume, halston luggage and halston bedding, losing control of the empire he creatored whed