‘Halston : Did A Woman Really Die in the Studio 54 Vents?
The new Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix series is full of crazy moments, but did this one really happen?
Phil Owen | May 14, 2021 @ 11:42 AM
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(Some light spoilers ahead for the fourth episode of the Netflix series “Halston”)
The life of Roy Halston Frowick, better known simply as Halston, was not boring. That’s not a word you could accurately throw around about anybody who frequented Studio 54 during its brief reign of glory in New York in the late 1970s.
As we see in numerous scenes on “Halston,” that place was crazy. An absolute madhouse of debauchery. And certainly too chaotic to last.
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Halston’s epic fashion salvo during “The Battle of Versailles,” as depicted in “Halston,” the series.Credit.via Netflix
Published May 14, 2021Updated May 18, 2021
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Ewan McGregor, Krysta Rodriguez, Rebecca Dayan, David Pittu, Gian Franco Rodriguez, Bill Pullman, Sullivan Jones, Kelly Bishop, Rory Culkin
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Surprisingly,
Halston features none of the Murphy repertory players, but some of his other hallmarks are very much in place in this biographical drama: outsiders, power dynamics, queer leads, musical numbers. Though
Halston is undeniably a group effort, built around Ewan McGregor’s oft-canny performance, it’s still destined to be dubbed a “Ryan Murphy show,” with all the baggage that comes with that term. And yet, the docudrama somehow manages to skimp on that “Murphy-ness” it’s nowhere near as campy or heightened or as absurd as it ought to be, even if those qualities usually set Murphy’s shows up to go off the rails. When Bianca Jagger appears astride a horse in the middle of the dance floor, it’s in more of an obligatory “1970s’ greatest hits” compilation manner than a rococo moment. Th
Who was Roy Halston Frowick’s boyfriend Victor Hugo?
Hugo, born in 1942, was an artist and window dresser.
Initially from Venezuela, Hugo went on to make a career for himself in America.
He became one of Andy Warhol’s assistants at The Factory – his New York studio.
Hugo was heavily influenced by the American artist and is believed to have been the first window dresser to have introduced Pop art – the artistic movement Warhol was renowned for – into his designs.
The artist met Halston in 1972 and the two began an on-off relationship – lasting for around a decade – with Hugo living in the fashion designer’s home.
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