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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
Ewan McGregor: Dahling, Heâs Halston!
For a new Netflix series, the actor dropped his lightsaber and picked up the cigarettes and scissors.
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May 7, 2021Updated 9:38 a.m. ET
When Ewan McGregor was but a wee lad in a sleepy town in Scotland in the â70s, some 3,200 miles away in a Manhattan townhouse on East 63rd Street, Roy Halston Frowick was living on a diet of baked potatoes with beluga caviar, chilled Stolichnaya, rent boys and mounds of cocaine piled in Elsa Peretti silver ashtrays. (With silver straws to match.)
âIâd never heard of him,â said a bearded Mr. McGregor, Zooming from his L.A. home. âI didnât know Halston at all.â