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- INSI HALSTON’S DTCTIVE REAL-LIFE RELATNSHIP WH VICTOR HUGO“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” ANDRé LEON TALLEY RECENTLY SAID OF HUGO, WHOSE RELATNSHIP WH THE SIGNER IS CENTRAL TO NETFLIX’S HALSTON. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 14, 2021FROM RON GALELLA COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVESOME BLAME SIGNER HALSTON’S EPIC FALL—OM A SUPERSTAR EMPIRE BUILR TO A MAN FIRED OM HIS OWN BRAND—ON DGS, STUD 54 EXCS, AND BAD BS CISNS. OTHERS BLAME VICTOR HUGO, THE VENEZUELAN SEX WORKER HALSTON MET 1972, DATED FOR OVER A , AND FOLLOWED DOWN A PATH OF RECKLS STCTN.HALSTON, THE SUBJECT OF RYAN MURPHY’S EPONYMO NEW LIMED SERI STARRG EWAN MCGREGOR THE TLE ROLE, HAD BOYIENDS BEFORE HUGO. THE MOST NOTABLE OF THEM WAS ED AT (PLAYED ONSCREEN BY SULLIVAN JON), A HANDSOME MENSWEAR BUYER MCGREGOR’S HALSTON PICKS UP WH THE FIRST FIVE MUT OF THE SERI A MEET-CUTE RIPPED ALMOST DIRECTLY OM REAL LIFE. BUT WHEN THAT RELATNSHIP FIZZLED, ACRDG TO SIMPLY HALSTON—THE STEVEN GA BGRAPHY ON WHICH NETFLIX’S SERI IS BASED—THE SIGNER TOOK TO LLG RTS. AS GA WR:HE WOULD PERHAPS ORR THEM BOTH A STEAK AND A BAKED POTATO LIVERED UP, THEN TAKE THEM TO BED AND SHOW THEM THE DOOR. JOE EULA, THE FASHN ILLTRATOR AND ONE OF HALSTON’S CLOST NFIDANTS, TOOK TO LLG THIS PRACTICE “DIAL-A-STEAK, DIAL-A-DICK,” WHICH HALSTON THOUGHT WAS HYSTERILLY FUNNY. ONE NIGHT 1972, THE YOUNG MAN WHO SHOWED UP AT HALSTON’S APARTMENT OM THE LL-BOY SERVICE CHANGED HIS LIFE.THE 24-YEAR-OLD TOLD HALSTON THAT HIS NAME WAS VICTOR HUGO—A PUN ON HIS ANATOMY, RATHER THAN AN HOMAGE TO THE FRENCH WRER AND POET RPONSIBLE FOR L MISéRABL. (“BELIEVE ME, HE WASN’T READG FRENCH LERATURE,” SNIPED FORMER VOGUE EDOR ANDRé LEON TALLEY A RECENT TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK TIM.)“IT WAS PURE LT. I THK HALSTON HAD A LIFE THAT WAS BARREN OF ROMANCE AND TENRNS,” GA TOLD VANY FAIR. HALSTON RIVED WARMTH OM HIS IENDSHIPS WH WOMEN LIKE LIZA MNELLI AND ELSA PERETTI; HIS ATTRACTN TO HUGO, GA THEORIZED TO LOGO, WAS MORE PLITED. “HALSTON LIKED BEG HUIATED AND HAVG THE SHOCK VALUE OF HAVG VICTOR AROUND,” HE SAID. “IT WAS A WHOLE OTHER SI TO HALSTON…. HALSTON LIKED TO BE ON THE SHOCKG END OF THGS. VICTOR WOULD SHOW UP AT STUD 54 WEARG A HOSE OVER HIS DICK. AND HE PISSED AND ME ON NVAS FOR ANDY WARHOL…. VICTOR ALSO END UP BEG ILL AND HAD NO RPECT FOR ANYTHG. HE THOUGHT HE WAS UNTOUCHABLE.”THOUGH HALSTON ULD BE LD, CUTTG, AND IMPER LATER HIS REER, HUGO—A BRASH, ENTLED ER AND WARHOL ENTOURAGE FIGURE—PROVED TO BE HALSTON’S KRYPTONE. “HE ULDN’T GET RID OF HIM,” GA TOLD V.F. “AND BELIEVE ME, VICTOR WOULDN’T LET HIM GO.”THE YEAR AFTER HALSTON MET HUGO, THE SIGNER WAS ARGUABLY AT THE TOP OF HIS REER—GROSSG NEARLY $30 LN RETAIL SAL, HAVG AMASSED THREE PRTIG COTY AWARDS (A FASHN WORLD PRECSOR TO THE CFDA AWARDS), AND BEG EMED “ONE OF THE GREATS” BY WOMEN’S WEAR. “HALSTON’S MONEY AND HUGO’S APPETE FOR EXCS MA THE PAIR AN ACCINT WAG TO HAPPEN,” MED TELEGRAPH A RETROSPECTIVE PUBLISHED 2001.HALSTON MOVED HUGO TO HIS HOME, PUT HIM ON THE PANY PAYROLL, AND EVENTUALLY LET HIS BOYIEND DRS THE WDOWS OF HIS BOUTIQUE—EVEN THOUGH HALSTON’S PREV BOYIEND, AT, WAS ALREADY DOG THAT JOB. THE NFLICT BETWEEN THEM ME TO A HEAD DURG THE CHRISTMAS SEASON OF 1973, WHEN HALSTON HAD HUGO RERATE A WDOW AT HAD SIGNED.“I WAS FIRED. CHRISTMAS EVE, THANK YOU—OUT THE DOOR, NO SEVERANCE, NOTHG,” AT TOLD GA, REVEALG THAT HE NEVER SAW THE SIGNER AGA.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHIN THE MID-’70S, HALSTON WAS UNR TREMENDO PRSURE, AS HIS EMPIRE EXPAND TO AGRANCE, LUGGAGE, MENSWEAR, LGERIE, AND HANDBAGS. HE WAS PRIMED FOR A RELEASE VALVE WHEN STUD 54 OPENED 1977—AND HALSTON JUMPED HEADFIRST TO THE NEW VENUE, CHANGG HIS OFFICE HOURS TO TER TO HIS PARTYG SCHLE AND SUPPORTG HUGO AS HE PLAYED HOST TO LAVISH AFTER-PARTI AT HALSTON’S UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOME. THE PARTI, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK POST, FEATURED “MAN-ON-MAN I LATE TO THE NIGHT [THAT ANDY] WARHOL ENJOYED PHOTOGRAPHG OM THE SIL.” AS PUBLICIST R. COURI HAY TOLD THE POST, “VICTOR HAD THE KEYS TO THE SAFE WH THE E.”“VICTOR WAS A STCTIVE FORCE,” SAID LONGTIME VANY FAIR SPECIAL RRPONNT BOB COLACELLO 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY. “ANDY DID VICTOR’S PORTRAS. HE DID TWO. ONE DAY HE SHOWS UP, AND THE PATG IS PLETELY VERED WH GRAFFI. [VICTOR] HAD PATED OVER THEM, THKG THAT THIS WAS TAKG ANDY’S ART TO ANOTHER LEVEL. AND ANDY WAS REALLY MAD. HE WAS LIKE, ‘DON’T THK I’M DOG NEW ON, VICTOR.’”WHEN HALSTON AND HUGO STOPPED SLEEPG TOGETHER, THE FASHN SIGNER TURNED TO OTHER RTS LIKE ROBERT ROGERS, “AN UNASSUMG BLACK MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT AND BUILD HIS LATE TWENTI WHO WAS ONE OF MANHATTAN’S MOST SUCCSFUL MALE PROSTUT,” WROTE GA.BUT HALSTON ULD NOT PLETELY CUT OFF HIS FORMER PARTNER—EVEN WHEN HUGO BEGAN STEALG OM HIM TO FUND HIS DG HAB. “HE STOLE SOME WARHOLS, BUT HE ALSO TOOK THE STERLG SILVER ELSA PERETTI NDLTICKS ON THE TABLE,” GA TOLD V.F., REVEALG THAT HALSTON NTUED TO BANKROLL HUGO’S LIFTYLE AFTER THEY BROKE UP—PAYG FOR HIS HOG AND WRG HIM CHECKS.“THE PERSON THAT HALSTON LOVED, MORE THAN HIS OWN LIFE, WAS VICTOR,” HALSTON’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT PECH VALLS TOLD GA. HALSTON’S IEND SASSY JOHNSON HAD ANOTHER TAKE ON THE RELATNSHIP.“MY THEORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT HALSTON ME OM AN ALHOLIC FAY, THAT HIS FATHER HAD A PROBLEM,” SAID JOHNSON 2019’S HALSTON. “AND THAT HALSTON RECREATED HIS FAY LIFE WH VICTOR AS THE DYSFUNCTNAL PERSON WHO IS NSTANTLY GOG TO KEEP EVERYTHG OFF BALANCE.”“I THK THAT’S PROBABLY A VERY GOOD ANALYSIS,” SAID GA, EXPLAG THAT HALSTON’S FATHER DID “PRETTY HORRIBLE THGS” TO THE FAY WHEN THEY WERE GROWG UP EVANSVILLE, INDIANA—CLUDG TO HALSTON’S SISTER AND BROTHER. “AND THEY WEREN’T GAY. I THK HALSTON HAD A VERY, VERY, VERY TOUGH TIME. I N’T IMAGE WHAT WAS LIKE FOR A GAY LTLE BOY TO BE THERE.”AFTER HALSTON WAS DIAGNOSED WH HIV 1988, HE MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS TO BE CLOSER TO HIS FAY—AND TO GET AWAY OM HUGO. HALSTON’S NIECE LLEY FROWICK TOLD PEOPLE THAT HALSTON’S FAL YEARS, “HE TOLERATED [HUGO], BUT HE WAS TROUBLE.”EVEN AFTER HALSTON’S 1990 ATH, HUGO NTUED TO TRY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE SIGNER, ACRDG TO GA. “VICTOR ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT GIVE ME AN TERVIEW UNLS I PAID HIM. ALL THE MONEY JT WENT UP HIS NOSE AND ON CRAZY SPENDG AND STCTIVE STUFF.”MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHREE S LATER, HALSTON’S IENDS STILL POT FGERS AT HUGO FOR HIS NEGATIVE FLUENCE ON THE SIGNER.“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” LONGTIME TALLEY TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”AND 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY, FILMMAKER FRéDéRIC TCHENG ASKED THE SIGNER’S ILLTRATOR AND NFIDANT JOE EULA FOR HIS ANALYSIS OF THE STCTIVE RELATNSHIP. EULA MCED NO WORDS.“WHY DID HALSTON PUT UP WH VICTOR?” TCHENG ASKS.“BEE HE WAS LOVE WH HIM,” EULA REPLI.“WHEN DID FALL APART?” TCHENG PRS.“THE DAY THEY MET,” EULA RPONDS, WHOUT HATN.IN MAKG NETFLIX’S HALSTON, THOUGH, THE SERI CREATORS WANTED TO MAKE HUGO (PLAYED BY GIAN FRAN RODRIGUEZ) A FULLY DIMENSNAL CHARACTER—AND DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DANIEL MAHAN WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO UNRSTAND HIM.“VICTOR WAS THE HARST CHARACTER TO WRE BEE HE WAS A DISPTOR,” MAHAN TOLD VANY FAIR, REVEALG THAT HE SPOKE TO FASHN SIGNER AND HALSTON PROTéGé NAEEM KHAN BEFORE FILMG. KHAN TOLD HIM THAT “SPE ALL OF HIS SANY AND THE DISPTN, VICTOR WAS A PERSON WHO ULD MAKE YOU SEE THGS A DIFFERENT WAY.”“BEE HALSTON AND HUGO MET THIS TRANSACTNAL WAY, WHEN VICTOR WAS A HTLER, AT LEAST OUR STORY, THE DYNAMIC IS THAT HALSTON IS NEVER SURE WHETHER HE N FULLY TST VICTOR,” EXPLAED MAHAN. “HE DON’T KNOW WHETHER VICTOR REALLY LOV HIM, OR WHETHER HE’S THERE FOR THE PRIVILEGE AND THE MONEY. AND I THK VICTOR IS NOT SURE WHETHER HALSTON REALLY LOV HIM BEE HE MET HIM AS A PROSTUTE. I THK ’S THIS REALLY LOAD SORT OF DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.”“I THK VICTOR GOT SO EP TO HIS ADDICTN AND SO OVERWHELMED AND DNK OFF THE ATTENTN THEY WERE GETTG THAT HE BEME A REALLY STCTIVE FORCE,” NTUED MAHAN. “I THK MAYBE VICTOR, THE BEGNG, WAS THE PERSON WHO ULD TELL HALSTON THE TTH ABOUT THGS. BUT THEN THAT BEME SOMETHG MORE MANIPULATIVE. THEIR RELATNSHIP IS A SAD STORY. BUT I THK WE KD OF TRY TO PTURE THE EXCEMENT OF AND THE DANGER OF , AND THEN FALLY THE DYSFUNCTN OF .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — AFTER JEN SHAH’S ARRT, HOW CAN WE KEEP ENJOYG REAL HOEWIV?— BARRY JENKS ON BRGG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD TO TV— HOW SWIMMG WH SHARKS TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT STT RUD— QUIL LEMONS’S 2021 VANY FAIR OSR PORTRAS— ANDREW MCCARTHY ON PRETTY PK AND THE BRAT PACK— THE 2021 OSR CEREMONY WAS A NOBLE, DOOMED EXPERIMENT— ELLT PAGE FALLY FEELS “ABLE TO JT EXIST”— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE UNSKABLE JENNIFER ANISTON— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.JULIE MILLER
- IN "HALSTON," INIC DIGNER GETS HIS DUE AS A GREAT GAY AMERIN HEROTHE NEW DOCUMENTARY IS HEAVY ON BOTH STYLE AND SUBSTANCE. {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEMAY 1, 2019/12:47 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3617PX;WIDTH:5502PX;}©ESTATE OF CHARL TRACYBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEMAY 1, 2019 / 12:47 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"IN \"HALSTON,\" INIC DIGNER GETS HIS DUE AS A GREAT GAY AMERIN HERO","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-05-01T16:47:11.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-05-01T16:47:11.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FASHN DOCUMENTARI, ALMOST AS A LE, ARE ALWAYS GREAT. FASHN PEOPLE ARE SUCH A UNIQUELY ECCENTRIC SUBSET OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE ART OUT OF SIMPLY LIVG THAT SHG A LIGHT ON THEIR EXISTENCE OFTEN RULTS A FEAST FOR THE SENS, OR AT THE VERY LEAST, A GUIBOOK TO YOUR OWN LIFE. THE CHARACTERS THAT POPULATE HALSTON, THE NEW DOC BY FRéDéRIC TCHENG ABOUT THE LEGENDARY SIGNER WHO PUT AMERIN FASHN ON THE MAP, ARE NO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE’S AN ARCHIVAL TERVIEW WH JEWELRY SIGNER AND EQUENT HALSTON LLABORATOR ELSA PERETTI, WHO, BETWEEN DRAGS OM AN EVER-PRENT CIGARETTE OR SIP OM AN ALWAYS-WH-REACH CKTAIL, HER TRAMARK GLASS PERCHED PRERLY BELOW THE BRIDGE OF HER NOSE, HAS NO PROBLEM SCRIBG HER LD REER AS SOMETHG SHE TRIED THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A BIG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THEN OF URSE, THERE’S THE POSTER CHILD FOR FABULO ECCENTRICY, LIZA MNELLI, HALSTON’S BT IEND AND MOST FAMO AND LOYAL CLIENT. HALSTON DRSED LIZA FOR THE BIGGT MOMENTS HER LIFE: FROM HER TELEVISN SPECIAL LIZA WH A Z, TO THE GOWN SHE WON HER OSR , TO HER NIGHTS WH HIM AND IENDS LIKE BIAN JAGGER, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, AND ANDY WARHOL AT STUD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN ASKED ABOUT HALSTON’S DG E, LOYAL TO THE END, LIZA DIPLOMATILLY REF TO MENT—CG THE HARSH TREATMENT HER MOTHER, HER FATHER, AND SHE HERSELF RECEIVED AT THE HANDS OF THE MEDIA.©BERRY BERENSON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON AND LIZA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR PERETTI, HOWEVER, THE DGS WERE JT A PART OF LIFE— WAS HOW ONE STAYED UP ALL NIGHT WORKG, AS HALSTON DID FOR YEARS AND YEARS, BUILDG HIS EMPIRE OM A LTLE LERY TUCKED AWAY BERGDORF GOODMAN’S TO A LICENSG BEHEMOTH SELLG EVERYTHG OM LOGNE TO LUGGAGE. BEG A TE AMERIN SIGNER, HAILG OM THE MIDWT, HALSTON WANTED TO MOCRATIZE FASHN, AND SO HE PROVID UNIFORMS FOR PEOPLE UALLY NOT GRANTED ENTRY TO THE WORLD OF HIGH FASHN: THE GIRL SUTS OF AMERI, BRANIFF INTERNATNAL AIRWAYS, THE 1976 OLYMPIC TEAM, AND THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON TOOK THIS IA EVEN FURTHER WH AN UNPRECENTED AL WH JC PENNEY TO CREATE WHAT IS NOW REFERRED TO AS A DIFFN LE. WHILE TODAY NEARLY EVERY HIGH-END FASHN HOE HAS A LS EXPENSIVE, MORE ACCSIBLE LE—OM PRADA’S MIU MIU TO VERSACE’S VERS—THE 1982 AL PROVED DISASTRO FOR HALSTON. HE EVENTUALLY LOST HIS PANY TWO YEARS LATER, AND WH THE E OF HIS NAME. HE DIED OM AIDS-RELATED PLITNS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEREAS HE HAD LED THE ’70S AND EARLY ’80S, BEG THE FIRST CELEBRY SIGNER, BY THE TIME HE DIED, HALSTON HAD FAD TO RELATIVE OBSCURY. “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HALSTON?” WAS THE POPULAR REA. THERE WAS NO BIG, SPLASHY EBACK. NO THIRD ACT. HE WAS THE MOST SUCCSFUL AMERIN FASHN SIGNER EVER AND THEN…HE WASN’T.HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGCIR 1975: STUD PORTRA OF AMERIN FASHN SIGNER HALSTON (ROY HALSTON FROWICK, 1932 - 1990) STG ONT OF MOLS WEARG HIS CLOTH, WHICH ARE MA OM ORDATED FABRICS. (PHOTO BY HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE EMPEROR, HALSTON (SEATED), AND HIS NEW CLOTH, CIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR A GENERATN OF VIEWERS WHO HAD NEVER HEARD OF HALSTON, OR THOSE WHO HAD WONRED AS TO HIS WHEREABOUTS, THCENG’S DOCUMENTARY DO A FE JOB OF PTURG WHAT MA HALSTON SUCH A GREAT SIGNER, BSMAN, AND SHOWMAN, ALL WHILE IMBUG THE FILM WH THE HEADY PLEASURE THAT FED HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROY HALSTON FROWICK WAS BORN ON APRIL 23, 1932 D MO, IOWA. HE MOVED TO EVANSVILLE, INDIANA WH HIS FAY AT AGE 10, BUT HE WAS NOT LONG FOR THE MIDWT AND AFTER ATTENDG THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTUTE OF CHIGO, HALSTON BEGAN WORKG AS A LER THE WDY CY. IN 1957, NOW GOG SOLELY BY HALSTON, HE MOVED TO NEW YORK AND QUICKLY TABLISHED HIMSELF THERE, LANDG THE LEAD LER ROLE AT BERGDORF’S 1960. THE FOLLOWG YEAR HE SIGNED JACKIE KENNEDY’S INIC PILLBOX HAT FOR THE GURATN OF HER HBAND JOHN F. KENNEDY.PL SCHUTZER/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/GETTY IMAGDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 20: JACQUELE KENNEDY (2L) AND HER HBAND, NEWLY ELECTED PRINT JOHN F. KENNEDY (R) ON THE DAY OF HIS INGURATN TO OFFICE. (PHOTO BY PL SCHUTZER/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JACKIE KENNEDY HALSTON'S PILLBOX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT LTLE HAT MA HALSTON A STAR, BUT HE REALIZED THAT HE WOULD FOREVER BE A HOMOSEXUAL-FOR-HIRE, AT THE BECK AND LL OF HIS WEALTHY CLIENTS, UNLS HE STCK OUT ON HIS OWN. IN 1968, HALSTON OPENED HIS OWN SALON ON 68TH AND MADISON, LNCHG HIS FIRST READY-TO-WEAR LLECTN THE FOLLOWG YEAR.©JEAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON THE '{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TCHENG TERVIEWED A NUMBER OF THE MOLS THAT HALSTON MA PART OF HIS HAREM, THE HALSTOT, CLUDG KAREN BJORNSON, PAT CLEVELAND, AND ALVA CHN. ALONG WH LIZA THEY ALL PRAISED HALSTON’S SIGNS FOR MAKG THEM FEEL BOTH STRONG AND SEXY. HALSTON’S LOVE OF THE WOMEN HE DRSED AND HIS GENI FOR SIGN REALLY SHE THROUGH TCHENG’S DOCUMENTARY.©DT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEFT TO RIGHT, PAT CLEVELAND, CHRIS ROYER, HALSTON, ALVA CHN, AND KAREN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON WANTED TO DRS WOMEN OF ALL SHAP AND LORS AND SURROUND HIMSELF WH MULTI-ETHNIC MOLS AND EMPLOYED ZAFTIG WARHOL FACTORY STAR PAT AST AS A MOL, ME, AND HOE MANAGER. SHE, TOO, FOUND HIS CLOTH EMPOWERG. THEY WERE SIMPLE, HIS CLOTH, YET EVEN TODAY THEY LOOK MORN; DIAPHANO AD BREATHTAKGLY BETIFUL. “HIS CLOTH DANCED WH YOU,” ACRDG TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON DRAMATILLY DRAPG A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THOSE CLOTH WERE ALSO GENI OF SIGN. HALSTON WOULD MAKE GOWNS OUT OF A SGLE PIECE OF FABRIC; THE PATTERNS HE CREATED WERE SOPHISTITED FEATS OF ENGEERG. IN 1972, HALSTON TRODUCED A SHIRTDRS MA OF ULTRASUE, A SYNTHETIC JAPANE FABRIC VENTED 1970, THAT BEME AN STANT SENSATN, LANDG ON THE VER OF NEWSWEEK. THEN 1973, AN UNPRECENTED MOVE, HALSTON SOLD HIS ENTIRE BS TO NORTON SIMON, INC., MAKG HIM THE FIRST SIGNER TO HAVE HIS TRAMARKS PURCHASED BY A RPORATE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH ULTRASUE, A GLZY CLIENTELE, AND THE NORTON SIMON ACQUISN, HALSTON BEME THE MOST POPULAR AND SUCCSFUL FASHN SIGNER AMERI—SO WAS ONLY NATURAL THAT HE SHOULD REPRENT THE UNTRY A UTURE BATTLE ROYALE FOR THE AG.AFP/GETTY IMAGUS SGER LIZA MNELLI PERFORMS ON NOVEMBER 29, 1973 DURG A NCERT TO BENEF THE RTORATN OF THE PALACE OF VERSAILL. (PHOTO BY - / AFP) (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ -/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIZA AND THE HALSTOT SLAYG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE BATTLE OF VERSAILL PUT AMERIN FASHN ON THE MAP. BEFORE , PARIS WAS THE ONLY STATN FOR SER UTURIERS AND AMERI WAS REGARD AS, AT BT, A BUNCH OF UPSTART HACKS. THAT ALL CHANGED 1973. CONCEIVED AS A FUNDRAISER FOR THE AILG PALACE OF VERSAILL, THE ONCE--A-LIFETIME EVEN PTED THE TOP FIVE FRENCH SIGNERS AGAST THE TOP FIVE AMERIN. HALSTON AND HIS TERIE OF MULTICULTURAL M STOLE THE SHOW, WH LIZA STEPPG AS ACH WHEN THE BELEAGUERED SIGNER REACHED HIS BREAKG POT WH THE LS-THAN-ACODATG FRENCH. SHE PERFORMED AS THE MOLS TWIRLED THEIR HALSTON ORIGALS, LEADG THE AMERINS TO A TRIUMPH ON THE MOST FRENCH OF HOME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON RETURNED TO AMERI A HERO AND BS BOOMED. HE LNCHED HIS H SIGNATURE AGRANCE 1975, SIGNED UNIFORMS FOR THE GIRL SUTS ET AL. ’76, AND THEN ME STUD 54 ’77. A WORKAHOLIC, HALSTON HAD TO BE ERCED TO GOG TO THE FAMED MANHATTAN DISTHEQUE, BUT ONCE THERE HE FELL LOVE WH .ADAM SCULL/ZEGEIST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIZA, BIAN, ANDY, AND HALSTON AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TO HALSTON, 54 WAS A TE MOCRACY—THE THEME OF AMERI AND AMERIN MOCRACY NS THROUGHOUT HALSTON—WHERE PEOPLE OM ALL WALKS OF LIFE ULD NVERGE ON THE DANCEFLOOR OF LIFE. BOTH HE AND WARHOL WERE TWO GAY BOYS FALLY GRANTED ENTRE TO THE SOCIETY THEY CRAVED, HOBNOBBG WH SUPERSTARS LIKE LIZ TAYLOR, WHOM HALSTON HAD IDOLIZED HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OF URSE, STUD 54 WAS NOTOR FOR S ELIST DOOR POLICI, BUT WHEN YOU’RE HALSTON AND YOU’RE SHOWG UP WH A BEVY OF SUPERMOLS ON ONE ARM AND LIZA MNELLI ON THE OTHER, THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER.©BERRY BERENSON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON MOL/ME ANJELI HTON WH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PARTYG SOON BEME A PROBLEM, HOWEVER, UPLED WH HALSTON’S CREASED PRODUCTIVY. BY THE END OF THE , HALSTON HAD OVER 30 ACTIVE LICENS, WH NO SIGN OF STOPPG OR SLOWG DOWN. IN 1980, HALSTON BROKE GROUND AGA, BEG THE FIRST WTERN SIGNER TO SHOW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN 1982, HE PULLED OFF THE ULTIMATE GAME-CHANGER, SIGNG A LICENSG AL WH JC PENNEY FOR HALSTON III, HIS SENDARY LE THAT WOULD BE SOLD AT THE MASS MERCHANT. AFTER HALSTON III’S BUT FASHN SHOW, BERGDORF GOODMAN DROPPED HALSTON’S MA LE, AND THE FASHN BACKLASH BEGAN. IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS, HALSTON AND S PARENT PANY NORTON SIMON WERE SOLD TO ESMARK, INC., MARKG THE BEGNG OF THE END OF HALSTON.RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE/GETTYGUTS, PAT AST AND HALSTON DURG PARTY FOLLOWG THE COTY AWARDS AT HALSTON'S STUD NEW YORK CY, NEW YORK, UNED STAT. (PHOTO BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON HAPPIER TIM WH PAT AST, CENTER, AFTER THE 1972 COTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NOTORLY NTROLLG SIGNER’S BEHAVR GREW MORE ERRATIC AS HIS E E AND HIS WORKLOAD CREASED, AND 1984 HE WAS FORCED OUT OF HIS OWN PANY AND ROBBED OF HIS NAME. HIS ARCHIVAL SIGNS WERE SOLD OFF AT CUT-RATE PRIC AND HIS METICULOLY PRERVED RERDGS OF FASHN SHOWS, PARTI, AND EVENTS WERE ERASED AND RE-SOLD AS BLANK VHS TAP. THIS IS WHAT THE DOCUMENTARY AS AN ENTRY POT TO THE HALSTON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ACTRS AND FORMER FASHN BLOGGER TAVI GEVSON PLAYS THE NARRATOR, A YOUNG WOMAN CHARGED WH ERASG THOSE TAP AND SORTG THROUGH THE HALSTON ARCHIV. “HER CHARACTER IS KEY TO THE FILM,” TCHENG SAYS OF THE NARRATOR. “SHE DON’T HAVE A LOT OF SCREEN TIME, BUT HER PRENCE HOLDS THE FILM TOGETHER. AT THE END OF THE DAY, WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME TO BRG HALSTON TO THE 21ST CENTURY FOR THE DIENCE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TAVI GEVSON AS NARRATOR A HALSTON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE GEVSON ACTS AS A BRIDGE TO THE PAST AND PRENT, HALSTON MAK OVERWHELMGLY CLEAR HOW AHEAD OF HIS TIME THE SIGNER WAS. HIS MOCRATIC VIEW OF FASHN IS STILL SOMETHG THE DTRY STGGL, AND OFTEN FAILS, TO PTURE. HIS SHOWMANSHIP AND BS ACUMEN PRAGED CELEBRY SIGNERS LIKE CALV KLE, MARC JABS, AND RALPH LREN. AND HIS CLOTH ARE TIMELS THEIR BETY AND SIMPLICY. BUT WHAT SETS HALSTON APART OM OTHER FASHN SIGNERS IS HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS GAY KID OM D MO ME TO EMBODY AMERIN PRI AND AMERIN EXCEPTNALISM WHOUT JGOISTIC PANRG. IN OTHER WORDS, HE WAS AS AMERIN AS APPLE PIE WHOUT FLASHG A GUN AND A FLAG YOUR FACE. HALSTON’S SIGNS, REER, AND LEGACY MAKE NOT ONLY FOR A GREAT DOCUMENTARY, BUT A GREAT REMR THAT THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO BE AN AMERIN, AND MORE THAN ONE WAY TO NTRIBUTE TO THE CULTURE AND THE FABRIC—PUN TEND—OF THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- EWAN MCGREGOR DEFENDS HIS CASTG AS LEGENDARY GAY DIGNER HALSTON
- EWAN MCGREGOR EXPLAS WHY HE TOOK ON GAY ‘HALSTON’ ROLE DPE BACKLASH CONCERNS
- THE HALSTON FAY REPORTEDLY HAS ISSU WH RYAN MURPHY’S “INACCURATE” NETFLIX SERIFAY REPS FOR THE GUCCI AND VERSACE CLANS HAVE ALSO CRICIZED BPICS ABOUT THEIR FAMO RELATIV.BY SAVANNAH WALSHMAY 11, 2021BY ATSHI NISHIJIMA/NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN THE GRAND TRADN OF FASHN-SIGNER BPICS, CLUDG THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE AND THE UPG HOE OF GUCCI, RYAN MURPHY’S IMMENT HALSTON SERI ISN’T GETTG THE FAY’S SEAL OF APPROVAL. AHEAD OF S NETFLIX BOW ON MAY 14, RELATIV OF THE LATE ROY HALSTON FROWICK ARE SPEAKG OUT AGAST THE SHOW. STARRG EWAN MCGREGOR THE TLE ROLE, HALSTON EXPLOR THE SIGNER’S RISE AGAST THE BACKDROP OF STUD 54 AND THE AIDS CRISIS NEW YORK CY. “THE HALSTON ARCHIV AND FAY WERE NOT NSULTED ON THE UPG NETFLIX SERI,” THE FAY SAID A STATEMENT RELEASED ON MAY 10 VIA LLEY FROWICK, HALSTON’S NIECE AND CEO OF HIS ARCHIV. IT WENT ON TO LL THE SHOW “AN ACCURATE, FICTNALIZED ACUNT” OF THE SIGNER’S LIFE. “THE HALSTON ARCHIV REMAS THE ONLY FIVE AND PREHENSIVE SOURCE ON THE MAN AND HIS LEGACY,” THE STATEMENT NTUED, ANNOUNCG PLANS TO LNCH FASHN SCHOLARSHIPS HALSTON’S NAME WH MULTIPLE NONPROFS.MURPHY, MCGREGOR, AND SERI WRER-DIRECTOR DANIEL MAHAN HAVE ALL REMAED MUM ON THE STATEMENT. BUT LAST MONTH THE SHOW’S STAR ADDRSED POTENTIAL BACKLASH OVER HIM PLAYG A GAY ROLE AS A STRAIGHT ACTOR. “IF HAD BEEN A STORY ABOUT HALSTON’S SEXUALY MORE, THEN MAYBE ’S RIGHT THAT GAY ACTORS SHOULD PLAY THAT ROLE,” MCGREGOR TOLD THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. “BUT THIS SE—AND I DON’T WANT TO SOUND LIKE I’M WORMG OUT OF THIS, BEE ’S SOMETHG I DID THK A LOT ABOUT—I SUPPOSE, ULTIMATELY, I FELT LIKE WAS JT ONE PART OF WHO HE WAS.” PROJECTS CENTERED ON INIC FASHN SIGNERS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO FFLE FAIAL FEATHERS. BACK 2018, SEASON TWO OF AMERIN CRIME STORY WAS SLAMMED BY THE VERSACE CLAN A STATEMENT THAT CLAIMED THEY “NEHER THORIZED NOR HAD ANY VOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER” THE “WORK OF FICTN.” (FX SAID THE SERI WAS BASED ON VANY FAIR NTRIBUTOR MREEN ORTH’S “HEAVILY REARCHED AND THENTITED NON-FICTN” BOOK.)JT LAST MONTH, THE GUCCI FAY MA THEIR DISDA WH RIDLEY STT’S HOE OF GUCCI WILY KNOWN, SPE NEAR-UNIVERSAL PRAISE FOR ON-SET PHOTOS PICTURG LADY GAGA AND ADAM DRIVER AS MRIZ GUCCI AND HIS EX-WIFE, PATRIZIA REGGIANI. “WE ARE TLY DISAPPOTED. I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE FAY,” PATRIZIA GUCCI, A SEND OF MRIZ, TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRS. SHE CLAIMED THAT THE FILMMAKERS WERE “STEALG THE INTY OF A FAY TO MAKE A PROF,” BEFORE CRICIZG THE PRODUCTN FOR STG AL PACO AS ALDO GUCCI AND JARED LETO AS HER FATHER, PAOLO GUCCI.WHEN HALSTON PREMIER, WILL FEATURE SEVERAL REAL-LIFE FIGUR, CLUDG LIZA MNELLI (PLAYED BY KRYSTA RODRIGUEZ), JOEL SCHUMACHER (PLAYED BY RORY CULK), AND VICTOR HUGO (PLAYED BY GIAN FRAN RODRIGUEZ). ONLY TIME WILL TELL IF THEIR NER CIRCL CI TO WEIGH ON THE SERI AS WELL.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — AFTER JEN SHAH’S ARRT, HOW CAN WE KEEP ENJOYG REAL HOEWIV?— BARRY JENKS ON BRGG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD TO TV— HOW SWIMMG WH SHARKS TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT STT RUD— QUIL LEMONS’S 2021 VANY FAIR OSR PORTRAS— ANDREW MCCARTHY ON PRETTY PK AND THE BRAT PACK— THE 2021 OSR CEREMONY WAS A NOBLE, DOOMED EXPERIMENT— ELLT PAGE FALLY FEELS “ABLE TO JT EXIST”— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE UNSKABLE JENNIFER ANISTON— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH
INSI HALSTON’S DTCTIVE REAL-LIFE RELATNSHIP WH VICTOR HUGO“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” ANDRé LEON TALLEY RECENTLY SAID OF HUGO, WHOSE RELATNSHIP WH THE SIGNER IS CENTRAL TO NETFLIX’S HALSTON. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”BY JULIE MILLERMAY 14, 2021FROM RON GALELLA COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVESOME BLAME SIGNER HALSTON’S EPIC FALL—OM A SUPERSTAR EMPIRE BUILR TO A MAN FIRED OM HIS OWN BRAND—ON DGS, STUD 54 EXCS, AND BAD BS CISNS. OTHERS BLAME VICTOR HUGO, THE VENEZUELAN SEX WORKER HALSTON MET 1972, DATED FOR OVER A , AND FOLLOWED DOWN A PATH OF RECKLS STCTN.HALSTON, THE SUBJECT OF RYAN MURPHY’S EPONYMO NEW LIMED SERI STARRG EWAN MCGREGOR THE TLE ROLE, HAD BOYIENDS BEFORE HUGO. THE MOST NOTABLE OF THEM WAS ED AT (PLAYED ONSCREEN BY SULLIVAN JON), A HANDSOME MENSWEAR BUYER MCGREGOR’S HALSTON PICKS UP WH THE FIRST FIVE MUT OF THE SERI A MEET-CUTE RIPPED ALMOST DIRECTLY OM REAL LIFE. BUT WHEN THAT RELATNSHIP FIZZLED, ACRDG TO SIMPLY HALSTON—THE STEVEN GA BGRAPHY ON WHICH NETFLIX’S SERI IS BASED—THE SIGNER TOOK TO LLG RTS. AS GA WR:HE WOULD PERHAPS ORR THEM BOTH A STEAK AND A BAKED POTATO LIVERED UP, THEN TAKE THEM TO BED AND SHOW THEM THE DOOR. JOE EULA, THE FASHN ILLTRATOR AND ONE OF HALSTON’S CLOST NFIDANTS, TOOK TO LLG THIS PRACTICE “DIAL-A-STEAK, DIAL-A-DICK,” WHICH HALSTON THOUGHT WAS HYSTERILLY FUNNY. ONE NIGHT 1972, THE YOUNG MAN WHO SHOWED UP AT HALSTON’S APARTMENT OM THE LL-BOY SERVICE CHANGED HIS LIFE.THE 24-YEAR-OLD TOLD HALSTON THAT HIS NAME WAS VICTOR HUGO—A PUN ON HIS ANATOMY, RATHER THAN AN HOMAGE TO THE FRENCH WRER AND POET RPONSIBLE FOR L MISéRABL. (“BELIEVE ME, HE WASN’T READG FRENCH LERATURE,” SNIPED FORMER VOGUE EDOR ANDRé LEON TALLEY A RECENT TERVIEW WH THE NEW YORK TIM.)“IT WAS PURE LT. I THK HALSTON HAD A LIFE THAT WAS BARREN OF ROMANCE AND TENRNS,” GA TOLD VANY FAIR. HALSTON RIVED WARMTH OM HIS IENDSHIPS WH WOMEN LIKE LIZA MNELLI AND ELSA PERETTI; HIS ATTRACTN TO HUGO, GA THEORIZED TO LOGO, WAS MORE PLITED. “HALSTON LIKED BEG HUIATED AND HAVG THE SHOCK VALUE OF HAVG VICTOR AROUND,” HE SAID. “IT WAS A WHOLE OTHER SI TO HALSTON…. HALSTON LIKED TO BE ON THE SHOCKG END OF THGS. VICTOR WOULD SHOW UP AT STUD 54 WEARG A HOSE OVER HIS DICK. AND HE PISSED AND ME ON NVAS FOR ANDY WARHOL…. VICTOR ALSO END UP BEG ILL AND HAD NO RPECT FOR ANYTHG. HE THOUGHT HE WAS UNTOUCHABLE.”THOUGH HALSTON ULD BE LD, CUTTG, AND IMPER LATER HIS REER, HUGO—A BRASH, ENTLED ER AND WARHOL ENTOURAGE FIGURE—PROVED TO BE HALSTON’S KRYPTONE. “HE ULDN’T GET RID OF HIM,” GA TOLD V.F. “AND BELIEVE ME, VICTOR WOULDN’T LET HIM GO.”THE YEAR AFTER HALSTON MET HUGO, THE SIGNER WAS ARGUABLY AT THE TOP OF HIS REER—GROSSG NEARLY $30 LN RETAIL SAL, HAVG AMASSED THREE PRTIG COTY AWARDS (A FASHN WORLD PRECSOR TO THE CFDA AWARDS), AND BEG EMED “ONE OF THE GREATS” BY WOMEN’S WEAR. “HALSTON’S MONEY AND HUGO’S APPETE FOR EXCS MA THE PAIR AN ACCINT WAG TO HAPPEN,” MED TELEGRAPH A RETROSPECTIVE PUBLISHED 2001.HALSTON MOVED HUGO TO HIS HOME, PUT HIM ON THE PANY PAYROLL, AND EVENTUALLY LET HIS BOYIEND DRS THE WDOWS OF HIS BOUTIQUE—EVEN THOUGH HALSTON’S PREV BOYIEND, AT, WAS ALREADY DOG THAT JOB. THE NFLICT BETWEEN THEM ME TO A HEAD DURG THE CHRISTMAS SEASON OF 1973, WHEN HALSTON HAD HUGO RERATE A WDOW AT HAD SIGNED.“I WAS FIRED. CHRISTMAS EVE, THANK YOU—OUT THE DOOR, NO SEVERANCE, NOTHG,” AT TOLD GA, REVEALG THAT HE NEVER SAW THE SIGNER AGA.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHIN THE MID-’70S, HALSTON WAS UNR TREMENDO PRSURE, AS HIS EMPIRE EXPAND TO AGRANCE, LUGGAGE, MENSWEAR, LGERIE, AND HANDBAGS. HE WAS PRIMED FOR A RELEASE VALVE WHEN STUD 54 OPENED 1977—AND HALSTON JUMPED HEADFIRST TO THE NEW VENUE, CHANGG HIS OFFICE HOURS TO TER TO HIS PARTYG SCHLE AND SUPPORTG HUGO AS HE PLAYED HOST TO LAVISH AFTER-PARTI AT HALSTON’S UPPER EAST SI TOWNHOME. THE PARTI, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORK POST, FEATURED “MAN-ON-MAN I LATE TO THE NIGHT [THAT ANDY] WARHOL ENJOYED PHOTOGRAPHG OM THE SIL.” AS PUBLICIST R. COURI HAY TOLD THE POST, “VICTOR HAD THE KEYS TO THE SAFE WH THE E.”“VICTOR WAS A STCTIVE FORCE,” SAID LONGTIME VANY FAIR SPECIAL RRPONNT BOB COLACELLO 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY. “ANDY DID VICTOR’S PORTRAS. HE DID TWO. ONE DAY HE SHOWS UP, AND THE PATG IS PLETELY VERED WH GRAFFI. [VICTOR] HAD PATED OVER THEM, THKG THAT THIS WAS TAKG ANDY’S ART TO ANOTHER LEVEL. AND ANDY WAS REALLY MAD. HE WAS LIKE, ‘DON’T THK I’M DOG NEW ON, VICTOR.’”WHEN HALSTON AND HUGO STOPPED SLEEPG TOGETHER, THE FASHN SIGNER TURNED TO OTHER RTS LIKE ROBERT ROGERS, “AN UNASSUMG BLACK MAN OF MEDIUM HEIGHT AND BUILD HIS LATE TWENTI WHO WAS ONE OF MANHATTAN’S MOST SUCCSFUL MALE PROSTUT,” WROTE GA.BUT HALSTON ULD NOT PLETELY CUT OFF HIS FORMER PARTNER—EVEN WHEN HUGO BEGAN STEALG OM HIM TO FUND HIS DG HAB. “HE STOLE SOME WARHOLS, BUT HE ALSO TOOK THE STERLG SILVER ELSA PERETTI NDLTICKS ON THE TABLE,” GA TOLD V.F., REVEALG THAT HALSTON NTUED TO BANKROLL HUGO’S LIFTYLE AFTER THEY BROKE UP—PAYG FOR HIS HOG AND WRG HIM CHECKS.“THE PERSON THAT HALSTON LOVED, MORE THAN HIS OWN LIFE, WAS VICTOR,” HALSTON’S PERSONAL ASSISTANT PECH VALLS TOLD GA. HALSTON’S IEND SASSY JOHNSON HAD ANOTHER TAKE ON THE RELATNSHIP.“MY THEORY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT HALSTON ME OM AN ALHOLIC FAY, THAT HIS FATHER HAD A PROBLEM,” SAID JOHNSON 2019’S HALSTON. “AND THAT HALSTON RECREATED HIS FAY LIFE WH VICTOR AS THE DYSFUNCTNAL PERSON WHO IS NSTANTLY GOG TO KEEP EVERYTHG OFF BALANCE.”“I THK THAT’S PROBABLY A VERY GOOD ANALYSIS,” SAID GA, EXPLAG THAT HALSTON’S FATHER DID “PRETTY HORRIBLE THGS” TO THE FAY WHEN THEY WERE GROWG UP EVANSVILLE, INDIANA—CLUDG TO HALSTON’S SISTER AND BROTHER. “AND THEY WEREN’T GAY. I THK HALSTON HAD A VERY, VERY, VERY TOUGH TIME. I N’T IMAGE WHAT WAS LIKE FOR A GAY LTLE BOY TO BE THERE.”AFTER HALSTON WAS DIAGNOSED WH HIV 1988, HE MOVED TO SAN FRANCIS TO BE CLOSER TO HIS FAY—AND TO GET AWAY OM HUGO. HALSTON’S NIECE LLEY FROWICK TOLD PEOPLE THAT HALSTON’S FAL YEARS, “HE TOLERATED [HUGO], BUT HE WAS TROUBLE.”EVEN AFTER HALSTON’S 1990 ATH, HUGO NTUED TO TRY TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE SIGNER, ACRDG TO GA. “VICTOR ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT GIVE ME AN TERVIEW UNLS I PAID HIM. ALL THE MONEY JT WENT UP HIS NOSE AND ON CRAZY SPENDG AND STCTIVE STUFF.”MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHREE S LATER, HALSTON’S IENDS STILL POT FGERS AT HUGO FOR HIS NEGATIVE FLUENCE ON THE SIGNER.“THAT VENEZUELAN LL BOY WAS HIS DOWNFALL,” LONGTIME TALLEY TOLD THE NEW YORK TIM. “HE WAS A GRIFTER WHO CLUNG ON LIKE A PARASE, LIKE A BARNACLE ON A SHIP.”AND 2019’S HALSTON DOCUMENTARY, FILMMAKER FRéDéRIC TCHENG ASKED THE SIGNER’S ILLTRATOR AND NFIDANT JOE EULA FOR HIS ANALYSIS OF THE STCTIVE RELATNSHIP. EULA MCED NO WORDS.“WHY DID HALSTON PUT UP WH VICTOR?” TCHENG ASKS.“BEE HE WAS LOVE WH HIM,” EULA REPLI.“WHEN DID FALL APART?” TCHENG PRS.“THE DAY THEY MET,” EULA RPONDS, WHOUT HATN.IN MAKG NETFLIX’S HALSTON, THOUGH, THE SERI CREATORS WANTED TO MAKE HUGO (PLAYED BY GIAN FRAN RODRIGUEZ) A FULLY DIMENSNAL CHARACTER—AND DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DANIEL MAHAN WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO UNRSTAND HIM.“VICTOR WAS THE HARST CHARACTER TO WRE BEE HE WAS A DISPTOR,” MAHAN TOLD VANY FAIR, REVEALG THAT HE SPOKE TO FASHN SIGNER AND HALSTON PROTéGé NAEEM KHAN BEFORE FILMG. KHAN TOLD HIM THAT “SPE ALL OF HIS SANY AND THE DISPTN, VICTOR WAS A PERSON WHO ULD MAKE YOU SEE THGS A DIFFERENT WAY.”“BEE HALSTON AND HUGO MET THIS TRANSACTNAL WAY, WHEN VICTOR WAS A HTLER, AT LEAST OUR STORY, THE DYNAMIC IS THAT HALSTON IS NEVER SURE WHETHER HE N FULLY TST VICTOR,” EXPLAED MAHAN. “HE DON’T KNOW WHETHER VICTOR REALLY LOV HIM, OR WHETHER HE’S THERE FOR THE PRIVILEGE AND THE MONEY. AND I THK VICTOR IS NOT SURE WHETHER HALSTON REALLY LOV HIM BEE HE MET HIM AS A PROSTUTE. I THK ’S THIS REALLY LOAD SORT OF DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.”“I THK VICTOR GOT SO EP TO HIS ADDICTN AND SO OVERWHELMED AND DNK OFF THE ATTENTN THEY WERE GETTG THAT HE BEME A REALLY STCTIVE FORCE,” NTUED MAHAN. “I THK MAYBE VICTOR, THE BEGNG, WAS THE PERSON WHO ULD TELL HALSTON THE TTH ABOUT THGS. BUT THEN THAT BEME SOMETHG MORE MANIPULATIVE. THEIR RELATNSHIP IS A SAD STORY. BUT I THK WE KD OF TRY TO PTURE THE EXCEMENT OF AND THE DANGER OF , AND THEN FALLY THE DYSFUNCTN OF .”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — AFTER JEN SHAH’S ARRT, HOW CAN WE KEEP ENJOYG REAL HOEWIV?— BARRY JENKS ON BRGG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD TO TV— HOW SWIMMG WH SHARKS TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT STT RUD— QUIL LEMONS’S 2021 VANY FAIR OSR PORTRAS— ANDREW MCCARTHY ON PRETTY PK AND THE BRAT PACK— THE 2021 OSR CEREMONY WAS A NOBLE, DOOMED EXPERIMENT— ELLT PAGE FALLY FEELS “ABLE TO JT EXIST”— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE UNSKABLE JENNIFER ANISTON— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.JULIE MILLER
“And they weren’t gay. I n’t image what was like for a gay ltle boy to be there.
IN "HALSTON," INIC DIGNER GETS HIS DUE AS A GREAT GAY AMERIN HEROTHE NEW DOCUMENTARY IS HEAVY ON BOTH STYLE AND SUBSTANCE. {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEMAY 1, 2019/12:47 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3617PX;WIDTH:5502PX;}©ESTATE OF CHARL TRACYBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEMAY 1, 2019 / 12:47 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"IN \"HALSTON,\" INIC DIGNER GETS HIS DUE AS A GREAT GAY AMERIN HERO","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-05-01T16:47:11.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-05-01T16:47:11.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FASHN DOCUMENTARI, ALMOST AS A LE, ARE ALWAYS GREAT. FASHN PEOPLE ARE SUCH A UNIQUELY ECCENTRIC SUBSET OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE ART OUT OF SIMPLY LIVG THAT SHG A LIGHT ON THEIR EXISTENCE OFTEN RULTS A FEAST FOR THE SENS, OR AT THE VERY LEAST, A GUIBOOK TO YOUR OWN LIFE. THE CHARACTERS THAT POPULATE HALSTON, THE NEW DOC BY FRéDéRIC TCHENG ABOUT THE LEGENDARY SIGNER WHO PUT AMERIN FASHN ON THE MAP, ARE NO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE’S AN ARCHIVAL TERVIEW WH JEWELRY SIGNER AND EQUENT HALSTON LLABORATOR ELSA PERETTI, WHO, BETWEEN DRAGS OM AN EVER-PRENT CIGARETTE OR SIP OM AN ALWAYS-WH-REACH CKTAIL, HER TRAMARK GLASS PERCHED PRERLY BELOW THE BRIDGE OF HER NOSE, HAS NO PROBLEM SCRIBG HER LD REER AS SOMETHG SHE TRIED THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A BIG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THEN OF URSE, THERE’S THE POSTER CHILD FOR FABULO ECCENTRICY, LIZA MNELLI, HALSTON’S BT IEND AND MOST FAMO AND LOYAL CLIENT. HALSTON DRSED LIZA FOR THE BIGGT MOMENTS HER LIFE: FROM HER TELEVISN SPECIAL LIZA WH A Z, TO THE GOWN SHE WON HER OSR , TO HER NIGHTS WH HIM AND IENDS LIKE BIAN JAGGER, ELIZABETH TAYLOR, AND ANDY WARHOL AT STUD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN ASKED ABOUT HALSTON’S DG E, LOYAL TO THE END, LIZA DIPLOMATILLY REF TO MENT—CG THE HARSH TREATMENT HER MOTHER, HER FATHER, AND SHE HERSELF RECEIVED AT THE HANDS OF THE MEDIA.©BERRY BERENSON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON AND LIZA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR PERETTI, HOWEVER, THE DGS WERE JT A PART OF LIFE— WAS HOW ONE STAYED UP ALL NIGHT WORKG, AS HALSTON DID FOR YEARS AND YEARS, BUILDG HIS EMPIRE OM A LTLE LERY TUCKED AWAY BERGDORF GOODMAN’S TO A LICENSG BEHEMOTH SELLG EVERYTHG OM LOGNE TO LUGGAGE. BEG A TE AMERIN SIGNER, HAILG OM THE MIDWT, HALSTON WANTED TO MOCRATIZE FASHN, AND SO HE PROVID UNIFORMS FOR PEOPLE UALLY NOT GRANTED ENTRY TO THE WORLD OF HIGH FASHN: THE GIRL SUTS OF AMERI, BRANIFF INTERNATNAL AIRWAYS, THE 1976 OLYMPIC TEAM, AND THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON TOOK THIS IA EVEN FURTHER WH AN UNPRECENTED AL WH JC PENNEY TO CREATE WHAT IS NOW REFERRED TO AS A DIFFN LE. WHILE TODAY NEARLY EVERY HIGH-END FASHN HOE HAS A LS EXPENSIVE, MORE ACCSIBLE LE—OM PRADA’S MIU MIU TO VERSACE’S VERS—THE 1982 AL PROVED DISASTRO FOR HALSTON. HE EVENTUALLY LOST HIS PANY TWO YEARS LATER, AND WH THE E OF HIS NAME. HE DIED OM AIDS-RELATED PLITNS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEREAS HE HAD LED THE ’70S AND EARLY ’80S, BEG THE FIRST CELEBRY SIGNER, BY THE TIME HE DIED, HALSTON HAD FAD TO RELATIVE OBSCURY. “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HALSTON?” WAS THE POPULAR REA. THERE WAS NO BIG, SPLASHY EBACK. NO THIRD ACT. HE WAS THE MOST SUCCSFUL AMERIN FASHN SIGNER EVER AND THEN…HE WASN’T.HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGCIR 1975: STUD PORTRA OF AMERIN FASHN SIGNER HALSTON (ROY HALSTON FROWICK, 1932 - 1990) STG ONT OF MOLS WEARG HIS CLOTH, WHICH ARE MA OM ORDATED FABRICS. (PHOTO BY HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE EMPEROR, HALSTON (SEATED), AND HIS NEW CLOTH, CIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR A GENERATN OF VIEWERS WHO HAD NEVER HEARD OF HALSTON, OR THOSE WHO HAD WONRED AS TO HIS WHEREABOUTS, THCENG’S DOCUMENTARY DO A FE JOB OF PTURG WHAT MA HALSTON SUCH A GREAT SIGNER, BSMAN, AND SHOWMAN, ALL WHILE IMBUG THE FILM WH THE HEADY PLEASURE THAT FED HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROY HALSTON FROWICK WAS BORN ON APRIL 23, 1932 D MO, IOWA. HE MOVED TO EVANSVILLE, INDIANA WH HIS FAY AT AGE 10, BUT HE WAS NOT LONG FOR THE MIDWT AND AFTER ATTENDG THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTUTE OF CHIGO, HALSTON BEGAN WORKG AS A LER THE WDY CY. IN 1957, NOW GOG SOLELY BY HALSTON, HE MOVED TO NEW YORK AND QUICKLY TABLISHED HIMSELF THERE, LANDG THE LEAD LER ROLE AT BERGDORF’S 1960. THE FOLLOWG YEAR HE SIGNED JACKIE KENNEDY’S INIC PILLBOX HAT FOR THE GURATN OF HER HBAND JOHN F. KENNEDY.PL SCHUTZER/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/GETTY IMAGDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 20: JACQUELE KENNEDY (2L) AND HER HBAND, NEWLY ELECTED PRINT JOHN F. KENNEDY (R) ON THE DAY OF HIS INGURATN TO OFFICE. (PHOTO BY PL SCHUTZER/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JACKIE KENNEDY HALSTON'S PILLBOX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT LTLE HAT MA HALSTON A STAR, BUT HE REALIZED THAT HE WOULD FOREVER BE A HOMOSEXUAL-FOR-HIRE, AT THE BECK AND LL OF HIS WEALTHY CLIENTS, UNLS HE STCK OUT ON HIS OWN. IN 1968, HALSTON OPENED HIS OWN SALON ON 68TH AND MADISON, LNCHG HIS FIRST READY-TO-WEAR LLECTN THE FOLLOWG YEAR.©JEAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON THE '{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TCHENG TERVIEWED A NUMBER OF THE MOLS THAT HALSTON MA PART OF HIS HAREM, THE HALSTOT, CLUDG KAREN BJORNSON, PAT CLEVELAND, AND ALVA CHN. ALONG WH LIZA THEY ALL PRAISED HALSTON’S SIGNS FOR MAKG THEM FEEL BOTH STRONG AND SEXY. HALSTON’S LOVE OF THE WOMEN HE DRSED AND HIS GENI FOR SIGN REALLY SHE THROUGH TCHENG’S DOCUMENTARY.©DT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEFT TO RIGHT, PAT CLEVELAND, CHRIS ROYER, HALSTON, ALVA CHN, AND KAREN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON WANTED TO DRS WOMEN OF ALL SHAP AND LORS AND SURROUND HIMSELF WH MULTI-ETHNIC MOLS AND EMPLOYED ZAFTIG WARHOL FACTORY STAR PAT AST AS A MOL, ME, AND HOE MANAGER. SHE, TOO, FOUND HIS CLOTH EMPOWERG. THEY WERE SIMPLE, HIS CLOTH, YET EVEN TODAY THEY LOOK MORN; DIAPHANO AD BREATHTAKGLY BETIFUL. “HIS CLOTH DANCED WH YOU,” ACRDG TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON DRAMATILLY DRAPG A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THOSE CLOTH WERE ALSO GENI OF SIGN. HALSTON WOULD MAKE GOWNS OUT OF A SGLE PIECE OF FABRIC; THE PATTERNS HE CREATED WERE SOPHISTITED FEATS OF ENGEERG. IN 1972, HALSTON TRODUCED A SHIRTDRS MA OF ULTRASUE, A SYNTHETIC JAPANE FABRIC VENTED 1970, THAT BEME AN STANT SENSATN, LANDG ON THE VER OF NEWSWEEK. THEN 1973, AN UNPRECENTED MOVE, HALSTON SOLD HIS ENTIRE BS TO NORTON SIMON, INC., MAKG HIM THE FIRST SIGNER TO HAVE HIS TRAMARKS PURCHASED BY A RPORATE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH ULTRASUE, A GLZY CLIENTELE, AND THE NORTON SIMON ACQUISN, HALSTON BEME THE MOST POPULAR AND SUCCSFUL FASHN SIGNER AMERI—SO WAS ONLY NATURAL THAT HE SHOULD REPRENT THE UNTRY A UTURE BATTLE ROYALE FOR THE AG.AFP/GETTY IMAGUS SGER LIZA MNELLI PERFORMS ON NOVEMBER 29, 1973 DURG A NCERT TO BENEF THE RTORATN OF THE PALACE OF VERSAILL. (PHOTO BY - / AFP) (PHOTO CRED SHOULD READ -/AFP/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIZA AND THE HALSTOT SLAYG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE BATTLE OF VERSAILL PUT AMERIN FASHN ON THE MAP. BEFORE , PARIS WAS THE ONLY STATN FOR SER UTURIERS AND AMERI WAS REGARD AS, AT BT, A BUNCH OF UPSTART HACKS. THAT ALL CHANGED 1973. CONCEIVED AS A FUNDRAISER FOR THE AILG PALACE OF VERSAILL, THE ONCE--A-LIFETIME EVEN PTED THE TOP FIVE FRENCH SIGNERS AGAST THE TOP FIVE AMERIN. HALSTON AND HIS TERIE OF MULTICULTURAL M STOLE THE SHOW, WH LIZA STEPPG AS ACH WHEN THE BELEAGUERED SIGNER REACHED HIS BREAKG POT WH THE LS-THAN-ACODATG FRENCH. SHE PERFORMED AS THE MOLS TWIRLED THEIR HALSTON ORIGALS, LEADG THE AMERINS TO A TRIUMPH ON THE MOST FRENCH OF HOME {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON RETURNED TO AMERI A HERO AND BS BOOMED. HE LNCHED HIS H SIGNATURE AGRANCE 1975, SIGNED UNIFORMS FOR THE GIRL SUTS ET AL. ’76, AND THEN ME STUD 54 ’77. A WORKAHOLIC, HALSTON HAD TO BE ERCED TO GOG TO THE FAMED MANHATTAN DISTHEQUE, BUT ONCE THERE HE FELL LOVE WH .ADAM SCULL/ZEGEIST {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LIZA, BIAN, ANDY, AND HALSTON AT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TO HALSTON, 54 WAS A TE MOCRACY—THE THEME OF AMERI AND AMERIN MOCRACY NS THROUGHOUT HALSTON—WHERE PEOPLE OM ALL WALKS OF LIFE ULD NVERGE ON THE DANCEFLOOR OF LIFE. BOTH HE AND WARHOL WERE TWO GAY BOYS FALLY GRANTED ENTRE TO THE SOCIETY THEY CRAVED, HOBNOBBG WH SUPERSTARS LIKE LIZ TAYLOR, WHOM HALSTON HAD IDOLIZED HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OF URSE, STUD 54 WAS NOTOR FOR S ELIST DOOR POLICI, BUT WHEN YOU’RE HALSTON AND YOU’RE SHOWG UP WH A BEVY OF SUPERMOLS ON ONE ARM AND LIZA MNELLI ON THE OTHER, THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER.©BERRY BERENSON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON MOL/ME ANJELI HTON WH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE PARTYG SOON BEME A PROBLEM, HOWEVER, UPLED WH HALSTON’S CREASED PRODUCTIVY. BY THE END OF THE , HALSTON HAD OVER 30 ACTIVE LICENS, WH NO SIGN OF STOPPG OR SLOWG DOWN. IN 1980, HALSTON BROKE GROUND AGA, BEG THE FIRST WTERN SIGNER TO SHOW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEN 1982, HE PULLED OFF THE ULTIMATE GAME-CHANGER, SIGNG A LICENSG AL WH JC PENNEY FOR HALSTON III, HIS SENDARY LE THAT WOULD BE SOLD AT THE MASS MERCHANT. AFTER HALSTON III’S BUT FASHN SHOW, BERGDORF GOODMAN DROPPED HALSTON’S MA LE, AND THE FASHN BACKLASH BEGAN. IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS, HALSTON AND S PARENT PANY NORTON SIMON WERE SOLD TO ESMARK, INC., MARKG THE BEGNG OF THE END OF HALSTON.RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE/GETTYGUTS, PAT AST AND HALSTON DURG PARTY FOLLOWG THE COTY AWARDS AT HALSTON'S STUD NEW YORK CY, NEW YORK, UNED STAT. (PHOTO BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HALSTON HAPPIER TIM WH PAT AST, CENTER, AFTER THE 1972 COTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NOTORLY NTROLLG SIGNER’S BEHAVR GREW MORE ERRATIC AS HIS E E AND HIS WORKLOAD CREASED, AND 1984 HE WAS FORCED OUT OF HIS OWN PANY AND ROBBED OF HIS NAME. HIS ARCHIVAL SIGNS WERE SOLD OFF AT CUT-RATE PRIC AND HIS METICULOLY PRERVED RERDGS OF FASHN SHOWS, PARTI, AND EVENTS WERE ERASED AND RE-SOLD AS BLANK VHS TAP. THIS IS WHAT THE DOCUMENTARY AS AN ENTRY POT TO THE HALSTON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ACTRS AND FORMER FASHN BLOGGER TAVI GEVSON PLAYS THE NARRATOR, A YOUNG WOMAN CHARGED WH ERASG THOSE TAP AND SORTG THROUGH THE HALSTON ARCHIV. “HER CHARACTER IS KEY TO THE FILM,” TCHENG SAYS OF THE NARRATOR. “SHE DON’T HAVE A LOT OF SCREEN TIME, BUT HER PRENCE HOLDS THE FILM TOGETHER. AT THE END OF THE DAY, WAS VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME TO BRG HALSTON TO THE 21ST CENTURY FOR THE DIENCE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TAVI GEVSON AS NARRATOR A HALSTON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE GEVSON ACTS AS A BRIDGE TO THE PAST AND PRENT, HALSTON MAK OVERWHELMGLY CLEAR HOW AHEAD OF HIS TIME THE SIGNER WAS. HIS MOCRATIC VIEW OF FASHN IS STILL SOMETHG THE DTRY STGGL, AND OFTEN FAILS, TO PTURE. HIS SHOWMANSHIP AND BS ACUMEN PRAGED CELEBRY SIGNERS LIKE CALV KLE, MARC JABS, AND RALPH LREN. AND HIS CLOTH ARE TIMELS THEIR BETY AND SIMPLICY. BUT WHAT SETS HALSTON APART OM OTHER FASHN SIGNERS IS HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS GAY KID OM D MO ME TO EMBODY AMERIN PRI AND AMERIN EXCEPTNALISM WHOUT JGOISTIC PANRG. IN OTHER WORDS, HE WAS AS AMERIN AS APPLE PIE WHOUT FLASHG A GUN AND A FLAG YOUR FACE. HALSTON’S SIGNS, REER, AND LEGACY MAKE NOT ONLY FOR A GREAT DOCUMENTARY, BUT A GREAT REMR THAT THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO BE AN AMERIN, AND MORE THAN ONE WAY TO NTRIBUTE TO THE CULTURE AND THE FABRIC—PUN TEND—OF THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
Halston lived an openly gay liftyle alongsi his boyiend Victor Hugo. Acrdg to Halston bgrapher Steven Ga, the fashn signer never me out as gay on the rerd but lived an openly gay liftyle His most well-known relatnship was wh Venezuelan-born wdow drser Victor Hugo, wh whom he had a chaotic relatnship that necsated a non-disclosure agreement. They first met at a tea dance on Fire Island, a famo gay vatn spot New York.
Kennedy Halston's pillbox hatThat ltle hat ma Halston a star, but he realized that he would forever be a homosexual-for-hire, at the beck and ll of his wealthy clients, unls he stck out on his own.
Both he and Warhol were two gay boys fally granted entre to the society they craved, hobnobbg wh superstars like Liz Taylor, whom Halston had idolized his urse, Stud 54 was notor for s elist door polici, but when you’re Halston and you’re showg up wh a bevy of supermols on one arm and Liza Mnelli on the other, the world is your oyster.
EWAN MCGREGOR DEFENDS HIS CASTG AS LEGENDARY GAY DIGNER HALSTON
But what sets Halston apart om other fashn signers is his gay kid om D Mo me to embody Amerin pri and Amerin exceptnalism whout jgoistic panrg. We see Halston try to pick up Ed At a (prumably gay) NYC bar and they end up sleepg together. Jedi daddy Ewan McGregor has played gay characters before, most notably Todd Hayn’s Velvet Goldme 1998 and oppose Jim Carrey 2009’s I Love You Phillip Morris.
EWAN MCGREGOR EXPLAS WHY HE TOOK ON GAY ‘HALSTON’ ROLE DPE BACKLASH CONCERNS
McGregor intifi as straight, and Halston was an out gay man the public eye whose ntributns to queer culture — om his close iendship wh Liza Mnelli to his signs that fed the look of the Stud 54 dis era — are separable om his story. Durg the terview, THR quoted Billy Porter at a 2019 Actors Roundtable sayg, “Straight men playg gay — everyone wants to give them an award.
” McGregor rpond, “If had been a story about Halston’s sexualy more, then maybe ’s right that gay actors should play that role.
Ewan McGregor Defends His Castg As Gay Digner Halston.
THE HALSTON FAY REPORTEDLY HAS ISSU WH RYAN MURPHY’S “INACCURATE” NETFLIX SERIFAY REPS FOR THE GUCCI AND VERSACE CLANS HAVE ALSO CRICIZED BPICS ABOUT THEIR FAMO RELATIV.BY SAVANNAH WALSHMAY 11, 2021BY ATSHI NISHIJIMA/NETFLIX.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN THE GRAND TRADN OF FASHN-SIGNER BPICS, CLUDG THE ASSASSATN OF GIANNI VERSACE AND THE UPG HOE OF GUCCI, RYAN MURPHY’S IMMENT HALSTON SERI ISN’T GETTG THE FAY’S SEAL OF APPROVAL. AHEAD OF S NETFLIX BOW ON MAY 14, RELATIV OF THE LATE ROY HALSTON FROWICK ARE SPEAKG OUT AGAST THE SHOW. STARRG EWAN MCGREGOR THE TLE ROLE, HALSTON EXPLOR THE SIGNER’S RISE AGAST THE BACKDROP OF STUD 54 AND THE AIDS CRISIS NEW YORK CY. “THE HALSTON ARCHIV AND FAY WERE NOT NSULTED ON THE UPG NETFLIX SERI,” THE FAY SAID A STATEMENT RELEASED ON MAY 10 VIA LLEY FROWICK, HALSTON’S NIECE AND CEO OF HIS ARCHIV. IT WENT ON TO LL THE SHOW “AN ACCURATE, FICTNALIZED ACUNT” OF THE SIGNER’S LIFE. “THE HALSTON ARCHIV REMAS THE ONLY FIVE AND PREHENSIVE SOURCE ON THE MAN AND HIS LEGACY,” THE STATEMENT NTUED, ANNOUNCG PLANS TO LNCH FASHN SCHOLARSHIPS HALSTON’S NAME WH MULTIPLE NONPROFS.MURPHY, MCGREGOR, AND SERI WRER-DIRECTOR DANIEL MAHAN HAVE ALL REMAED MUM ON THE STATEMENT. BUT LAST MONTH THE SHOW’S STAR ADDRSED POTENTIAL BACKLASH OVER HIM PLAYG A GAY ROLE AS A STRAIGHT ACTOR. “IF HAD BEEN A STORY ABOUT HALSTON’S SEXUALY MORE, THEN MAYBE ’S RIGHT THAT GAY ACTORS SHOULD PLAY THAT ROLE,” MCGREGOR TOLD THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. “BUT THIS SE—AND I DON’T WANT TO SOUND LIKE I’M WORMG OUT OF THIS, BEE ’S SOMETHG I DID THK A LOT ABOUT—I SUPPOSE, ULTIMATELY, I FELT LIKE WAS JT ONE PART OF WHO HE WAS.” PROJECTS CENTERED ON INIC FASHN SIGNERS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO FFLE FAIAL FEATHERS. BACK 2018, SEASON TWO OF AMERIN CRIME STORY WAS SLAMMED BY THE VERSACE CLAN A STATEMENT THAT CLAIMED THEY “NEHER THORIZED NOR HAD ANY VOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER” THE “WORK OF FICTN.” (FX SAID THE SERI WAS BASED ON VANY FAIR NTRIBUTOR MREEN ORTH’S “HEAVILY REARCHED AND THENTITED NON-FICTN” BOOK.)JT LAST MONTH, THE GUCCI FAY MA THEIR DISDA WH RIDLEY STT’S HOE OF GUCCI WILY KNOWN, SPE NEAR-UNIVERSAL PRAISE FOR ON-SET PHOTOS PICTURG LADY GAGA AND ADAM DRIVER AS MRIZ GUCCI AND HIS EX-WIFE, PATRIZIA REGGIANI. “WE ARE TLY DISAPPOTED. I SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE FAY,” PATRIZIA GUCCI, A SEND OF MRIZ, TOLD THE ASSOCIATED PRS. SHE CLAIMED THAT THE FILMMAKERS WERE “STEALG THE INTY OF A FAY TO MAKE A PROF,” BEFORE CRICIZG THE PRODUCTN FOR STG AL PACO AS ALDO GUCCI AND JARED LETO AS HER FATHER, PAOLO GUCCI.WHEN HALSTON PREMIER, WILL FEATURE SEVERAL REAL-LIFE FIGUR, CLUDG LIZA MNELLI (PLAYED BY KRYSTA RODRIGUEZ), JOEL SCHUMACHER (PLAYED BY RORY CULK), AND VICTOR HUGO (PLAYED BY GIAN FRAN RODRIGUEZ). ONLY TIME WILL TELL IF THEIR NER CIRCL CI TO WEIGH ON THE SERI AS WELL.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — AFTER JEN SHAH’S ARRT, HOW CAN WE KEEP ENJOYG REAL HOEWIV?— BARRY JENKS ON BRGG THE UNRGROUND RAILROAD TO TV— HOW SWIMMG WH SHARKS TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT STT RUD— QUIL LEMONS’S 2021 VANY FAIR OSR PORTRAS— ANDREW MCCARTHY ON PRETTY PK AND THE BRAT PACK— THE 2021 OSR CEREMONY WAS A NOBLE, DOOMED EXPERIMENT— ELLT PAGE FALLY FEELS “ABLE TO JT EXIST”— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE UNSKABLE JENNIFER ANISTON— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHSAVANNAH WALSH
As part of the actor’s ver story for The Hollywood Reporter, the publitn reports that “McGregor was ncerned that takg on a gay in like Halston might rult a backlash. ” McGregor has played gay characters throughout his reer (see “I Love You Phillip Morris” for starters), but there’s a more heightened awarens the days about straight actors tacklg queer rol.
Straight men playg gay — everyone wants to give them an award. “If had been a story about Halston’s sexualy more, then maybe ’s right that gay actors should play that role, ” McGregor add, explag why he felt fortable takg on a gay role “Halston” specifilly.