Mostly, though, Halston being Halston is reduced to Halston being told in declarative sentences that he’s Halston Halston explaining to people in florid terms that he’s Halston and the occasional musical montage interspersed with cocaine snorting.
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There are bursts in which the writing, but mostly really Minahan’s direction, is able to zero in on parts of Halston’s process, peaking in a fifth-episode collaboration with Martha Graham that was the only time in the series I felt an iota of emotion. For a show obsessed with the idea of Halston’s brand, this miniseries couldn’t have less to say about how his identity was shaped, preferring to present the designer as a compilation of clichés instead of intriguingly enigmatic. We get a sketch of Halston as a lonely boy fixated on his mother and terrified by an abusive father that would be reductive whether or not you knew that Halston had a group of siblings who have been shepherding his legacy since his death, and - in addition to having no participation here - have been completely erased. The whole show could have been built around this moment and these flashbacks, but despite using Steven Gaines’ Simply Halston as source material, Halston has neither insight nor curiosity into Halston’s Midwestern upbringing. This is a great idea, since Halston’s perfume was among his greatest financial successes and because Farmiga, accent aside, is many times more compelling than most of the show’s guest stars.
Or take Halston’s encounter with a sensualist parfumier (Vera Farmiga with an amusingly hammy accent), whose efforts to help the designer make his signature fragrance provoke a series of flashbacks. It’s been featured in several documentaries and it’s ideal kibble for an entire installment of Murphy’s Feud, but the second Halston episode, despite featuring the great Kelly Bishop as fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert, runs out of interest in less than 44 minutes. Take, for example, 1973’s Battle of Versailles, in which an all-star crew of French designers faced off against an American design dream team in a series of fashion shows to raise money for the restoration of the Palace of Versailles. Over five episodes, the series is littered with incidents that seem like they could be focal events if only Halston had focus, or structuring devices if only the show had structure. From there, it’s a predictable descent into corporate betrayals, personal betrayals and all imaginable forms of ’80s excess, including cocaine, promiscuous sex, cocaine, carousing at Studio 54, cocaine, egomaniacal temper tantrums and cocaine. Like a public speaker who slips down the steps while carrying his next lecture on notecards, leaving some cards out of order and others lost in the stairwell, Halston picks and chooses key moments in Roy Halston Frowick’s ( Ewan McGregor) journey from chapeau-loving Indiana child to the creator of such innovations as Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat ultrasuede every outfit Liza Minnelli (Krysta Rodriguez) ever wore and, of course, Halston-branded carpeting. The series traces - actually, it doesn’t trace anything. Minahan also serves as the series director.'Halston' Costume Designer on Finding the The series is Executive Produced by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Alexis Martin Woodall, Daniel Minahan, Ewan McGregor, Eric Kovtun, Sharr White, and Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler of Killer Films. The limited series Halston follows the legendary fashion designer (Ewan McGregor), as he leverages his single, invented name into a worldwide fashion empire that’s synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame, literally defining the era he lives in, 1970’s and ‘80’s New York - until a hostile takeover forces him to battle for control of his most precious asset… the name Halston itself. Read the synopsis for Halston, and check out the poster and images from the limited series below. The miniseries is also executive produced by American Horror Story and Hollywood creator Ryan Murphy. Halson is directed by Daniel Minahan, who directed Deadwood: The Movie, and has worked on such shows as American Crime Story, Game of Thrones, and Six Feet Under.
Halston is based on the book “Simply Halston” by Steven Gaines, and is written by playwright Sharr White. RELATED: First Look at Ryan Murphy’s Netflix Series 'Halston' Reveals Ewan McGregor as Famous Designer
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