The fashion designer who was known simply as Halston loved nothing better than to throw outrageously extravagant bashes for his famous friends. The fashion designer loved nothing better than to throw outrageously extravagant bashes for his famous friends. Roy Halston Frowick was once acclaimed as America's greatest fashion designer, specialising in minimalist designs in luxury fabrics and credited with dressing American women for a 'relaxed urban lifestyle'. Now, though, Halston is back in the spotlight he craved as Netflix releases a five-part drama series (Halston) starring Scottish actor Ewan McGregor as the troubled designer. Hailed as America's first internationally renowned fashion designer, his weakness for epic self-indulgence threatened to bring his respectability crashing down at any minute.

Source: The Nation May 15, 2021 00:03 UTC