On May 14, 2021 it went out on Netflix a new series based on the Halston story. Directed by Ryan Murphy and played by the actor Ewan McGregor, says the success and the next decline of the designer who entered the firmament of fashion between the 60s and 70s.
Who is Halston
To the registry office Roy Halston Frowick, but known simply as Halston, was born in Des Moines, capital of the State of Iowa, in United States, on April 23 1932. Already as a child, Halston shows interest in embroidery who learns under the guidance of her grandmother and then tries her hand at making accessories and clothes for her mother and sister.
After diploma at Benjamin Bosse High School, in 1950, begins attending Indiana University before finding his own way to School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Who is Halston: debut and success thanks to Jackie Kennedy
In the early 1950s, Halston begins to make itself known thanks to the creation of its own line of women’s hats is in the 1957 opens his first shop in Chicago. It later becomes the chief milliner of the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman, in New York.
Real success for Halston though, it comes thanks to Jackie Kennedy.
In 1961, on the occasion of the inauguration of the presidency of the husband John F. Kennedy, the elegant first lady is shown wearing the famous “Pillbox”, the tambourine hat designed by Halston, who thanks to the consents received opens a boutique of women’s fashion and start a ready-to-wear line. Throughout his career, Halston has dressed up world-famous stars, also called le “Halsonettes”, among which we remember the famous singers Cher, Diana Ross, Liza Minnelli and the actress and former model Bianca Jagger, ex wife of Mick Jagger, frontman of the Rolling Stones.
Who is Halston: the years of decline and death
If the 70s are a real golden age for Halston, the same cannot be said for 80s period in which Halston lose the control of his fashion house a cause of different business decisions too much risky. From 1983 hence, the brand changes owner several times, passing from hand to hand to more or less known faces and companies.
In 1990 Halston fails prematurely at the age of 57 years old due to some complications related toAIDS.
After the owner’s death, several entrepreneurs tried to revive Halston. In 2006 takes over the Hilco Consumer Capital company, with Tamara Mellon, co-founder of Jimmy Choo, the stylist Rachel Zoe and the film producer Harvey Weinstein. In 2007 Marco Zanini of Versace was hired as lead designer, then moved on to Marios Schwab in 2009. In the same year, the actress Sarah Jessica Parker it is called by society as president is chief creative officer to supervise the Halston Heritage line, based on archived sketches of the late artist.
The “Sex and the City” star left the company in 2011 and with her also Schwab and Weinstein. In 2015 Hilco Consumer Capital sold the H by Halston and H alston lines to Xcel.