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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Roy Halston Frowick didn’t take well to being alone. When he left his childhood home in Indiana, far from the mythical coasts, he dropped two of his names like last season's castoffs, adopted a chic mononym, and headed straight for more densely populated pastures: first Chicago, then New York City. It was in Manhattan that he reinvented himself as a fashion phenom and Studio 54 fixture, surrounded by a rotating Lazy Susan of beautiful people, speaking in a clipped, affected accent that became his signature. H...

Halston with models in his designs. Photographed by Duane Michals, Vogue, December 1972 “Ewan McGregor is Halston” announces the trailer for the buzzy docuseries about the American design legend debuting this week. It’s a statement that will be put to the test over the course of the show’s five episodes as Halston (né Roy Halston Frowick) was the most elusive of men, despite his fame. The best description I’ve read of the designer comes from the pen of editor Patricia Bosworth, who found Halston’s “compelling presence” to be “openly sensual but at the same time remote.”...

ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA/NETFLIX Executive producer and director Daniel Minahan reveals every painstaking detail taken to ensure that the world of the iconic designer felt just right. When Ewan McGregor met Halston executive producer and director Daniel Minahan to discuss starring in the Netflix series, he was not familiar with the 1970s fashion revolutionary. "To find out that he was so massively famous in his time," says McGregor, "and I had never heard of him — that didn't make much sense to me.” McGregor was quickly brought up to speed, however, by Minahan, who had been trying to turn Hals...

This week, Jennifer Krasinski, editorial director of Artforum digital, introduces Jack Pierson’s “People’s Parties: Billy Sullivan / Marcelo Krasilcic” from 1994’s summer issue. Pierson’s Silver Jackie, 1991, is not only the subject of David Rimanelli’s essay “Stages of Grief,” which appears in this month’s issue, but is also featured on the cover. Once upon a time, before he was a celebrated artist, Jack Pierson was a wide-eyed newbie in New York with visions of the glitz the city would bequeath him. “ I would step out of the limo in Times Square, pausing to offer my a...

In the same spot he started selling hats to rich ladies 15 years ago. this is halston off the rack. the favorite item, an ultra suede sweater. that has broken all previous recordsed. my god, are you ever on time? >> for real extravagance, the ladies come to halston's own showroom on madison avenue, where super sales woman pat ast, will give them that special treatment. >> what about pat ast? somebody people have suggested by using her, you're putting down fashion a bit. >> well, if you think that patty is a putt down, but i don't think so. i take her very seriously. and i like to make her glam...