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Halston, a Ryan Murphy series tracing the pioneering designer's dizzying rise and tragic fall. Opening in Bergdorf Goodman's hat shop in 1961, the series follows Halston through formative professional experiences like the release of his breakthrough Ultrasuede shirtdress, the sensation he caused at the 1973 Battles of Versailles, and the expansion of his bespoke business into a multimillion dollar retail empire. Underscoring Halston's achievements was his hard-partying lifestyle at New York's storied Studio 54, where a combination of drugs, sex, and false friends left him increasingly volatil...

Halston: standout locations from the Netflix limited series Halston: standout locations from the Netflix limited series As Netflix’s  Halston arrives on the small screen – starring Ewan McGregor in the lead role as famed American fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick – we turn our attention to the standout locations of the limited series, from glass-fronted New York skyscrapers to resplendent French royal residencies Image courtesy of Netflix In the opening frames of the trailer for Netflix’s Halston – the hotly-anticipated limited Ryan Murphy series released on 14 May 2021 �...

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.”...

The Summerfield fire service led by John Marriott STOCKINGS and suspenders Christmas parties, an in-house dance band, free haircuts and curries on the canteen menu, life wasn’t too bad for those working at a top secret government establishment just outside Kidderminster in the 1950s. In fact, Summerfield Research Station was something of a law unto itself. It had its own police force and fire brigade and even its own club tie. Santa’s little helpers at a Summerfield Christmas party Quite a package, as befitted a facility at the cutting edge of the country’s answer to the Cold War ...

One of the first signs that the coronavirus would present radical challenges for the fashion world was the cancelation last spring of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala, the annual exhibition and accompanying party that has become the industry’s biggest night. Its red carpet merges designer prowess with entertainment industry star power. And the exhibitions themselves can set off trends that reverberate through the industry for years. The 2019 Camp exhibition, for example, helped usher in an exuberant, free-for-all era of celebrity dressing that quickly trickled down ...