The show does not dwell on Halston’s physical decline, however it is much more interested in the designer during his most productive if self-destructive period. After licensing his name to J. C. Penney, in 1982, Halston lost control of his business and receded from the spotlight. The series, which is based on Steven Gaines’s 1991 biography of the designer, charts Halston’s dizzying rise-from a sad farm boy growing up gay in the Midwest to a Bergdorf Goodman milliner to an internationally beloved couturier-and eventual fall. All of this is scored not just to a driving disco beat but to the repetitive whoosh of cocaine vanishing up Halston’s nostrils quicker than the drug can be laid out in lines. What a rush! But how long can he keep it up? In a snappily edited montage, Halston arrives at Studio 54 with an entourage-including Liza Minnelli (Krysta Rodriguez) and the Italian jeweller Elsa Peretti (Rebecca Dayan)-to a cheering crowd of wannabes and paparazzi he hosts an orgy in his Upper East Side town house he holds a fashion show in a skyscraper overlooking midtown he impulse-buys a beachside compound in Montauk. It’s the late seventies, and Roy Halston Frowick is the most famous fashion designer in the United States, creating luxurious, clean-lined dresses, and hawking everything from perfume to luggage to carpeting. The penultimate episode of “Halston,” a five-part bio-pic series on Netflix, opens not with a bang but with a snort.
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