The midwestern designer was already a household name by that point. It was Halston who hosted the infamously decadent white-themed Studio 54 party in honour of Jagger, the one where Minnelli and Jagger were snapped releasing white doves. Among them, Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Anjelica Huston, Cher and model Pat Cleveland. Soon enough, she was joining him at “101” – his 101 East 63rd Street home, which played clubhouse to the city’s creative elite – and Studio 54. "We got along instantly, and he became my fashion mate,” Minnelli recalls of that magnetic first encounter. In real life, Minnelli’s godmother, original multi-hyphenate Kay Thompson, introduced the star to the designer, setting up an appointment at his studio. “Ewan went through intense training to figure out how the draping process works, and it resulted in the best dress that I’ve ever seen on my body – and it just came out of a single bolt of fabric and a couple pins.” “Halston and Liza meet each other, and he just starts draping fabric on her body,” Rodriguez told Vogue, as she toasted the show’s virtual premiere from her New York home this week.
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Ewan McGregor plays the title role, flanked by ‘Halstonettes’ Krysta Rodriguez (as Liza Minnelli) and Rebecca Dayan (Elsa Peretti). Halston – a five-part Netflix biopic from Ryan Murphy – lands on 14 May, spilling the larger-than-life story of Roy Halston Frowick (known mononymously as ‘Halston’, the man who changed American fashion forever) onto our small screens.
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