Halston was flirting

@@websurfin2010 Hater!

He’s SO nice. I met him at a party!

That was my thought exactly!! I initially thought maybe Armie Hammer would have been a better fit, simply for resemblance but McGregor nailed it for sure!

@@moonhaze8332 Nobody cares what you think , you are a Nobody

I'm here because I love the 70's and am old enough to have been there.

I'm here after Netflix too.. Did you see here how the interviewer asked him about jeans.... My heart skipped a beat. Remember the jeans situation and how he loathed Calvin Klein and his success with jeans. How he thought designer jeans was so tasteless. And his refusal to go into jeans is what began the final downward turn for Halston, the man and the brand.

Me! I must admit I never heard of Halston (shame on me).

me !!

I loved it❤

Brilliant insight, you're so right!

It's so sexyyyyy

You put it into words....

Halston was so sensual in the way he looked at & talked to people😂😍

Wow! You remember watching this(I guess only once) from way back then?

Good song... but so bitchy Billy! Harsh words about Bianca- I was nine years old I thought that whole album was so cool I would sing into my hairbrush. And Blondie Parallel Lines album.

@@animalsareaware9323 Omg, I had Blondie’s Parallel Lines...dawn of a new age

@@animalsareaware9323 you were ONE cool kid!!

The shaaaaaade

I wasn’t allowed to wear them much in the country - only to one newspaper job. I am allowed white denim and khaki otherwise.

Not really what he said.

@@megalodontheestallion5241 Actually, not shady at all. His response was "Oh sure. I love jeans. All kinds of jeans." Then when pressed further, by Mike Douglas who clearly is the one that isn't a fan of jeans, with the question, "But, where... should they be worn?" He responded with several examples, "I think for the younger public, and I think for country life and I think for beach life and that sort of thing and I think they're sexy and they work for mostly everybody, especially young people. Zero shade there.

Jordashe , Viddale Sassoon, Sergio Valentay became the designer jeans 👖 of the 1970’s , they advertised on T.V. in N.Y.C. all the time 🤔

Maybe a mid western thing?

Funny, I heard the name Halston for the first time in the song *He's the greatest dancer* from Sister Sledge. He was a good looking, classy and elegant man!

Hmmm interesting Maybe that’s who inspired his affect- maybe from Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn movies

I totally agree!!! He was a visionary.

Fabulous

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Well consider the times..

lol hes still wearing over 70

Omg! His performance is SPOT ON!!

Ewan really slowed down Haltons speech though split wasn't 100% spot on, which made him seem even more narcissistic

Meanwhile I'm here on 2021 thinking he looks stupid in that boxy long blazer.

and her fashions blows Halston's out of the water. Yeah I get it was her fall collection but she uses color & tailoring in a brave & exciting way here while Halston's are basic, look like curtains and wtf was that dreadful black top about?

She sure does look like her

Yes, if they ever make a movie/mini series on Donna Karan, Leelee would be a shoe-in to play her! She is so lovely and charming here, and it's so great to see her before she started her own wildly successful label. People forget how revolutionary and inspirational that was in the mid 80's. (And I want the male version of that brown suede jacket now in 2021! :P )

Yep

Sorry for the sound problem at the beginning!

We agree, the Netflix series was trash (though the sets and costumes were marvelous.)

@beverly lipscomb, front row, I read the book "Simply Halston", that the Netflix show was based on, and have at least 4 other books about Halston ( I am a big fan), this was a fairly accurate picture of Halston, although the book "Simply Halston was very gossipy, Ryan Murphy, did capture Halston, he was ego driven, catty, haughty, arrogant, demanding, at times insecure, genius at creating a "new" way for women to look and dress, he definitely captured that "jet set" lifestyle that he singlehandedly help create. During those early years,as indicated in the show and detailed in the book, Halston had a great work ethic, and that continued until the nightlife called him, studio 54, coke, Victor Hugo ,fame, success, all formed a perfect storm, that's when hell broke loose, and his personal and business life too. Although the show explored his "relationship" with Victor Hugo, it didn't mention, how Andy Warhol, played a big part in that area too ( messy w queens, lol), Although they maintained a professional relationship, Andy Warhol was completely smitten with Halston,( Warhol has said about Halston how tall and handsome he was) and behind Halston's back Andy Warhol carried on with Victor Hugo encouraging his bad behavior, in the one scene in the show, where Halston is throwing one of his parties, and he goes upstairs, and watches as Victor Hugo is engaged in an orgy with other men and you see someone in the background filming the scene, that someone was Andy Warhol ( this was how it was stated in the book "Simply Halston") I'm surprised that neither Andy Warhol or Biannca Jagger were featured or mentioned in the show, as they both were a part of Halstons life, or even Liz Taylor. Nor did any mention of the Halstonettes, beyond the 2 actresses portraying Pat Cleveland and Karen Bjornson, who didn't say much if anything. But it did accurately detail Halstons relationship with Joe Eula and Elsa Perritti ( who loved and worshipped Halston until they fell out completely, in the book, it was a sable coat, halston had given to Elsa, not fox, that she had thrown in the fireplace at a party at Halston townhouse, not at Studio 54. I think I better stop, probably way too much information, ( as always from me, 😆)

@@TIGGYY1 You read 5 books about Halston! !! Good for you ( Lol) I knew and know people that were in the Halston universe! The fox coat ( yes, it was a Sable coat that Elsa threw in the fireplace) switch in the Netflix series was a sloppy mistake, one of many!!! The series is tired and not very well done.

@@TheBeverly7 hey Beverly, it's me the fashion nerd, ( I'm using another phone I have, lol) we chatted before about fashion, but the other 4 books I have about Halston were basically about his clothes, more picture books than anything else. But I am a big Halston fan, was and still is , always loved his personna, his clothes, etc, I don't know if people realize that he in fact was a pioneer when he stared his collaboration /partnership with JC Penny, he is probably rolling over in his grave, knowing that today it no big deal for a top designer to collaborate with other companies! In fact it's good for business. Lol

@@TIGGYY1 From one Halston fan to another, I feel your enthusiasm!!!!! Thank you

You can find Calvin Klein at Sears or K mart or Ross.

Oh please. PETA is a terrorists organization.

Donna Karan was young and obviously ambitious, Halston was the tragedy of the times and his own person demons

Halston’s merchandise also survived, his now vintage fashions are still available and very expensive. Celebrities are currently wearing them on the red carpet. Halston would have died in 1990 with or without his partying. The real shame was making the decision to sell his brand/name.

Both Halston and Donna Karen sold their lines. The fact that you are more familiar with the presence of DK today, has more to do with the current owners of their lines.

it was just badly transferred from VHS (or BETA) to digital. Someone didn’t know how to control their levels. The original recording didn’t clip, as audio engineers knew what they were doing with the analog gear of the day.

He liked the Disco

That's correct -- Donna Karan designed for Anne Klein (Klein had died a few years earlier.)

@@FrontRowVideo Ah, gotcha. Thank you.

He said in the end: "Donna Karen from Anne Klein" And she looked at him like: "wtf?!" Like, she is an independent designer with her own label at that point. Nothing to do with Anne Klein anymore. And yet, he slaps her with this stupid phrase. Like he never got prepared for the interview. Halston is asked about celebs, and she is asked about failures. Wow, definitely not gonna like him. But anyway thanks for the interview! It's priceless to see the history by one's owne eyes.

Basically unless you had a fabulous figure.

You have to understand that back in the late 70s people were just starting to wear jeans as an everyday staple. Before that, jeans were reserved for farm work, cleaning, anything you would do where you would get dirty. My grandmother was born in 1908, and she hated it when we started wearing jeans. She thought it was so uncouth...she told us we all looked like farmers.

@@TT-fl8jt Plus he grew up on a farm, so he probably associated jeans with his past - which he was basically running away from. But, yeah, you remember.

Reminds me of the time George W. Bush in an interview with Bill O'Reilly, called him "Factor".

What are you implying about Iowans that leads to your assignment of halston being “fake”

@@Adhdisthenewblack That Iowans don't speak with a fake European accent.

@@fareshajjar1208 What part of that affect do you think is European? Where in Europe? It's not an accent, it's an affect.

​@@fareshajjar1208 Ah, you mean he was code-switching. Everyone does it, even you. Like, you probably use a different tone of voice or fall into a different 'character' when you are with your home family than you do with your co-workers or golf buddies. That's not phony. That's survival. LOL. Halston decided who he needed to be in order to succeed in that industry in that world in that era. Good on him.

@@Adhdisthenewblack No I mean he was pretentious and inauthentic. He was ashamed of his origins. Perhaps it was the acres of cocaine he snorted or the venereal diseases he had. There was nothing noble or healthy about it. It's sad.