Victor halston1/2/2024 ![]() ![]() He went on to work at Givenchy and Yves St. In a tribute written by Austin’s sister after his death, Ed he became a designer in his own right, the only Black designer to have a couture business on Madison Avenue with his company Austin Zuur. Christmas Eve, thank you-out the door, no severance, nothing,” The conflict between them came to a head during the Christmas season of 1973, when Halston had Hugo redecorate a window Austin had designed. Halston’s previous boyfriend, Austin, was already doing that job. Their relationship took a back seat after Victor Hugo arrived (more on that) but Austin did become the manager of Halston’s boutique and dresser of its windows and before the company was sold, he was also an assistant designer and vice president. I still don’t know the reason for that, unless he was trying to protect his image.” He wouldn’t take me out to dinner publicly. “He kept me hidden away from his friends. At the time of their meeting, Austin was an assistant buyer in the menswear section of a department store (Macy’s? Gimbel’s?) According to Austin, who was interviewed for Gaines’ book, the pair had sex weekly for five or six years, but did not go out in public together. As in the encounter in the series, the designer had said his name was Eric.Įdward James Austin grew up in Newark, New Jersey and according to his sister attended the fashion college F.I.T. Only after they had slept together and Austin had visited Halston’s NYC apartment did friends tell him who Halston really was. The pair spoke to each other later that night, when Austin found the designer smoking under a lamppost. “I don’t accept drinks from strangers send a drink back from me to whoever sent it.” According to Gaines, they first met at a tea dance on Fire Island in 1964, Austin was talking to friends when the designer sent him a drink and Austin replied: In real life, their introduction was a bit different. We see Halston try to pick up Ed Austin in a (presumably gay) NYC bar and they end up sleeping together. Of course, as with all topics, some details have been changed for dramatic purposes-or left out entirely. (Watch for an Emmy nom!)ĭirector Daniel Minahan bought the story to the screen with producers Christine Vachon & Ryan Murphy “based on a true story” from Stephen Gaines‘ biography, Simply Haltson. It also goes into great detail about two of his lovers the kind, mild-mannered Ed Austin, played by Sullivan Jones and the volcanic, sex bomb Victor Hugo outrageously brought back to life by Gian Franco Rodriguez. A release date for Halston has not been announced.Ewan McGregor as Halston is streaming now on Netflix and depicts many real-life people in the designers life like legendary Liza Minelli, jewelry designer Elsa Piretti and set designer Joe Eula, among many others. ![]() See the teaser (including Rodriguez with the Minnelli pixie cut) from the show below. Filming for Halston began on February 18. Murphy is also producing The Prom movie adaptation and the A Chorus Line series for Netflix. McGregor was last seen on Broadway in The Real Thing in 2014, Rodriguez was in both productions of Spring Awakening on Broadway, the Tony-nominated Pittu was last seen in The Front Page and Jones just made his Broadway debut this past fall in Slave Play. In the series, Krysta Rodriguez will play Liza Minnelli, the cast also includes Rory Culkin as filmmaker Joel Schumacher, Rebecca Davan as jewelry designer Elsa Peretti, David Pittu as fashion illustrator Joe Eula, Sullivan Jones as retail buyer/Halston lover Ed Austin and Gianfranco Rodriguez as window dresser/Halston partner Victor Hugo. ![]() During his life, Halston was friends with a host of celebrities, who he would frequent Studio 54 with, including Liza Minnelli and Andy Warhol. Producer Ryan Murphy has released the first look at his upcoming Halston series on Netflix, starring Ewan McGregor as the famed fashion designer who designed for Jackie Kennedy and who then died in 1990 at the age of 57 of AIDS. ![]()
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