He's learning about his life influences, his cultural influences and his own process in inhabiting the character and learning his cadence and the way he stands.'Īs McGregor, who's also an executive producer on the series, recently explained Halston to The Hollywood Reporter, 'It's about a man, a creative person, who believes absolutely in what they are and who they are.' And then Ewan of course is exploring him on a different level as well. 'Because it's more than the documented fabulous entrances to Studio 54 moments,' San Juan explained, 'and there's a lot of parts about who he was as a person that I learned in my research of him.' She looked to Halston's influences as well as the man himself because 'I wanted to understand, really intimately, sort of the DNA of his creativity. In addition to immersing herself in all aspects of the clothes, she consumed everything she could about Halston's own inspirations, from the music he liked to the creative people he always surrounded himself with to the designers who inspired him in his formative years, learning sewing from his grandmother as a boy growing up in the Midwest and as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Each focused on different aspects of Halston's life in their respective research-and then joined forces to complete the character inside and out. So while a show's clothing and accessories always play a key supporting role, especially in a period piece, the fashion-centric Halston led to an especially symbiotic relationship between costume designer Jeriana San Juan and McGregor. Created by Sharr White and counting Ryan Murphyamong its executive producers, the five-episode drama tells the story of Halston's heady rise from boutique milliner who made the pillbox hat that Jacqueline Kennedy wore to her husband's inauguration in 1961 to creator of the go-to brand for New York's chicest women-and everyone who wanted to dress like them. Netflix's new limited series Halston stars Ewan McGregor as the designer, an exacting visionary who curated himself as carefully as any fall line.

That group included Halston himself-born Roy Halston Frowick in Des Moines, Iowa, but destined to be the toast of New York-and an inner circle populated by the likes of Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, Joel Schumacher and Andy Warhol. The designer's aesthetic ruled the disco-glam era, his name synonymous with an effortless style adopted by the decade's tastemakers who looked like they rolled out of bed ready to be photographed. Or at least wanted to look like you were wearing Halston. If you were at Studio 54 in the 1970s, you were probably wearing Halston.

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