The star, who was born into the Hollywood hubbub (her parents were actor Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli), has enjoyed a hard-earned prodigious career in musical theatre spanning more than seven decades. In Murphy’s rendering, American actor Krysta Rodriguez shines as the hair-flicking, high-kicking, EGOT-winning Minnelli. Halston was extremely showbiz, as were the ‘Halstonettes’ – a nocturnal collective of ultra-talented women (including Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, Elsa Peretti and Liza Minnelli) who were party pals at the height of the Studio 54 era.
With members of Halston’s family questioning the factual correctness of the show, we’ll stick to indisputable truths. That is most likely why Netflix’s Halston – a dazzling five-part biopic from Ryan Murphy, which tells the high-octane life story of Roy Halston Frowick (played by Ewan McGregor) – feels so necessary.
If Instagram is to be believed (don’t), everyone is going about their business in opera gloves and thong bikinis. Larger-than-life style is everywhere and nowhere in 2021. Elizabeth Taylor’s jewellery arsenal? For sure. Jayne Mansfield’s Pink Palace (complete with heart-shaped swimming pool)? That was showbiz.
‘Showbiz’ should be overtly decadent to the point of cliche – you must categorically not be able to look away. Showbiz style is the fashion world’s sickly dessert course – the one buried under a waterfall of toxic-hued sauces, which arrives embedded with sparklers after a procession to its own theme song, and has the whole restaurant craning their necks to see what on earth just passed by. Cascading ruffle gowns, acres of fringing and dinner-plate-sized sunglasses fire our most elementary fashion synapses.
We don’t use the word ‘showbiz’ enough any more when describing knockout style.
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