6/29/2023 0 Comments Halston episodes![]() Per Peretti, this incident led to her leaving New York shortly after. In the basement of Studio 54, the pair had a confrontation after not speaking since the fire incident in which she said to him, "I am not going to be thrown out of a basement by a f****t queen like you! You're nothing but a no-culture cheap fa****t dressmaker!" He replied, "and you're nothing but a low-class cheap jewelry designer," to which she responded by pouring a bottle of vodka onto his shoes and throwing it on the floor. Per Colacello, however, the most dramatic moment in their fallout came three months later. "I said to him, 'Your friendship means more to me than this f****** coat,' and then I threw it in the fire," Peretti said herself about the event in a Vanity Fair interview. She had a fight with Halston one night and threw the sable coat Halston gave her for Christmas into the fireplace. Per Warhol's Exposures book, however, there was a much more dramatic incident that broke the pair's friendship up.ĭescribing a night at Halston's house, Warhol writes, "The only one that's not there now is Elsa Peretti. ![]() Halston shows the two creative powerhouses slowly falling out as Peretti begins to find success for herself as a jewellery designer for Tiffanys. ![]() How Halston and Elsa Peretti fell outĮlsa Peretti fell out with Halston when she threw the coat he bought her into the fire. Per Colacello, however, Hugo was not acting alone, and told him he used to do these things because the famously manipulative Warhol paid him to embarrass his supposed friend. In Interview magazine scribe Bob Colacello's autobiography Holy Terror, he writes how Hugo would embarrass Halston by appearing at a party in nothing but a jockstrap or a Halston dress. One of the troubles that Hugo and Halston had was their difference in class, with the latter used to spending time among New York's most rarefied people and the former more at home with the cities' hustlers. Rather than being a tribute to the French novelist behind Les Miserables, it is instead a reference to his "huge-o" penis, which was also the subject of a number of Warhol's sauciest photos and screenprints. What it does not mention, however, is how he got his name. The show details the tumultuous relationship between Halston and his Venezuelan sex worker-turned-window dresser partner Victor Hugo. How Victor Hugo became Victor HugoĪndy Warhol with Victor Hugo, circa 1975. Among the highlights of the night, meanwhile, was when Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell, dressed in an outfit made for Liza Minelli, saw his feather boa catch fire, with partygoers having to throw drinks on him to put it out.Įveryone who attended was sworn to secrecy, though one columnist did report that the assorted guests took Quaaludes, while one of Halston's guest bedrooms hosted an orgy. Per Simply Halston, the book the Netflix show is based on, this drag party saw Halston welcome guests in a jersey blouse and heels, while Andy Warhol came as Dolly Parton with a huge wig and fake breasts. Though we do get glimpses of legendary real-life moments like Bianca Jagger arriving on a horse and someone dying in the air vents, we do not get any glimpse of Halston's top-secret drag party. Halston spends surprisingly little of its five episodes dedicated to Studio 54, New York's most legendary disco-era nightclub. With the designer making his way through a daily diet of cocaine and joints, he wore glasses due to being paranoid over how stoned he looked. On the surface, this may seem like a typical cool affectation of the 1970s and 1980s, but per his biographer Steven Gaines, it had an ulterior motive. Later in life, sunglasses became a regular feature of Halston's wardrobe, with the designer snapped wearing them even in dark rooms at night. ![]() Per André Leon Talley's autobiography, instead of serving dessert at his dinner parties, he would serve large amounts of cocaine-served from a special bowl designed by Elsa Perretti, of course. The real Halston was reportedly pretty ostentatious about his drug habit. Halston on Netflix does give us some pretty lurid details of the designer's cocaine use, most notably in a scene in which his phone stops working because of the amount of the drug dropped into it from his nostrils. Halston (far right) with Liza Minnelli, Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger. ![]()
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