All of this is scored not just to a driving disco beat but to the repetitive whoosh of cocaine vanishing up Halston’s nostrils quicker than the drug can be laid out in lines. What a rush! But how long can he keep it up? In a snappily edited montage, Halston arrives at Studio 54 with an entourage-including Liza Minnelli (Krysta Rodriguez) and the Italian jeweller Elsa Peretti (Rebecca Dayan)-to a cheering crowd of wannabes and paparazzi he hosts an orgy in his Upper East Side town house he holds a fashion show in a skyscraper overlooking midtown he impulse-buys a beachside compound in Montauk. It’s the late seventies, and Roy Halston Frowick is the most famous fashion designer in the United States, creating luxurious, clean-lined dresses, and hawking everything from perfume to luggage to carpeting.
The penultimate episode of “Halston,” a five-part bio-pic series on Netflix, opens not with a bang but with a snort.
