Costume designer Jeriana San Juan was Emmy-nominated for the series "Halston," and is no stranger to recreating iconic looks from the past. Previous works include "The Get Down" and "The Plot Against America." But Halston represented an added challenge because many of his clients are still alive and it was a time with already a lot of photographic registers. Jeriana had to resort to Vogue's archives, fashion books and private collections. The vintage costumes she found were usually very worn off, with stains, candle wax, and cigarette burns, a testament of how the designer was embedded in the American clothing culture. Also, she was afraid the more fluid fabrics were deformed and did not do justice to the fit of the original piece, which by the way was a signature complexity of Halston's creative process: he molded his designs using the very same fabric of the final piece, something that became completely unaffordable for the series' production to replicate. So, part of the dresses we see are replicas of the originals, others are new creations that try to be as close to the designers' style and spirit as possible.
Halston's favored models included Pat Cleveland, Karen Bjornson, Chris Royer, Alva Chinn and Pat Ast; this entourage of models were eventually dubbed "The Halstonettes" by fashion journalist André Leon Talley. The Halstonettes appeared together in editorials and appeared at many Halston-related events. The troupe often traveled with Halston, attended his galas, acted as his muses, and reflected ethnic diversity (Halston was one of the first major designers to hire models of different races to walk in his shows and appear in his ads).
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Halston is an American biographical drama television miniseries based on the life of designer Roy Halston Frowick, known mononymously as Halston, starring Ewan McGregor. Adapted from the 1991 book Simply Halston by Steven Gaines.