In her closing words, Minnelli remembered Halston as “tender always, courageous always, challenging always, daring me to be better than I ever thought I could be. Onstage, Minnelli remembered her last meeting with her friend, which took place at an informal Thanksgiving get-together where she complained and he cheered her up. Though Halston and Minnelli were the most glamorous best friends of the ’70s, Rodriguez relished the scenes that took place behind closed doors-“in our homes, curled up on a couch, eating some food, almost like a slumber party.” Wherever Halston and Minnelli’s careers or romantic lives took them, the one consistent was that friendship-“curling up with that person and clinging to them through that whole journey.”Īfter Halston’s death, Minnelli cohosted a tribute to the designer at Lincoln Center, in 1992. “They sharpened each other as friends and collaborators, and ultimately were each other’s greatest love.” “I don’t think I ever really knew that everything she wore was Halston, all the costumes Halston is uncredited as a costumer for Cabaret because she called him and was like, ‘I hate all my costumes.’ And he redesigned the entire wardrobe for her,” said Rodriguez. Rodriguez said that she, McGregor, and Halston’s creators envisioned Halston and Minnelli’s friendship as the show’s “love story these were each other’s soulmates.” Though Rodriguez had been a lifelong Minnelli fan, she was surprised to learn how deep Minnelli and Halston’s friendship ran when doing her research. When we started rehearsing, that was already in his heart, and I could recognize that.” “He had a really special meeting and bond with Liza herself and brought that to our rehearsals. “He got to meet her and tell her that her best friend was in good hands,” McGregor’s costar Krysta Rodriguez, who plays Minnelli in the series, told Vanity Fair. “He put us on the map.”īefore Ewan McGregor began filming Netflix’s Halston limited series, he was able to get a private meeting with Minnelli-with the actor vowing to keep their conversation secret. “This is a great American who changed fashion,” she told the filmmaker. “Everybody I know loved him so much,” she said, urging the on-camera filmmaker to avoid “trashy” portrayals. When that interviewer tried to draw her into saying something salacious, she refused. Minnelli told the same filmmaker that Halston was her “protector.” And since the designer’s 1990 death, Minnelli has reciprocated for her late best friend-fiercely preserving his legacy and doing her best to separate his creative genius from the seedy Studio 54 narrative. He had gone to all that trouble and then left so that we could discover it ourselves.” We walked into the most beautiful apartment I had ever seen in my life. I came home, and Mark and I walked in the front door, and the whole place was candlelit,” Minnelli said, recalling her very own Halston Home Makeover. So Halston told Minnelli to go out of town and forget about it.
I trusted him.” When she bought her Manhattan apartment, she told the filmmaker that she was overwhelmed at the prospect of decorating such an expansive space. In the 2010 documentary Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston, Minnelli explained that Halston “was my big brother. Acknowledging the Halston design she was wearing, she told the New York Times, “It’s Halston vintage, 1975-and I think it is great to celebrate the first designer who put American fashion on the map.” Five years later, at the 1978 opening party for Halston’s Olympic Tower showroom, Minnelli strode down the runway performing “New York, New York” and handing a rose to Elizabeth Taylor as the grand finale.Įven 18 years after Halston’s death, when Halston’s brand was revived for a 2008 show in New York, Minnelli sat front row, cheered on the designs, and raved about her late friend to press. If he needed her to hop onstage and give his runway a little extra razzle-dazzle, she would do that too-memorably performing and choreographing an adaptation of “Bonjour Paris” for Halston’s “Battle of Versailles” fashion show in 1973, as depicted on the series. Halston dressed Minnelli for everything-whether it was her 1973 Oscar win for Cabaret (she wore a canary yellow gown), her films, or her stage shows, including Liza with a “Z.” (The creation of her red halter minidress is reimagined in episode one of Halston.) She, in turn, supported him both behind the scenes and in the front row at his fashion shows.
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