EWAN MCGREGOR TO LEAD MINI TV SERIES SIMPLY HALSTON ON FAMOUS AMERICAN CELEBRITY FASHION DESIGNER!

'SIMPLY HALSTON' SERIES

WITH EWAN MCGREGOR AS THE CELEBRITY FASHION DESIGNER

Legendary Television is producing

We have another new biopic after yesterday's on Out of Africa author! Deadline reports that Ewan McGregor will lead SIMPLY HALSTON mini TV series about the meteoric rise and fall of the first American celebrity fashion designer as he  develops a worldwide fashion empire that’s synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame, literally defining the era he lives in, 1970’s and ‘80’s New York, until a hostile takeover forces him to battle for control of his most precious asset… the name Halston itself.

HALSTON, working first as a milliner,  rose to fame after designing the pillbox hat Jacqueline Kennedy wore to her husband’s presidential inauguration in 1961. He then segued to women’s wear with designs that were deemed minimalist but sophisticated, glamorous but comfortable. His celebrity clients included Anjelica Huston, Lauren Bacall, Margaux

Sharr White is writing, Dan Minahan directing the new series

Hemingway, Elizabeth Taylor, Bianca Jagger and Liza Minnelli. Halston’s company went through various owners and was eventually acquired by Revlon, with Halston gradually losing control. He died in 1990 at the age of 57 from AIDS related complications.