Set to Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode, the trailer follows Ewan McGregor as the iconic gay fashion designer as he attends drug-fuelled parties, figures out his signature style and vows to “change the face of American fashion”.
The following line from the character sets the tone for the series: “I’ve been an outsider my whole life until one day I just stopped giving a flying fuck.” Roy Halston Frowick rose to international fame in the 1970s.
His influence and business strategies redefined American fashion. In 1990, he passed away at age 57 due to AIDS-related cancer.
The series will follow Halston as he “leverages his single, invented name into a worldwide fashion empire that’s synonymous with luxury, sex, status and fame, literally