Film & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsEwan McGregor is starring in a series about influential designer HalstonThe miniseries, Simply Halston, will dramatise the life of the designerShareLink copied ✔️January 6, 2019January 6, 2019TextThom Waite Ewan McGregor – of Trainspotting fame – will take the leading role in a new biographical miniseries about one of the most influential designers of the 70s and 80s, Halston. The limited series, titled Simply Halston, doesn’t have a release date or even a network attached yet, but will be directed by Dan Minahan (who directed several episodes of American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace). It will also be written by Sharr White, of The Affair, and executive produced by McGregor himself. Just judging from the subject matter, Simply Halston won’t be a boring or slow affair, either. Halston – when he wasn’t designing hats for Jackie Kennedy or competing in the infamous “Battle of Versailles” fashion show – was hanging out at Studio 54, New York’s haven for hedonism, casual sex, and a lot of cocaine that peaked in the 70s. The series will also, presumably, chart the designer’s expansion throughout the 80s, the eventual loss of the rights to his own name, and his 1990 death, a result of Aids-based complications. So, a release date would be nice, please? Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREGetting to the bottom of the Heated Rivalry discourseMarty Supreme and the cost of ‘dreaming big’Ben Whishaw on the power of Peter Hujar’s photography: ‘It feels alive’Atropia: An absurdist love story set in a mock Iraqi military villageMeet the new generation of British actors reshaping Hollywood Sentimental Value is a raw study of generational traumaJosh Safdie on Marty Supreme: ‘One dream has to end for another to begin’Animalia: An eerie feminist sci-fi about aliens invading MoroccoThe 20 best films of 2025, rankedWhy Kahlil Joseph’s debut feature film is a must-seeJay Kelly is Noah Baumbach’s surreal, star-studded take on fameWatch: Owen Cooper on Adolescence, Jake Gyllenhaal and Wuthering Heights