When Elsa Peretti passed away in mid-March, the outpouring of the fashion world was immense. Though she had never met her, Rebecca Dayan felt the loss in a different, particular way. Dayan has spent the last year-plus immersing herself in the world of Peretti to portray her in the new Netflix series “Halston,” out today, with the hopes of meeting the legendary muse and jewelry designer once the series premiered.
“I did not know her as a woman at all until I started. I knew her work for Tiffany’s, but learning about her life was one of the most interesting things for me because she’s not talked about in that way. And it seems from what I gathered from who she was, that’s how she wanted it,” Dayan says. “She wanted to be known mostly for what she did creatively rather than her life.”Ewan McGregor as Halston and Rebecca Dayan as Elsa Peretti in “Halston.
The world of Halston was a shock to the system to return to after their COVID-19 shutdown, which put the project on pause for a good five months. “It’s early and late because when I was a kid I loved performing, and I would always put on little comedy shows and fashion shows. And I did theater and then I kind of went away from it until I was in my early 20s, when I got back to it,” she says.
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