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In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
a brochure for a 1968 exhibition of artist and noted Halston associateAndy Warhol.
Success is a cruel mistress.
By this point in the series, the Halston the public knows is in full display.
Drugs and dancing and disco are everywhere.
A woman tries to sneak in through an air vent and suffocates.
No one hears her screams, in part because Liza Minnelli has just passed out on the dance floor.
Off-camera, things are not as shiny.
Halstons drug habit continues to toxify his relationships and his designs.
He seems to have lost some mojo with his dresses.
Hes convinced his telephone is bugged after he places a late-night, and highly inebriated, call to Liza.
And he becomes increasingly convinced that everyone is going to leave him.
Liza begs him to go to rehab with her and he refuses out of fear.
Joe says hes designing the costumes for a disco musical calledGot Tu Go Discoand Halston mocks him.
Victor has been diagnosed with HIV.
And then theres the biggest loss of all: Halstons mother dies.
No one speaks to him at the funeral and he cries over her coffin.
But David does have another idea: Halston could become the exclusive, in-house designer for JCPenney.
He promises to be there with him to hold his hand the entire way.
Except he doesnt get that chance.
David had been trying to take Norton Simon private and was outbid by one dollar at the last minute.
The episode ends with an homage to the scenes after Halstons Bergdorf bomb and Versailles spectacle.
But it was a young man in black tie.
Halston was right aboutGot Tu Go Disco.
It closed afterfive nights.
Elsas wardrobe increasingly includes a red dress or scarf, and Sassys giant drug-mule purse is red patent leather.
Elsa is growing more powerful, and so is Halstons drug habit.
