These are the incredible details to look out for in the biopic’s 9,000 costumes.
Returning from the set, Presley rips off his jacket, visibly bothered by the costume’s inauthenticity – and, all-importantly, how difficult it was to move in it. “I can’t sing if I can’t dance,” he declares.
As Martin explains, perhaps the most remarkable element of the Elvis look – the billowing trousers, dainty lace shirts , dandified neckerchiefs, drooping eyeliner – was that it was completely self-invented. “I think one of the things the Graceland archive allowed me to see was a world that formed Elvis,” says Martin. “Both his mother and father were products of the Depression, and his father kept every single receipt and every single check that ended up back at the bank.
a curse. There are so many fan photos and ‘Super 8’ movies that people shot at the time, along with the most well-known images. Even though hundreds of people spent days, weeks and months looking for images, every day someone would send me something new. It was overwhelming.
“The oversized look is something that was very fashionable in the ’50s, and Baz really wanted to be true to that boxy nature, but find a way to communicate a sense of the body under the fabric, so that the kinetic movement of the cloth would echo the movement of the body underneath. So there was a really deliberate exploration to find something that allowed for those things, and it came from real research and real clothes that Elvis had in his closet.
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