Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell talks how Bowie and Bolan inspired her to design the fabulous frocks in Todd Haynes’ 1998 cult classic.
caught wind of a possible glam rock film. She’d grown up in Brixton loving the scene, but wasn’t quite old enough to be fully part of it. Once Haynes hired her, Powell got to live out her childhood dreams by designing sparkling glam-rock“It came from everything I’d always wanted to do,” Powell recalls, speaking from London in the midst of designing the costumes for.
It’s wild. I was 37 when I worked on it, so I’d already been doing for about 12 years. Strangely, I was actually looking at some of the costumes the other day. Some of the costumes actually still exist. I was athaving a look because I’m having a retrospective exhibition next year in Atlanta, Georgia, and I’m trying to track everything down. And the reason they exist is because the costume house Angels, in London, made it possible for me to make them because I really had very little money.
Todd is one of those directors who is super prepared and does enormous amounts of research. Clothes weren’t actually described in the script — that doesn’t usually happen unless it’s a significant outfit that has to do something or say something. They’re rarely described by the writer. But the scenes are described, and the characters are described, and then Todd also had a lot of his own visual reference material and things to look at.
The year after the film came out you were nominated for the Oscar for Best Costume Design for this and for. So that was one each. And yes, you’re right, of course I’d have loved to have won for. I don’t know if I should talk about this, but both films were being promoted by Harvey Weinstein.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
See the cosmic ‘bones’ of a dead star, captured by NASAThe images, captured by two of NASA’s X-ray telescopes, will allow scientists to learn more about the life spans of stars and what happens after they die.
Read more »
Suspect in deadly Alabama home invasion, kidnapping captured after chase with shots fired, police sayJordan Cesar Hernandez, 35, was captured Sunday afternoon in Decatur. Authorities say he and a 36-year-old woman killed a man in Lawrence County and kidnapped his wife, who was later able to escape and seek help.
Read more »
Dragon Ball Super Reveals Perfect Combination: Captured & AbductedBandai has revealed the next Dragon Ball Super Card Game expansion. After some teases, the main website for the game has announced with a new banner that the title of this set is Zenkai Series – Perfect Combination.
Read more »
Flower vendor stabbed in frightening LA County attack caught on cameraA Los Angeles street vendor was stabbed in what appears to be a random attack that was captured on video.
Read more »
Flower vendor stabbed in frightening Hawthorne attack caught on cameraA Los Angeles street vendor was stabbed in what appears to be a random attack that was captured on video.
Read more »
Families of Israeli hostages travel to D.C. to plead for releaseAssembled outside the headquarters of the American Red Cross, the relatives held photos and invoked the names of their captured loved ones and pleaded for help.
Read more »