See how Catherine Martin crafted the ElvisMovie’s dazzling, Vegas-worthy wardrobe:
Baz Luhrmann’s riotous remixing of the life of the man considered the king of rock ’n’ roll, Austin Butler, assuming the role of Elvis Presley, is made to perform in a tuxedo with tails. He had, until then, been raising eyebrows with his onstage gyrations, flying in the face of 1950s social mores—so the new look was devised to make him seem more respectable.
In that moment, the film’s audience sees the monumental significance of clothing to the performer—an idea that costume and production designer Catherine Martin handled with the utmost care, having worked with the Elvis Presley estate and studied the holdings at Graceland, Presley’s Memphis, Tennessee home.
As Presley’s career evolved between the ’50s and the 1970s, so too did his style. There’s Rockabilly Elvis, a fresh-faced, blue-eyed teenager with a God-given pout that sent knees buckling. There’s Army Elvis, who cut a cool figure in his nationally issued uniform. There’s family-man Elvis, a squeaky-clean, Hollywood leading man dressed in Hawaiian shirts and slicked-back hair dyed dark as shoe polish. And then there’s the version most easily remembered : Vegas Elvis.
“It needed to be really clear to the audience that ’50s Elvis was a rebel. He was the punk of his generation—something shocking and new, a part of this youthquake that was happening—and his sexuality was part of that. It was all about how the clothes worked on his body and worked with his sensual movements.
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