'The Sympathizer' costume designer Danny Glicker worked closely with director Park Chan-wook to dress the cast, from Robert Downey Jr. to Hua Xuande, in the series.
who’s worked with some of the most acclaimed auteurs in the business today, he just keeps getting better acquainted with the decade’s sartorial landscape.
The latest project to pull him back in time is “The Sympathizer,” a screen adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. 'Sex and the City' Stylist Patricia Field to Style Rescue Dogs for a Runway Show Park’s visual approach was rooted in color, and Glicker worked closely with the director to establish a color key for the show. They grounded the story’s main character, The Captain, in the color blue. “It’s a classic color, it is not a controversial color. It is a color that does not have a specific political alliance,” says Glicker. “It is a color that stays consistent within a certain value throughout the whole piece. That blue became our white.
“Anyone who knows politics knows how much Southern California ended up shaping the country going into the ’80s,” says Glicker, adding that he channeled a sense of optimism when designing the costumes for the congressman persona. “I put him in these really bright, creamy tones, a lot of bold colors.
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