![]() ![]() The visionary costume designer takes us through his studio at an unprecedented reveal of his designs for the upcoming broadcast: Known for Broadway’s sex and glamour, Long latched onto the glam rock of the early ’70s-structured jackets, leather, studs, glitz, hot colors, platform shoes and mesh. “With Grease: Live, we homaged it, but this one, because it is so iconic, and we are paying tribute to 40 years of nonstop being shown … what do you do with that? You re-imagine it.” Still, he wasn’t afraid to experiment, especially with Laverne Cox in the lead role made famous by Tim Curry. “When one is working with a classic, you must always remember that the only reason you’re working on it is because the classic was a hit, a big hit-in fact, a classic,” says six-time Tony-winning costume designer (and 15-time nominee) Long. After 40 years of continual theatrical distribution, fans still flock to see (and call out to) the movie musical parody of science fiction and horror films. Frank-N-Furter’s castle and the Annual Transylvanian Convention. On October 20, Fox brings The Rocky Horror Picture Show to new life, decades after Brad and Janet first stumbled upon mad scientist Dr. (It was actually shot beginning in April of this year.) Her massive ‘do’ of dark wavy locks with gray streaks at the temples is straight out of “Bride of Frankenstein.Fresh off designing the magic changes and poodle skirts for Fox’s Grease: Live that aired in January, William Ivey Long took a jump to the left and a step to the right and (in record time) created the glam rock, rehabbed look for The Rocky Horror Picture Show reboot. Magenta gets the upstairs French maid regalia-a short black uniform and frilly white apron. You can’t go light on the eyeliner.Ĭolumbia and Magenta’s costumes combine great fantasy dressing. Another across-the-cast effect is heavy eye makeup. For the eye shadow, he mixes the base with Maybelline liquid and waterproof eyeliner, “because it won’t smear or drip.”Īll of the stars with major billing wear fishnet hose and high, high heels at some point in the film. To create his heavy-duty makeup, Dockery said he uses Ultra Fair base. The hardest elements to locate, said Dockery, are the large pearls and the platform shoes, but he’s always had good luck finding shoes at local thrift shops for about $2. Dockery is a “Rocky Horror” costume specialist, he has been playing the part of Dr. The ones available in the lingerie shops all have built-in cups that look deflated on a man. Frank in the Nuart’s cast advises men to have their corsets custom-made. Frank are a long cape, corset, bikini underwear, fishnet hose, platform shoes, large millimeter pearls (choker length), elbow-length gloves without the fingers and scads of eye shadow. The main ingredients in dressing as the flamboyant Dr. Rabid fans have had to do likewise, sewing their own with occasional trips to the secondhand shops to assemble the look. Only the clothing in the wedding scene and various undergarments were bought. “As I grow up I am a bit alarmed at what I spawned,” she said ruefully.īlane estimated she had 90% of the costumes for “Rocky Horror” custom-made. But more than 15 years later, she will take the blame. She insists on sharing her prescient design sense with street savvy-London designer Vivienne Westwood. The reason the costumes were a hit is we had picked up on something that had just begun.”īlane modestly declines the credit for launching the underwear-as-outerwear trend. “The look was showing up in Chelsea and Kings Road. ![]() “It was the beginning of glitter rock,” she said. Blane was in her early twenties when she created the look that would eventually spread to music videos and Melrose Avenue. The costumes the live cast wears at the Nuart bear a marked resemblance to clothing you see in the clubs around town-black corsets and bras worn without blouses, rhinestone encrusted bustiers, long frock coats and minuscule skirts. The fashion trends have caught up with Blane’s vision. You see people in the tube (subway) station that look far more bizarre and with less clothing.” “At the time they were quite anarchic from a costume point of view,” Blane said from London, where she recently mounted yet another stage production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” “To see the body so close and so rough was a terrific shock unless you were used to seeing strip shows.
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