Daisy's Rockstar Transformation

Lead singer Daisy Jones (played by Riley Keough) has the astir drastic changes retired of each the characters successful the show, according to Denise. From being an chartless vocalist to reaching superstar status, her wardrobe adapts to the various milestones she experiences. But whether oregon not Daisy was going done highs oregon lows, the costume designer made definite the character's essence always shined through.

"Her roots are precise tiny and past she grows into this superstar," Denise explained. "She has the biggest transformation, but she's besides the 1 quality who ne'er truly cared what she wore oregon what anybody thinks."

Denise also wanted to bring the writer Taylor's imaginativeness to life, pointing retired that Daisy is wearing a man's formal garment and cowboy boots during her archetypal large time of recording. 

"That was successful the book," she said. "There were things I felt had to enactment true. The fans are expecting that, and we would beryllium ripping them disconnected if we didn't springiness that to them."

A Secret Nod to Elvis

There's nary denying euphony runs done Riley's veins. After all, she's the granddaughter of stone legend, Elvis, and Priscilla Presley and the girl of musicians Lisa Marie and Danny Keough. And portion the costume decorator said that it indispensable "be pugnacious coming from that legacy," Riley was capable to separate her real-life inheritance from the character.

"Riley has her ain benignant and she's truly managed to beryllium her ain honest, authentic self," Denise shared. "And she brought that to the character. That's however Daisy is."

However, Denise did wage homage to Elvis successful a subtle but special mode for Riley.

"I met a woman, Love Melody, who designed apparel successful the '60s and made 2 jumpsuits for Elvis," Denise revealed. "And I had her marque 2 beauteous agelong coats for Riley—one successful a rust leather and different successful patchwork denim. I felt it was important to bring thing from that period."

She added, "And I deliberation Riley was touched."

The Influences

So, wherever precisely did Denise propulsion inspiration from? Well, for one, she watched a batch of '70s documentaries, including The Last Waltz.

"I told Josh Whitehouse, who plays Eddie, I was like, 'You are Robbie Robertson. You person to ticker this movie,'" she shared The Band's wide hailed performance documentary. "For Suki Waterhouse, who plays Karen, I channeled Patti Smith and Suzi Quatro. For Riley, we started retired with aboriginal Linda Ronstadt."

"The lone notation that I felt truly powerfully astir was Bruce Springsteen for Sam Claflin, who plays Billy Dunn," Denise explained. "I felt Billy was a quality that was going to enactment existent to his roots and didn't get caught up successful the fame. And I've ever felt that mode astir Springsteen, he's managed to transportation that bequest passim his full career."

She admitted she felt unspeakable for Sam, due to the fact that "while I was dressing everybody other successful these fabulous leather jackets and fur coats," she recalled, "He'd beryllium like, 'Another denim shirt, thanks.' He had a full rack of bluish denim and for his arc, helium went with achromatic denim."

The Power of Fashion

For Denise, the apparel didn't conscionable thrust the communicative but helped the actors get into character—physically and mentally.

"I retrieve aboriginal on, the guys weren't utilized to wearing tight, hip-hugger jeans and tiny, choky T-shirts," she recalled. "It felt precise awkward to them. But I would springiness them apparel to deterioration to signifier truthful they could commencement to consciousness it."

As she enactment it, "You don't privation it to look similar somebody's uncomfortable successful what they're wearing."

Denise explained that since the amusement spans from the '60s to the '90s, the manner changes acted arsenic a storytelling device.

"You have to usage the covering to spot the quality arc," she said. "We commencement disconnected successful Pittsburgh—it's precise dark, acold and blue-collar. And then, erstwhile the set goes to California, it's precise Kodachrome, lukewarm colors. So we played with that a lot."

The Show Must Go On

Sometimes, you person to rotation with the punches, adjacent if it hurts. Denise recalled feeling crushed erstwhile a glitzy, custom-made design didn't extremity up getting its moment successful the spotlight.

"I had seen Stevie Nicks wearing this white, diaphanous gown and I was like, we've got to bash that," the costume decorator recalled. "We painstakingly made this dress, it was truthful beautiful, and past we changeable successful the godforsaken and it was snowing."

She continued, "And there was a windstorm, truthful I had to screen up the formal with a fur coat."

However, putting unneurotic Daisy's finale outfit—a Halston pleated formal with golden macrame—was a dream. But determination had to beryllium adjustments made to that arsenic well.

"It's a magical piece, it was a caftan," Denise described. "And it was expensive. But I needed to chopped it down the mediate and marque a cape, truthful we had scissors successful the fitting and I was conscionable terrified I was gonna ruin it, but it was perfect."