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Costume decorator Natasha Newman-Thomas offered behind-the-scenes details astir The Idol's risqué manner and however the apparel archer their ain stories.
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Behind the glitz and glamour of The Idol costumes lies an disfigured truth.
Sam Levinson's new HBO series shines a light on the sinister broadside of fame, arsenic it centers connected aspiring, troubled popular prima Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) and her analyzable narration with modern cult person Tedros (Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye).
To play up the dark, twisted phantasy of the show, costume designer Natasha Newman-Thomas revealed that the fashion is intentionally meant to beryllium a small scandalous.
"We wanted to bring a consciousness of acheronian and sleaziness," she exclusively told E! News. "You don't ever spot popular stars oregon the underbelly of the euphony satellite portrayed successful that way."
Take Jocelyn's risqué costumes, for example. Her apparel might show a lot of tegument but the world is that it's meant to distract from who she truly is.
"There's an innate enigma to anyone you idolize," Natasha pointed out. "You spot the façade and the persona, but there's a enigma to what goes connected down the scenes. It's meant for you to not spot however hard it is."
Moreover, she explained that Jocelyn's attention-grabbing wardrobe is expected to consciousness out-of-reach and impractical.
"If you're a popular prima connected that level," Natasha noted, "you person to deterioration apparel that are unattainable to support that phantasy status. We wanted to get the constituent crossed that she's not a mean person."
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And arsenic manner is simply a cardinal constituent to Jocelyn's persona, fans volition spot her benignant germinate passim the series, offering clues to her character's newfound consciousness of empowerment—even if it's only a beforehand since she is being manipulated by those successful her interior circle.
But, arsenic the costume decorator explained, Jocelyn doesn't precisely instrumentality complaint of her ain destiny successful the beginning. It's not until she realizes her imaginable that she projects that assurance done her clothes.
"There's decidedly a communicative arc to it that changes aft she meets Tedros," Natasha hinted. "We wanted to represent her translation done the apparel and sensibility toward harnessing power."
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As for what inspired Jocelyn's costumes and this make-believe illusion of her real-life issues? Well, Natasha turned to fashion greats similar the precocious Thierry Mugler and Jean Paul Gaultier.
"They each person accepted sensibilities but with their ain twist," she said, "and they don't truly travel trends, they acceptable trends. We were going for thing to make a caller benignant of timeless look, a caller iconic superstar."
With each the buzz ahead of the caller series, it's wide the costumes volition be ones to watch.
The Idol premieres June 4 connected HBO and volition watercourse connected Max.
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