Who What Wear with Hillary Kerr: Priscilla Costume Designer Stacey Battat on Re-Creating Iconic Looks and Channeling ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s Fashion
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Stacey Battat is a costume designer and longtime collaborator of director Sofia Coppola, known for her work on films like The Bling Ring and The Beguiled. But most recently, Battat took on the huge undertaking of crafting the looks for A24’s newly released biographical drama, Priscilla. Based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir, Elvis and Me, Coppola’s Priscilla, which stars Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, depicts the couple's epic yet tumultuous relationship, this time from Priscilla’s perspective. From the late ’50s to the early ’70s, Battat had a ton of ground—and fashion eras—to cover when it came to costume design. She’s here to talk about how wardrobe choices impact character development, what type of research is involved in telling true stories, and why having a solid team is of the utmost importance.
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| 1:11.0 | Welcome to Who Up Where With Hillary Kerr, your direct line to the designer's stylist, beauty experts, editors, and taste makers |
| 1:30.0 | who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm your host, Hillary Kerr, and today, I'm chatting with Stacey Batot, a costume designer of Chrysilla, |
| 1:40.0 | A24's newly released biographical drama about the one and only Chrysilla Pressley. |
| 1:48.0 | The film's director, Sophia Coppola, and Stacey are long-time collaborators, and their shared filmography includes the bling ring, the baguille, and on the rocks. |
| 1:59.0 | However, Chrysilla is perhaps one of the most complex projects that Stacey has worked on from a costume perspective, |
| 2:06.0 | because, on top of Chrysilla and Elvis's personal style evolutions, the film's expansive timeline also covers multiple fashion eras from the 50s through the 70s. |
| 2:18.0 | She's here to break down how she thought through and created the looks, from replicating the iconic fashion moments we all know from photos, |
| 2:26.0 | to ideating a wardrobe for Chrysilla's quiet moments alone in Graceland. |
| 2:32.0 | It's all coming up on Who What Where. |
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