.HaileeSteinfeld reinvents America’s most famous female poet, Emily Dickinson, out Nov. 1.
“I wanted to show Emily as she was exploring the world, trying new colors and different silhouettes on herself, testing the limits of the world she inhabited,” says Dunn. The clothes as a whole are a mix of exacting and adventurous—keen to honor the strictures of the day, but daring in their understanding of how a poet’s attire can mimic the wheeling nature of her mind.
The series flips our ideas of period television inside out, pairing a modern vernacular with a soundtrack that features A$AP Rocky, Billie Eilish, and Ecca Vandal’s uncanny “Future Heroine.” It’s a smart homage to Dickinson herself, whose clipped lines and slant rhymes, scribbled on envelope backs and receipts, packed the sort of linguistic punches that quietly—secretly, really—reinvented the idea of what poetry might be.
Steinfeld, who made her big-screen debut in 19th-century clothing, laughs when she points out that the attire inearthy woolen coats. The poet’s wardrobe, in fact, offers up no small dose of glamour: Dickinson appears tattooed and corseted in chartreuse silk for a circus segment, and with crimson hands and a regal gown to play none other than Lady Macbeth in a homemade production.
But, most strikingly, in a midnight scene, Dickinson floats out of her house and toward Death’s carriage in a scarlet silk charmeuse gown, her lips so violently stained that they too appear bloody. “Who in their right mind would ever think that Emily would be in this gorgeous and extremely sexy red dress?” Dunn asks with a laugh. For Steinfeld, the dress was a tease throughout production: She’d see sketches and swatches but was still dazzled by the final reveal.
This is an Emily Dickinson we’ve never glimpsed in black-and-white photos or oil portraits. Forget the demure white dress that still stands on its mannequin in her bedroom—what the modern world wants is a Dickinson who, as her poetry exclaims, “sweeps with many-colored brooms/ And leaves the shreds behind.”
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