Upcoming film explores how Memphis upbringing shaped king of rock’n’roll’s music and style
he hottest pop heart-throb wears sugar pink suits and lace blouses, and whips teenage crowds into delirium with his beestung pout and perfectly coiffed quiff. Forty-five years after his death, he is poised for a blockbuster summer. Step aside, Harry Styles – Elvis is back in the building.
“I try and make movies to deal with what’s going on now,” the director said at a screening hosted by GQ magazine in London this week. Luhrmann and his wife and collaborator, the costume designer Catherine Martin, have created a delicate, feminine on-screen portrait of the teenage Elvis. He wears lace blouses and carries his cassette tapes in a glossy leather manbag.
Luhrmann spoke at this week’s screening of his love for “the colour and the dazzle, but also the darkness” of popular culture, a perspective he shares with Prada, who fuses subcultural currents with high-gloss glamour on her catwalks. At the same event, Martin described costume design as “a process of supporting the storytelling and characterisation … in ballroom dancing they say that the woman is the flower and the man is the vase.
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