“He couldn’t take his eyes off her,” is how Forden describes the first time Maurizio Gucci sees future wife Patrizia Reggiani at a debutante party in 1970. Plus, the challenges of conceiving three decades’ worth of looks, and the audience response to those first ski chic photos.
Zoom gave Yates the opportunity to collaborate with “LG” (as she affectionately calls Lady Gaga) while they were in different countries.īelow, Yates discusses how she crafted the exclusive world of Gucci using a mix of custom builds, vintage (including archival Gucci pieces and Gaga’s personal collection), and costume house rentals. The prep process included multiple virtual fittings with stars like Gaga, Driver, Al Pacino, and Jared Leto. When the pandemic shut down the Last Duel set last spring, the designer used the lockdown period to get “a leg up” on the world of Gucci. “Matt Damon rings up Ridley out of the blue and says, ‘I've written a script, do you want to do it?’” Yates describes. Then The Last Duel came along, posing another delay. In fact, Yates received the House of Gucci script pre-COVID and got an invaluable start to her research when she visited the Gucci museum in Florence. It was Ridley Scott’s wife, Giannina Facio, who first brought the project to the filmmaker’s attention after Forden’s book was published in 2001, and it would take 20 years for it to come to fruition. “I went straight from The Last Duel on to Gucci,” Yates said when she jumped on the phone with the day after the Los Angeles House of Gucci premiere. The veteran director turned to Yates to capture the luxe look of this high-end cutthroat world.
Costume designer Janty Yates has worked with Ridley Scott on over a dozen movies and earned an Oscar in 2001 for their first collaboration, Gladiator. Telling the story of the real-life power grab at the heart of the glamorous dynasty, the murder of Maurizio Gucci (Driver) and the ex-wife (Lady Gaga) who was convicted of this crime-and earned the nicknames the “Joan Collins of Monte Napoleone” and the “Black Widow”- House of Gucci hits theaters this Thanksgiving.Īward season has been set alight by Lady Gaga’s commitment to her portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani-not to mention the drama she is serving on the red carpet-and the sartorial journey is equally mesmerizing. Ever since the first on-set photos of Lady Gaga and Adam Driver frolicking in Milan hit the Internet, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Sara Gay Forden’s gripping book of the same name became one of the buzziest movies of 2021.
Being dressed to kill takes on a new meaning in the hotly anticipated House of Gucci, which weaves a web of fashion, betrayal, and murder.
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