Studio head Jack Warner hated the movie and would only provide limited distribution. Off-work, they wore caps, which were more working class than fedoras. The men, Beatty and Gene Hackman, wore vested suits to do their bank robbing, with fedora hats. The demand for berets became huge after the movie became popular. Theadora liked the look, taking off from a photo of Bonnie Parker wearing a beret-looking hat, so she designed several of Faye’s outfits topped with a beret. Courtesy of Photofestīut it was Faye’s berets that launched a fashion trend. Dunaway’s ivory-colored, fagotted seam sweater under her black wool suit was also striking.
The look of smart skirts, paired with a form fitting sweaters, Faye’s braless dressing, and a saucy beret cut an unforgettable image. Van Runkle designed dresses and skirts for Dunaway, but they were cut on the bias and swung. She talked to Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty, and they wanted to put Fay Dunaway in dresses like Bonnie appeared in the photos. Van Runkle started by reading the script and looking at old photos of Bonnie and Clyde, gangsters, and period clothes. The job for any costume designer is to help develop character and advance the plot.
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But this was her first full movie assignment, and it turned into a bumpy road for her. She illustrated beautiful costume sketches that impressed producer Warren Beatty and director Arthur Penn, and she was tall and attractive and could wear the same clothes she designed for Faye Dunaway. Magnin stores in Los Angeles, and had been a sketch artist for costume designer Dorothy Jeakins.
Van Runkle was self-taught as a costume designer. Theadora Van Runkle designed the costumes for Bonnie and Clyde.
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This heralded the collapse of the Production Code in favor of the current movie rating system.īoth movies were very influential on, and influenced by, street fashion. Blow-up not having passed the still present MPAA Production Code’s censors, MGM released it under the newly formed Premiere Productions. Blow-up was the first general distribution movie to show full-frontal nudity. Bonnie and Clyde was the first to show the instant consequence of a man being shot, with its later footage (SPOILER), influenced by Akira Kurasawa’s Seven Samurai and the Kennedy assassination’s Zapruder film of the slow-motion, multiple machine-gunning of Bonnie and Clyde. Hollywood’s New Wave was born in the late 1960s with movies like Bonnie and Clyde and Blow-up. Among the many movies, Bonnie and Clydealong with Blow-up will be shown on July 9. The series is inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion. Each will be moderated by TCM with guests from the fashion industry, costume designers, academics or historians. Turner Classic Movies is presenting FOLLOW THE THREAD, a series of films broadcast on TCM cable on Saturdays in June and July.
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