Riley Keough's Daisy Jones & The Six Costumes Have a Subtle Connection to Grandpa Elvis Presley
glamour.comDaisy Jones & The Six series, . It tells the story of a Fleetwood Mac-like band rising and falling, making up and breaking up, over the course of the 1970s, so of course the costumes are going to be gorgeous.
And Riley Keough, who plays lead singer Daisy, has a special connection to the story through her grandfather, Elvis Presley.“We didn't talk about her family that much or her lineage—I was very respectful of her private life,” the series's costume designer, Denise Wingate, told in a recent interview. “But I did find this woman named Love Melody who made rock and roll clothes in the '70s.
She actually made two jumpsuits for Elvis Presley, so I had her make two beautiful, long coats for the show. One is a denim leather patchwork long coat and the other a beautiful rust leather.
She made those. I thought it was nice to bring that back in the fold and have a little bit of that history.”Got that? Two long coats: denim and leather patchwork, and rust leather.
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