Zac Posen on ‘The Outfit’ and His Desire to Do More Costume Design Work: ‘Maybe Using More of My Fantasy Sensibility’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Graham Moore was adamant about wanting to nail down the authenticity of what a tailoring shop looked like and what a cutter does in the process of making clothes for his new film “The Outfit.” He recruited fashion designer Zac Posen to take audiences inside the world of tailoring.
Says Posen, “He was interested in close-ups of the texture of clothing material, the dust when you cut, or how threads rapidly fly up.”Mark Rylance stars as Leonard, a master ex-Savile Row tailor, who winds up in post-WW II Chicago where he stitches together suits, while the local mob uses his store as a front.To build Leonard’s costumes, the filmmakers found the perfect collaborator in Savile Row tailor Huntsman & Son who custom-made the shirts and suits in the film.
During that process, the pandemic threw a wrench in the works leaving Posen to hire a co-costume designer. “We wanted someone to share in the process, somebody that had experience in London because I wasn’t there to implement things,” he said.
Sophie O’Neill proved to be an ideal collaborator, working to age the costumes to show wear and tear.With O’Neill on board, Posen had another idea, “What if Mark could job-shadow at Hunstman?
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