‘Priscilla’ costume designer reveals movie tells how Elvis wanted ‘whore in bedroom and lady in the living room’
The ‘Priscilla’ costume designer says the movie tells the story of Elvis wanting a “whore in the bedroom” but a “lady in the living room”. Stacey Battat, 47, put together an array of more than 100 outfits for Cailee Spaeny, 26, who plays Elvis Presley’s wife Priscilla in Sofia Coppola’s critically-acclaimed biopic of the singer, and said the outfits reflected Elvis’ obsession with moulding her in his ideal image of how a wife should look. She told The Guardian: “Clothes are such an important part of storytelling. “Costume design has historically been underappreciated in Hollywood, connected to...