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Sep 2023
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From the Moulin Rouge to Elvis: Costumin...

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Costume and production designer Catherine Martin takes us behind the seams of her and her team's work on the 2022 Elvis biopic, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Austin Butler.

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