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LAYING CLAIM TO the visual hallmarks of the times isn’t confined to helming a fashion empire, calling the shots on a nebulous singular vision and steeping it all in seriousness. Today, creating a place in the collective consciousness plays out on more than one (excuse the pun) stage. For the multi-award-winning costume designer of the multi-award-winning musical Hamilton , Paul Tazewell, it is “mind-blowing” that the show, six years after its debut, will make its way around the world, and to somewhere like Australia. “And it always has been, from the very beginning when we were on Broadway,” he says over the phone. “It latched on culturally and it’s just grown monumentally since. It’s so rare to be involved with a musical, or any piece of art that really does that; captures the zeitgeist and expands.”
He’s just wrapped a Zoom fitting with tailors and drapers in Australia who are working on the costumes before the production
