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Where would one even begin sourcing costumes for a movie about Gucci, the century-old brand that’s transcended fashion industry fame to become a pop culture behemoth? That question was posed to legendary director Sir Ridley Scott and costume designer Janty Yates when the two began working together on the upcoming film, House of Gucci.
Yates and Scott’s professional relationship began with 2000’s , which earned Yates an Academy Award for Costume Design, and their resulting portfolio of blockbuster collaborations speaks to an enduring creative partnership. Films such as and showed Yates’s ability to channel various different time periods, but embodying the excess of 1980s Italian fashion for presented a new, unprecedented challenge for the designer – especially when the film was unexpectedly green-lit after a
