When Liza Bracey began her journey as costume designer on upcoming miniseries Pistol, she immersed herself in hours of original film footage of the Sex Pistols in all their confrontational creativity. It was an iconoclastic onslaught of the history of punk: amazing, filthy, obscene and fabulously compelling.
Bracey was on a clear mission to render the costumes for this project as authentically as possible, which transpired to be a complex undertaking. Her team set out to painstakingly match originals from the 1970s era, which Bracey says was “harder than designing from scratch”, although she did have a fantastic buyer who unearthed lots of vintage finds. It was a mammoth task, but an exciting
