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Dressing the high-society 'swans' in 'Feud' was an adventure in both authenticity and artistry

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Executive producer Ryan Murphy is known for creating vivid TV worlds where high drama feels completely normal.

Costume designer and producer Lou Eyrich has helped him bring these worlds alive, and their latest collaboration, “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans,” peeks under the fur coats and behind the giant sunglasses to see the complicated lives of the elite set in 1960s and 1970s New York.

It's the second installment in Murphy’s “Feud” series, and follows author Truman Capote from the 1960s through his death in 1984 as he charmed and befriended the upper ranks of Manhattan high society, including women like Babe Paley, C.Z. Guest and Lee Radziwill, whom he nicknamed “the swans.”

Tom Hollander plays Capote, cavorting on the Upper East Side with co-stars , Diane and Callista Flockhart. The show is based on the bestselling book “Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era,” by Laurence Leamer.

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