Academy Award-winning costume designer Tim Chappel can’t believe it’s been 30 years since he was approached to work on a low-budget movie, oddly titled The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert.
The humble and fun-loving designer says it was the creative project that changed his life forever.
“It certainly did,” Tim, 56, says, recalling the first time he clambered aboard the iconic Priscilla bus in what would be the ride of his life. “I was only 23 at the time. I went from being a bartender to an Oscar winner in a matter of weeks.”
‘I went from being a bartender to an Oscar winner in weeks’
Indeed, not only did this little Australian film clean up at the Oscars in 1995, it also garnered Tim a
