Costumes
Viva Elvis' costume designer, Stefano Canulli, drew much inspiration from the iconic Elvis fashion of the '50s and '60s and added Technicolor lines to highlight the human body. The wardrobe collection as a whole contains nearly 400 costumes and around 1,500 costume components. Part of this total comes from more than 450 pairs of shoes and 150 custom wigs. Cirque du Soleil, for the first time, utilized flocking to create some of the accessories, thus giving them a velvet appearance. Some of the several wigs used for the show are created using urethane foam, which gives them the appearance of Japanese manga.
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Famous quotes containing the word costumes:
“All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)