The Deeper Meaning Behind ‘West Side Story’’s Dazzling Costumes

which won him his first Tony after six nominations and attracted Spielberg’s attention as he geared up to produceCostume sketch of Tony, played by Ansel Elgort.Though Tazewell had already made forays into film, working on Spike Lee’s 2005 TV moviesigning on to a production of’s scale was daunting. “A Broadway show is also a great challenge, but this just amped it up because of the size of the ensemble overall,” he says.

For one thing, he considered the motivations behind each gang. “Many of the Jets were from broken homes and struggling and seeing their neighborhood destroyed,” says Tazewell. “Then, the Latinx immigrant communities were coming to New York with the hopes of bettering themselves—they’re more aspirational.

Paloma Garcia-Lee as Graziella, Mike Faist as Riff, David Alvarez as Bernardo, and Ariana DeBose as Anita inAs well as thinking about what his many hundreds of costumes would look like during some of the movie’s most complex sequences, Tazewell also made sure to keep the quieter, more character-driven moments at front of mind, particularly when it came to the wardrobe forin the leading role of Maria. “There’s a visceral feeling that you get when designing musicals,” he explains.

as Anita. “As a designer, it’s so exciting to work with a performer that is as in control of her movement as Ariana is,” says Tazewell. “I just wanted to engineer a dress to move in a way that would be an extension of everything she was doing. For somebody like Anita inthat yellow dress [in “America”] is a kind of energetic explosion of who her character is, an expression of the joy of being in America, and also how she pulls the rest of the community into that joy.

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