Two decades after Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” hit theaters for the first time, its story of a rookie music journalist traveling the nation with a band on the brink of stardom …
” hit theaters for the first time, its story of a rookie music journalist traveling the nation with a band on the brink of stardom remains timeless—as do the costumes, even with their ’70s flair.
Costume designer Betsy Heimann already had an impressive arsenal of credits behind her before the film’s debut in 2000, including “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction” and Crowe’s “Jerry Maguire”. However, the autobiographical nature of “Almost Famous,” which was based off of Crowe’s own adventures on tour with bands like Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers and The Eagles, allowed Heimann to, as she puts it, “keep it real.
She found a wealth of inspiration in Crowe’s own tour photographs, in addition to those of photographer Joel Bernstein from Neil Young’s “Time Fades Away” tour in 1973. Though Heimann handmade all of the staple pieces in the film, she trekked down the coast of California in search of vintage Levi’s 501s and 714s, and had a textile artist on-hand to make each item look like it was 30 years old.
“I made huge closets for all the actors and I would photograph them in every one of the outfits, and then I’d put them up on a board and Cameron and I would go through them,” Heimann tells The result was a series of outfits that have helped to make “Almost Famous” not only a time capsule of Crowe’s life in 1973, but also of fashion, even though the film was made nearly three decades later.
rch about this because PSA was no longer in existence when we made the film, and Cameron found out that there was an ex-flight attendant in San Diego and she still had her uniform. So there we went, off to San Diego, and collected this uniform. And she had pictures of her and her cohorts, living the life, flying PSA. When something is real in a film for me, like real research, like this stewardess, I gotta keep it real. It’s gotta be authentic, as authentic as I can be.
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