2004-06-20

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2004-06-20 12:46 am
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Costumes

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MONTAGE (ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE): GLITTER KIDS – 1972

... It appears today's youngsters have fashioned a whole new bent on the so-called sexual liberation of the flower-power set.

Costume designer Sandy Powell was a teenager in London in 1974 and made a lot of her own clothes, a look she gave the kids in the film, glamming their regular clothes up on a budget. "It was a homemade look, which I incorporated into my designs for the film. A lot of people criticized it, saying it wasn't really like that. But I thought, 'Well maybe it wasn't in your world, but it was in mine.' "