The film’s costume designer, Mitchell Travers, on how he re-created Tammy Faye Bakker’s iconic look.
outfits of her 1980s heyday. “It became a really microscopic, intense study of one person’s closet, essentially,” he says. Here, Travers discusses collaborating with Chastain, trawling through flea markets in the Deep South, and embodying Tammy Faye to select just the right look.Mitchell Travers:
What was it about this project specifically, and [director] Michael Showalter and Jessica Chastain’s take on Tammy’s life story, that appealed to you? Because you’re dealing with a real person who was really heavily photographed, I felt a responsibility to get it right. So what I did was take every single photo I could find—magazines, album covers, stills from the show, personal photos, fan photos—and I organized this massive archive on her that I divided into groups of five.
, so sometimes we played with history a little bit, because we would think, How would Tammy have wanted to present herself in this situation? It’s like when you remember fun moments in your life, you probably think about the outfit you were wearing and feeling fantastic in it.
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