The Great Gatsby Impressive Prada Costumes

The Great Gatsby...

 ...starring the lovely Leonardo DiCaprio is jam packed with madness, obsession and tragedy. To be released this Thursday, and it was Catherine Martin and Miuccia Prada together who created the lavish 20s inspired costumes for the film which has already recieved hundreds of great reviews.

Although Catherine was never a huge fan of the novel, the director, Baz Luhrmann, worked his persuasive charm. When talking to VOGUE, Catherine said "I remembered Gatsby from being a teenager and not quite connecting with the story, but Baz was very persuasive, so I read the novel and - you know how one can rewrite history - I then became the greatest proponent of Gatsby ever. Much to Baz's irritation, because it was really his discovery and his insistence that made me read the book.

Catherine and Prada worked alongside the Brooks Brothers to create the costumes that the cast wear through out the film. The designer has long been fascinated by the book's time period, due to the history which took place around that time including the social revolution that materialised after the First World War. 

Although maintaining the genuineness of original Twenties clothing styles was important to both Martin and Luhrmann, the idea of trying something new and fresh to reconnect audiences with the story was also a main focus.

"Baz was describing to me about the modern music in this version of Gatsby and he said, 'We've got to get the audience to feel how it must have felt to hear jazz for the first time at a party,'" Catherine said. "You need to feel how scintillating, extraordinary, new and dynamic these things were; there needs to be a frisson of the new for people to actually understand what it was really like to be there in the Twenties."

This film is what definitely one not to be missed, even if it is just to look at the gorgeous costumes which so much hard work and thought have gone in to!