September 2016
William Ivey Long’s Stunning Costume Designs from Nine, Hairspray, and More
The six-time Tony Award winner has worked on everything from the musical Chicago to next month’s TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.William Ivey Long, photographed by Jonathan Becker.
Courtesy of The William Ivey Long Studio.The sketch for Uma Thurman in the Producers movie, 2005.
By Andrew Schwartz, S.M.P.S.P./Courtesy of The William Ivey Long Studio.The finished costume for Uma Thurman in the Producers movie, 2005.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.The Rocky Horror Picture Show mood board.
Courtesy of The William Ivey Long Studio.Meryl Streep in a costume by Long in The Idiots Karamazov at Yale, circa 1974.
By Martha Swope/© The New York Public Library.Anita Morris in a Long-designed body stocking in Nine, on Broadway, 1982.
Courtesy of The William Ivey Long Studio.A sketch for the musical Hairspray.
By Paul Kolnik/Courtesy of The William Ivey Long Studio.Costumes for the musical Hairspray, with Marissa Jaret Winokur and Harvey Fierstein, 2002.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.Long’s Royal typewriter and Rolodex.
Photograph by Jonathan Becker.William Ivey Long, photographed in his New York studio, in front of his mood boards for the Rocky Horror Picture Show TV movie.
