Contemporary Costume design is always a tricky future; We all have opinions about clothes we see regularly. But Emma Potter’s work on “Landman” Come with an even higher degree of difficulty: she has to recreate the appearance of a texaner who spends her days in oil fields.
There is a nice line between accuracy and caricature, but Potter’s clothes end up on the right. Sometimes to the actors’ possible dismay, because the co -creator Taylor Sheridan was stiff on the costumes being consistent with what the men on the note carry. Although it did not mean any respite from the sun in western Texas.
“It was actually a point of conversation with Taylor that everyone needs to feel what it would feel like to be there,” Potter told Indiewire. “So we basically did what guys out in the field would do. Like they had a straw hat and a thin long -sleeved shirt on them, but they are still out in the heat. They still have boots on them. They still have jeans on them. And the guys who played all our Roughnecks were the same. did not breathe. ”
However, the costumes and clothes served a very specific purpose: for men who spend their working days in the relentless sun, protection becomes of the utmost importance. “When I started digging around, you realize that they wear the pale colors because it protects them from the sun,” Potter said. “They don’t roll on the sleeves because they want the sleeves down as protection. It’s great to see how dressed up these people are still in this heat, but how to need it too. “
And as with all subcultures, nuances must be followed. And there is nothing more telling for a man in Texas than what brand and style of jeans he wears. For Billy Bob Thorntons Tommy, Sheridan had a directive: Levi’s 527S. “It was another thing where I was like, really?” said Potter. “And then I put them on him, and you say” Yes, these are perfect. “
Photo research, conversations with Sheridan and observations on the ground in Fort Worth built up a picture bank for Potter, but nothing could help with aging denim except time. Ask any costume designer and they will say the same thing: there is never enough time to age the garments.
“I had the biggest aging team at this show I’ve had,” Potter said. “When we started, I said, ‘Let’s go over to West Texas. Let’s take the samples on earth and the materials and then start preparing.’ We worked with things as early as eight weeks from the time we started filming and did it continuously throughout the show. Only these cement mixers and machines that run constantly all the time, and people who very sensitively paint all these little details. “
Fortunately, Ali Larters Angela served as an interruption from the wrinkled denim – for both Potter and the audience. Angela is a foreign texaner with a personality big as an oil field and is the kind of tough woman that Sheridan stands out to create. And dressing her was as fun as looking at her.
Finding Angela’s appearance took longer, partly because she has been referred to facetime performances for the first three sections. But when she became more defined, her appearance became easier to determine.
“She became a real person,” Potter said about reading the latter script. “And I had this moment when I talked to (Lakter) and realized, kind, yes, she is probably very fond of her clothes and her fashion and loves to shop. And we started digging around for vintage designer clothes. There’s this Beautiful Vintage Alaïa Motojackan with the leopard pattern that she wears with her double leopardutfit, which is my favorite. It was one of the first clothes we put together, and it was like this is Angela here. She wears Vintage Levi’s 517S the one with louboutins. I loved where she came together. She felt very unique and individual, but also very fashionable and indicative of that area. ”
“LandmanSeason 1 is streamed at Paramount+.
