Exploring the Wardrobe Inspirations Behind The Get Down

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There are few directors who understand the power of costume quite so emphatically as Baz Luhrmann, a man whose fantastical aesthetic and thoroughly visual approach to filmmaking has become a defining facet of contemporary cinema. Remember, for example, Leonardo di Caprio’s Hawaiian-print shirts in Romeo + Juliet, Nicole Kidman’s exceptional basques in Moulin Rouge – and now, the whole wardrobe in new Netflix series The Get Down, a magical realist…