‘Death on the Nile’: Paco Delgado on Creating Gal Gadot’s Wealthy Look and That Tiffany’s Diamond
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen costume designer Paco Delgado was creating Gal Gadot’s look as the heiress Linnet Ridgeway Doyle in Kenneth Branagh’s “Death on the Nile,” he played with the concept of wealth touched by vulnerability.Branagh assembled an all-star cast, including Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Sophie Okonedo and Letitia Wright, for his retelling of the Agatha Christie murder mystery among a group of friends joining Linnet and Simon Doyle (Hammer) on their honeymoon in 1930s Egypt.At the center of the film is Linnet, a woman who on the surface has everything.
She’s powerful, but Delgado says she’s insecure. “She’s surrounded by people who constantly criticize her, and she feels everyone wants to take her money.
I wanted to show fragility through her costume,” he says. He incorporated soft, pale colors and flowing silks into Linnet’s wardrobe.
Early in the film, just before a murder occurs, the group makes a stop at the temple of Abu Simbel. While the other characters are dressed in suitable sightseeing attire such as linen and sun hats, Delgado puts Linnet in a flowing off-white silk dress. “That’s who she was, and what she would wear.
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