For costume designer Sandy Powell, perhaps the biggest highlight of working on The Glorias — the new feature film about Gloria Steinem at four stages of life — was being invited to meet the feminist icon at home in New York and peak inside her closet. “It was exciting to actually meeting Gloria and ask her questions about her life and her clothes.
That was the most thrilling thing. I went to her house and she showed me her closet,” says Powell, who says that Steinem, now 86, lent her some of her belts and jewelry, including rings, to use in costuming the Julia Taymor-helmed film, which was shot in Savannah, Georgia, and which stars Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Janelle Monae, Bette Midler and Lorraine Toussaint.
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