“[Bille Holiday] was such an avant-garde [figure], so it was trying to pull things that seemed new. There are so many pictures of her, it’s wild.
She has so many looks within all these different times, so I just went towards images that drew me in, and stayed on the line of the year that we were working in.
There would be times where we were coming directly from a moment, and matching to a moment in time, and then there were moments where we could take liberty.
And that was where I got to create more.” — Paolo NiedduFor more from our conversation with the Billie Holiday costume designer—who previously collaborated with director Lee Daniels on the Fox series, Empire—read on.DEADLINE: What were your first impressions of the script for Billie
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