‘The Bikeriders’ Costume Designer Aged and Beat Up Leather to Create the Biker Looks
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variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “The Bikeriders” costume designer Erin Benach had eight months to develop the leather jackets.
Jeff Nichols’ latest drama follows a Midwestern biker club in the 1960s, inspired by Danny Lyon’s 1967 photo book about the Outlaws Motorcycle Club.
Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon are among the leather-clad bike riders leading the cast. With a limited budget and short prep time, Benach had to choose wisely which jackets she was going to build and which ones she was going to source. “It can be a viewer challenge: Which are original and made?
Which ones are vintage?” Benach laughs. With the movie set in the 1960s, Benach sought to find a thicker, calf leather. “It was weirdly hard to find,” she admits.
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