Breaking down an icon's fashion.from @frontoffice.co

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Alright. So this is Timothy Chalamet playing Bob Dylan, and this is Bob Dylan also playing Bob Dylan. And here he is playing another version of Bob Dylan. And that's kind of what Bob Dylan's career was like. As he moves from era to era, he has a different sound, a different good. Each tier, a different big idea. So when Bob Dylan arrives in Greenwich Village in the early nineteen sixties, he's shot right in the middle of the folk music scene. And the big idea to be conveyed, not only in the music, but also in the clothes, is the idea of the everyman, a blue collar aesthetic. So how do we turn that idea of the working class into a three-dimensional object? So that turns into decisions about fabric. It has to be hard wearing. So we're looking at fabrics like denim, like corduroy, like cotton duck cloth. And these blue collar clothes are usually built for worse, so the silhouette is loose to be comfortable. In terms of color, these wardrobes are usually small no it has to be earth toned or something that doesn't stand out that can be matched with many other clothes. This idea of being the everyman travels from his head to the head of his audiences and this helps him become the new face of the folk music movement. This helps him slot right next to his heroes, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, like legends of folk music. But this doesn't last forever because in the mid nineteen sixties, Bob Dylan wants to communicate a different idea. His new big idea is about independence because he finds that he's better constrained by the folk art movement. So that loose comfortable workwear silhouette becomes a lot more streamlined, a lot more sleeker, a lot more tailored. His choices of color become quite extreme no he's either old and black better when he does have visual interest it's pretty extreme with these polka dot shirts and the way he presents himself with his wild hair and the sunglasses. And he does all this no that people realize that this is a new phase. Dylan goes electric. Dylan is not part of this folk movement anymore. And the great thing about this movie is that it is all about these two phases of his career. And you get to see this transition, not only in the music, but also in the look, in the attitude, the feelings, the ideas. And what will probably get a lot of attention is the acting and the performances, but it's almost worth watching the movie just to see that visual communication of these ideas. So the films and cinemas now are complete no, a film by James Mangold, costume designer is Arianne Phillips, and after watching the movie you might be inspired to dress like Bob Dylan. Like rank I try on the folk music Dylan? Can I try on the electric Dylan? But I think the more exciting takeaway is this idea of how can I communicate like via silhouette, via fabric, via color no that the ideas in my head get to travel via clothes into someone else? And if your big idea is powerful enough and if you are skilled enough in doing it, that person can be in a different country fifty years from now.