"Overlooked" Film

25 Years Ago, Almost Famous Gave Us The Penny Lane Coat

The story and fashion endure.

by Marie Lodi, thezoereport.com

Twenty-five years after its release, Almost Famous still feels like the perfect coming-of-age movie that makes you feel nostalgic, even if it’s for a time and place you’ve never been. Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age dramedy follows 15-year-old rock critic wunderkind William (played by Patrick Fugit), who lands a Rolling Stone assignment and goes on tour with a (fictional) 1973 band called Stillwater. If you’ve ever fallen in love with a song, an album, or a band, you’ll see yourself in William, or better yet, the well-dressed muse, Penny Lane (played by Kate Hudson)

Costume designer Betsy Heimann understood that clothes would be as much a part of the storytelling as the music itself. She had worked with Crowe previously on Jerry Maguire, but also “shared a past in rock and roll” with the director and was thrilled when she got the call to work on FINISH READING HERE

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