WHO WHAT WEAR: How would you explain The Last Tycoon to someone?
LILY COLLINS: The Last Tycoon is about Hollywood in the 1930s. Specifically, it's about the head of a studio, Pat Brady, and his right-hand man, Monroe Stahr, and how they run their studio together, the creative side and the money side. I play Celia Brady, who is Pat's daughter and is madly in love with Monroe Stahr. She's a go-getter in college and knows that she wants to be in this industry behind the scenes and work her way up and become a mogul of sorts of her own. But she's a female, and women in the 1930s normally were not known to do that.
WWW: What do you love about the beauty and fashion of the '30s?
LC: I just love that everyone was put together all the time for anything, no matter if it was to go out and buy groceries or to go to the theater or driving in your car to have a picnic. You dress to the nines and everything matched, and you had hats and accessories to go with it all. [The silhouettes] really accentuated a woman's body, and everything looked so eloquently made. Even the lesser expensive items just looked so beautiful. I think there was a real magic to the outfits.
WWW: What was it like working with costume designer Janie Bryant on this project?
LC: This was only the pilot, so I hope to get to collaborate more with her. It was kind of like a major tease! I was a huge fan of her work before, obviously with Mad Men. I think it's really interesting how one can do a period piece and not make it feel to caricature-y, and she just makes it looks so natural. She lives and breathes for vintage and clothing and costumes. She would pick out colors and patterns that I normally wouldn't gravitate toward, but then the second I put it on, I thought, Oh my god, I would have never chosen this, but you nailed it! She got my character right away, and I felt the second I had my fitting with her I got who Celia was. It really plays a huge role in the creation of the character.
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