“The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat” is officially streaming today on Hulu! 💫
The film is based on the celebrated book by Edward Kelsey Moore and stars Sanaa Lathan, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Uzo Aduba. Costume designer Whitney Anne Adams had the incredible task of bringing the story to life through costumes, spanning four decades.
Whitney shared the challenges and triumphs of designing for a film that spans from 1950 to 1999. “This film spans four different decades — 1950, 1968, 1977, and 1999 — so, the research process was quite intense. From yearbooks and public family photo albums on Flickr, to newspaper articles, photography books, magazines and catalogs, I found inspiration everywhere. We had so many costumes to procure and on a very tight time frame (we shot this film in only 30 days). At the end of filming, we had 162 principal costumes and over 1,000 background costumes - including 67 costume changes just between the young and adult Supremes themselves! We also were filming in Wilmington, NC and we had to ship almost every costume piece in from around the country: Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and vintage shops across the US.”
Whitney’s meticulous attention to detail and passion for storytelling through costume design are evident throughout the film. She shares, “my favorite part about this story is that the bonds and love of friendship and family will get us through the high highs and the low lows of life. In order to help tell that story through the costume design, I fixated on the color progression, with the 1968 portions of the film awash in bright, happy, youthful colors that reflected the promise of the future; and then those give way to more sophisticated and deeper colors in 1999, as our main trio has weathered life’s storms together.”
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