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Fashion Bug Bites Dracula

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19921125
Author:Elizabeth Snead

Beware! Dracula's biting fashion sense may drive you batty this fall.

Francis Ford Coppola's revamping of the legend in the film "Bram Stoker's Dracula" gives the world a new, more fashion-conscious Count. Coppola placed enormous importance on Dracula's costumes, relying on them for a mood of eerie eroticism. He shot most of the film on a sound stage, using old-fashioned magicians' techniques of light, mirrors and smoke and lots of elaborate, undulating fabric.

Japanese costume designer Eiko Ishioka (M Butterfly) created a gothic opulence and druggy decadence through the clothing. Her ...

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