SHINY ALL OVER Amy Adamss deep V.
  • SHINY ALL OVER Amy Adams's deep V.

American Hustle is a smart film about wealth and deception and scattershot yearning, and it's set in 1978, so the year's many fashion enchantments suffuse all scenes: the man-perms, the horse-bit pendants, the disco sparkles, the bouncing gold chains, the perpetual braless-ness. Costume designer Michael Wilkinson pulled inspiration from the era's superstars, including Diane von Furstenberg and Yves Saint Laurent, and he collaborated with Halston staff, who granted him access to the company's vaults. "There's little bits of Halston sprinkled throughout the whole movie," Wilkinson told Emily Zemler for Elle.

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