‘A Complete Unknown’: How Its Designers Brought Back Greenwich Village – and Bob Dylan’s Skinny Jeans

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Behind the scenes of 'A Complete Unknown,' the painstaking effort to recreate Bob Dylan's early days in 1960s Greenwich Village
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  • Director James Mangold's multiple script rewrites gave the production and costume teams more time to meticulously research and re-create the look and feel of 1960s New York City
  • The designers aimed for authenticity, not slavish imitation, leveraging pandemic and strike delays to perfect Greenwich Village's gritty, bohemian aesthetic and Dylan's signature skinny jean style
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Bob Dylan, James Mangold, François Audouy, Arianne Phillips, TheWrap, A Complete Unknown
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