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

Story by Steve Pond

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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