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to days outfit he is what's happening

1:02

in the world for Friday April Twenty

1:04

six. The. Head of

1:06

Australia's pick Mental Health Body has

1:08

resigned over what he is labeling

1:10

the album easy government inaction. Matt

1:12

Berryman, a former professional cricketer and

1:14

businessmen, was appointed to Mental Health

1:16

is Trail Years top role in

1:18

December Twenty Twenty One But as

1:21

quit in protest sang, not Enough

1:23

is being done. Mental health services

1:25

have been struggling to cope with

1:27

demand. After the pandemic forced people

1:29

into long isolation periods that harmed

1:31

well being. Mister Berryman took aim

1:33

at the government's approach to mental.

1:35

Health saying it was in adequately

1:37

funded and was not given the

1:39

attention it deserved. Health Minister Mark

1:41

Butler said the government would continue

1:43

to work closely with the sector

1:46

and reform wouldn't happen overnight. Former

1:48

National Enquirer a publisher David Pekka

1:50

has testified at Donald Trump's criminal

1:52

trial that he worked out a

1:54

deal that would allow Trump to

1:56

by the silence of a former

1:58

Playboy model. Pekka said

2:00

he signed an agreement with Trump's personal

2:02

lawyer, Michael Cohen, to assign the rights

2:04

to the model's story to a shell

2:06

company that would hide the fact that

2:08

Trump was paying for it. However,

2:11

the deal was called off after Pekka

2:13

spoke with a company lawyer. Pekka is

2:15

a key witness in the case against

2:17

the former US President, who was accused

2:19

of falsifying business records to cover up

2:21

a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels,

2:23

who said she had a sexual encounter

2:25

with Trump. Police

2:27

say Pekka, who has not been

2:30

charged with a crime, engaged in

2:32

conspiracy with Trump and Cohen to

2:34

corrupt the 2016 election by suppressing

2:36

unflattering stories that might hurt Trump's

2:38

reputation. New York's highest

2:41

court has overturned the 2020

2:43

sex crimes conviction of former

2:45

Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. The

2:48

state court of appeals said the trial

2:50

judge made a mistake by letting prosecutors

2:53

introduce testimony from women who claimed that

2:55

Weinstein assaulted them even though they were

2:57

not part of the charges he faced.

3:00

Weinstein has been serving a 23-year prison

3:03

sentence after being convicted in February 2020

3:06

of sexually assaulting a former production assistant

3:08

in 2006 and raping an aspiring actress

3:11

in 2013. Last

3:13

year he was separately sentenced to 16 years in

3:15

prison after being convicted of the 2013

3:18

rape of an actress in Los Angeles. It

3:20

will now be up to the Manhattan District Attorney

3:22

Alvin Bragg to decide whether to

3:24

retry Weinstein in court. The

3:26

2020 verdict was considered a milestone

3:29

for Me Too in which women

3:31

have accused hundreds of men in

3:33

entertainment, media, politics and many other

3:35

fields of sexual misconduct. The

3:38

famous windmill atop the Moulin Rouge

3:40

has fallen to the ground alongside

3:42

letters from its name. The

3:44

general manager of the iconic Cabaret Club said it

3:46

was the first time in its 135-year history

3:49

to happen. The Moulin Rouge,

3:52

founded in 1889,

3:54

became a global symbol of end-of-the-century

3:56

Parisian culture. Its Kancan dancers widely depicted in

3:58

the film are the first to have a look at the world paintings by

4:00

avant-garde artists of the era. Nowadays

4:03

the audience is largely made up of tourist

4:05

groups who have, since the incident, lined the

4:07

streets with locals to view the scene. Local

4:10

residents who heard the news on the radio

4:12

rushed to witness what had happened with some

4:14

saying it's very sad. It's not the Moulin

4:17

Rouge anymore. It's lost its wings. It's lost

4:19

its soul. A spokesperson for the Moulin Rouge

4:21

said the theatre would investigate the cause of

4:23

the incident with experts and insurers. It

4:26

occurred at 2am with no one on the boulevard so

4:28

there were no injuries. That's

4:31

your latest news headlines. Next we're

4:33

talking about the fashion revolution that

4:35

is method dressing. While

4:46

a movie only takes about two hours

4:48

to watch, the average movie takes about

4:51

five years to make. That

4:53

spans quite a few stages

4:55

of the process from writing,

4:57

pitching, finding the funding, pre-production,

4:59

filming, post-production and then finally

5:01

premiering. So there is a

5:03

lot of pressure to get people to see a

5:06

movie and make back some, if not more, of

5:08

the money it costs to actually make it. The

5:11

PR push of a movie or series

5:13

coming out spans social media, billboards, buses,

5:16

but some projects have gone to extreme lengths

5:18

to get their project out in the world.

5:21

Remember the 1999 cult classic The

5:23

Blair Witch Project? I'm scared to close my

5:25

eyes. I'm scared

5:28

to open them. The

5:34

film had a total budget of $35,000 so the

5:36

team went to some extraordinary lengths, making

5:40

a fake missing poster featuring three

5:42

of the actors and spreading the

5:44

narrative that the footage making up

5:46

the entire movie had been discovered

5:48

after three student filmmakers searching for

5:51

the so-called Blair Witch Project disappeared

5:53

in the woods of rural Maryland.

5:56

Controversial or not, it seemed to work as

5:58

the movie made 200... $148

6:01

million worldwide and earned its place in

6:03

the Guinness Book of World Records for

6:05

the highest box office proceeds to

6:07

budget ratio in film history.

6:12

There are many PR stunts littered

6:14

throughout Hollywood, including Jackass stars peeing

6:17

on red carpets ahead of Jackass

6:19

2 premiering. The

6:21

2005 horror movie House of Wax lent

6:23

heavily on their casting of Paris Hilton,

6:26

even though she died one hour into

6:28

the film, so the PR team made

6:30

t-shirts that said, See Paris Time. Or

6:33

Joaquin Phoenix, who appeared on Letterman claiming to

6:35

be giving up his acting career to pursue

6:38

music. But you are, you're not going to

6:40

act anymore? No. Why

6:43

is it? I don't know. A

6:48

year later, director Kasey Affleck admitted it

6:51

was all for their mockumentary, I'm still

6:53

here. And

6:55

unless you were living under a rock,

6:58

the PR team behind Barbie made sure

7:00

that every company, every product, every bus,

7:02

bench, or just any surface could in

7:04

some way be turned pink. Mattel

7:07

has over 100 licensing partners selling

7:09

Barbie merchandise, and much of it

7:11

isn't for kids at all. From

7:13

clothing at the Gap, to sold

7:15

out pink plastic heels at Aldo,

7:17

Barbie, Clog Crocs, beauty products and

7:19

tools at Ulta, to rugs, and

7:22

so much more. But the

7:24

most impressive moments of Barbie Core

7:26

were the iconic looks worn by

7:28

Margot Robbie across the whole press

7:31

tour. Robbie's stylist, Andrew Mukumal, leaning

7:33

into the phenomenon defined as method

7:35

dressing. A technique that

7:37

combines fashion and performance, where an

7:39

actor or creative wears outfits or

7:42

elements to reference the film or

7:44

their character. Production

7:46

teams finding a way to extend a

7:48

project's cinematic universe onto the red carpet.

7:51

In the case of Barbie, not only

7:53

did Margot Robbie arrive at events in

7:55

a life-sized version of Barbie's pink convertible,

7:57

we saw her in multiple vintage outfits.

8:00

made life-size including a Versace made

8:02

version of the 1985 Day-to-Night Barbie

8:06

and a Vivian Westwood recreation of the

8:08

Enchanted Evening Gown from the 1960s. We

8:11

know she transforms into Barbie on

8:13

screen but she's also transformed herself

8:15

into real-life Barbie on the

8:17

global press tour with look after

8:19

look inspired by iconic dolls. It's

8:22

not plastic it's fantastic. The

8:26

experts have tried to trace back the

8:28

origins as to when method dressing first

8:30

appeared on red carpets. With some arguing

8:32

it was first seen when Blake Lively

8:34

opted for a series of power dressing

8:36

looks for the launch of the film

8:38

A Simple Favour. Making headlines

8:40

just this month are the tennis themed

8:42

red carpet outfits Zendaya is sporting for

8:44

her latest film Challenges. We get so

8:47

lucky to be a part of films

8:49

with with such like rich references anyway

8:51

so might as well just like pull

8:53

from that. But this isn't the first

8:56

time Zendaya has method dressed. She

8:58

and her stylist Laura Roach have been method

9:00

dressing since the 2017 film

9:02

The Greatest Showmen. You may have seen

9:04

some of her iconic looks earlier this

9:06

year for June 2 in which Roach

9:08

said they adopted method dressing for these

9:11

looks too. The looks serve as an

9:13

extension of the wardrobe from the movie.

9:15

It was intentional and purposeful. So

9:19

is method dressing just part and parcel with

9:21

a press tour or a fashion statement to

9:24

honor the creatives of the film? Or

9:26

is it both? Fashion writer

9:28

and commentator Glynis Trail Nash thinks we'll see

9:31

method dressing more and more. Glynis when we

9:33

look at a celebrity on the red carpet

9:35

and we see their outfit how many people

9:37

are involved in creating that look?

9:40

I mean I guess it depends on the

9:42

star but generally there is a key stylist

9:44

that will likely be working with that star

9:47

on a regular basis. So they'll have a

9:49

really good understanding of what they like, what

9:51

suits them, all of that kind of thing.

9:53

And then there's obviously the relationships with the

9:55

fashion brands. Now if you've got a star

9:58

that is under a contract

10:00

for example with a fashion house then wearing

10:04

that house for the duration of awards

10:09

season for example. That's kind of the main thing but then you've obviously

10:11

got your glam squad, you've got your hair and makeup, you've got all

10:13

of that. I mean whenever people sort of post things on Instagram with

10:15

their glam team like, how many people? What

10:18

are some of your favorite iconic red carpet looks? It

10:20

can be Met Gala or it can be a film

10:22

premiere but what sort of jumps to mind when you

10:25

think of, oh that's a great look. Oh

10:27

do you know what I do still think of the

10:29

heyday of Nicole Kidman in that

10:31

Chatea's Dior by John Galliano years ago

10:33

with the sort of the chinoiserie effect

10:36

because no one wears chatea either. I

10:38

mean it's such a weird color but

10:40

I do love it when it's done

10:42

right. So that's always been a highlight

10:44

and also the cape lance

10:46

ship. I think it was another Oscar's dress

10:49

and it was the Jean-Paul Gaultier and it

10:51

had the embroidered hummingbirds and things down the

10:53

back. So from the front it's just this

10:55

very plain black dress and you sort of

10:57

turn around and it's got this script back

10:59

with all this beautiful embroidery on. It's just

11:01

lush. From your point of view in

11:03

the fashion world, how would you

11:05

describe method dressing? I mean it's

11:07

like method acting isn't it? You've got to live

11:09

the character all the time to really

11:11

immerse yourself in the character. And so

11:14

that's exactly what they're doing but on

11:16

the red carpet. They're fully immersing themselves

11:18

in this world, in this character perhaps,

11:21

to extend the

11:23

visual narrative of what they've been

11:25

working on. I don't mind a bit

11:27

of method dressing occasionally. I think, oh cute, yeah

11:29

of course not to your film. Great.

11:31

Sometimes it can be incredibly effective

11:34

and I think other times I

11:37

question why because depending on the

11:39

character obviously and the theme of

11:41

the film, we've got a few

11:44

very relevant examples. I

11:46

mean Zendaya currently with the challenges tennis

11:49

themed film and then recently

11:51

Barbie. For me, Barbie

11:53

got a bit boring. Interesting. After

11:55

About the third time of Margot

11:57

Robbie in a Barbie pink outfit.

12:00

I'm. A little bit like have we not

12:02

got another surprise he have we not

12:04

got something different to stay here you

12:06

are so I'm Brand but it's a

12:08

bit dull now. So. I

12:10

wouldn't know when they are. I

12:12

guess emanating the world is this

12:15

creatively where's it going from cause

12:17

play to. Costume.

12:19

Character to session. It.

12:21

Can get a because play when you

12:24

look at it. From assassin perspective, Outrage

12:26

Assassin is fantastic. I'm here for it's

12:28

sometimes it can be ridiculous. I'm also

12:30

here for that. I think this notion

12:33

of you wearing fasten and fasten wearing

12:35

you and I think cross that line

12:37

too fast and wearing you or costume.

12:39

where are you and it doesn't feel

12:42

natural. All of those things kind of

12:44

come into play here. and that's when

12:46

I think it's just costume and that

12:49

doesn't feel true to the person It

12:51

may. Feel true to a publicist or of

12:53

Mayfield true to a costume design. About how

12:55

you guys that have been some of the

12:58

most ridiculous as moments. that mean we have

13:00

to talk about the beard phone moment at

13:02

the Oscars this year. the Minute with Gold.

13:04

I loved that so much and at the

13:06

costuming but he wasn't plugging it to anything

13:09

like it wasn't a line for that, he

13:11

was his beard having a bit of a

13:13

long as he likes to. Does.

13:15

This stuff exist in the bubble of

13:18

Just When The film. Is premiering.

13:20

Or. Do we actually see any sessions in

13:22

the real world take influence? Them is

13:24

like is their allies Sir Bobby and

13:26

still today in what way. Wearing or

13:28

are we saying big sleeve because of

13:30

poor things like is anything that we

13:32

can draw from potentially popping down his

13:34

are and saying something. Absolutely it's a

13:36

tried and true things I mean bobby call

13:39

with the most obvious follow me around seventy

13:41

with during pink a room with wearing pink

13:43

body toll booth up things with a capital

13:45

say sir absolutely we say that filter through.

13:48

I think we will see tennis good for

13:50

example and maybe you know some not Vallejo

13:52

get another it's as a few nights things

13:54

like that. I mean I do think come

13:57

European summer we'll be seeing a bit of

13:59

bass. The or let's talk about

14:01

Sunday are and challenges as well as working

14:03

with law. Roach a personal. Stylist

14:05

for many years has done june

14:07

two what as some the conversations

14:09

happening in the fashion world about

14:11

her becoming. I. Guess the unofficial

14:13

queen of Method dressing. See the

14:16

interesting because and I'm and listen I

14:18

guess passivity between her and law right?

14:20

So there was the work, something a

14:22

lot of things together I mean the

14:25

doing stuff particularly for me that really

14:27

hasn't and sceptically cutting edge fashion happening

14:29

so I find that that was exciting

14:31

because it with message dressing but it

14:33

was most the mess it up and

14:35

carried does. So. Because it with

14:38

a sigh heist film you could really poor

14:40

specially into an avid god territories and that

14:42

was interesting and you didn't know what it

14:44

was ever going to be. I'm in a

14:47

lot that metallic body through she wore that

14:49

was great from the archive for example. I

14:51

mean yea and then she kind of keeps

14:53

you on your toes while met the dressing

14:56

with the think something that Bobby did not

14:58

do. The entire for doing is

15:00

very forward looking at. very avant garde. It's

15:02

very cussing into the nights. There is still

15:04

a sense of anticipation with her around that

15:06

and I think that's probably the key. When.

15:09

We look at something like Miley Cyrus

15:11

at the Grammys and Sea Hunt. Like

15:13

the big hair and a glance. really

15:15

really it's hard Beautiful thing that we

15:17

then new a certain amount of time

15:19

later that that was leaning into a

15:21

film clip that was about to come

15:23

out. Is it still Method Dressing is

15:25

that teasing sort of Easter Eggs that

15:27

we don't even know ways to exit?

15:30

Oh yeah, I mean in a

15:32

lot of ways I think it's almost

15:34

more clever and I guess it's more

15:36

music related because music it feels like

15:38

a fast a process that kind of

15:40

plant the seed. I think an edge

15:42

on about. Where's he going

15:44

with these? What does she can do And then

15:46

you kind of makes you whites to the revealed.

15:49

So I think it does build anticipation and especially

15:51

when it's a bit of a departure. now

15:53

when there is a film or series

15:55

coming out or a new album is

15:58

it an expectation that they're going to

16:00

do something method dressing or that is

16:02

going to be something that surprises us.

16:04

Is the normal PR just not cutting

16:06

it anymore that this is the level up

16:08

that we need to be doing? Well that's

16:10

a very good question and there's probably a lot

16:12

of truth in it but maybe that is the

16:15

case. I hope not always.

16:17

I think when you do it

16:19

well, you do it judiciously, it

16:21

can be incredibly effective. Overdo it

16:23

or it becomes an expectation broadly,

16:25

that kind of doubles the effect

16:27

a bit. If

16:31

you also love fashion you can listen to

16:33

our podcast Nothing To Wear hosted by Leigh

16:35

Campbell. There's a link in the show notes.

16:38

This episode of The Quickie is produced

16:40

by myself Grace Rouvray and Taylor Strano

16:43

with audio production by Tom Lyon. you