![]() “But since you’re not really staring at them, they don’t seem totally caricatured. “They’re almost like something you’d see in ‘Guys and Dolls,’” she says. “Every time he delivers one of his powerful speeches to the guys, he takes his two fingers, with the pinkies out, and straightens himself by pulling on the front of his shirt or jacket.”Īccording to McCabe, the fashionable shoes Stallone wears in “Tulsa King” echo another beloved gangster classic, albeit one with more singing and less bloodshed. “He does it almost like a punctuation,” McCabe says. The way Dwight deliberately smooths and adjusts each item of clothing provides another psychological key to understanding him. “Also, Dwight is a show-off, which you see clearly during the funeral of his brother, where his sister keeps calling him a show-off and his daughter can’t stand the fancy restaurant he takes them to.” “This might sound crazy, but I really think there’s a certain New York thing to that,” she says. ![]() Similar to John Gotti, Dwight is a gangster who truly enjoys dressing to impress, and McCabe attributes some of that attitude to the city the character calls home. “The dirt in Oklahoma is almost an orange rust color, so I tried to stick to that,” she says. But once Dwight arrives in Tulsa, she incorporates a range of hues that she refers to as “the Grand Canyon at Sunset.” This softer palette complements the landscape’s natural beauty. Sylvester Stallone as Dwight “The General” Manfredi and Jay Will as Tysonįor the show’s New York scenes, her costumes emphasize dark and deep colors, bordering on black. Known for his fondness for hand-painted silk ties, matching pocket squares, brightly polished alligator shoes, and double-breasted Brioni suits, Gotti’s sartorial excesses and his love of Italian fabrics earned him the colorful nickname “The Dapper Don.” “John Gotti was definitely a big one,” she says. Her primary influence, however, was a legendary underworld figure whose flamboyant style made him a household name. “I looked at the Gambino crime family, the Franzese family, and all the usual ones that you always saw in the papers back then,” she says. How Puppetry Transformed Josh Groban Into 'The Beast'Ĭostume designer Suzanne McCabe created Stallone’s wardrobe on the series, and she based many of her designs on the real-life Mafia bosses whose taste in expensive clothing and flashy accessories made them unlikely celebrities throughout the 1980s. 'Rings of Power' and 'Daisy Jones' Costume Designers Talk Creating Elven Garments and 1970s Vintage Looks Palaces, Ranches, and Retro Kitchens: Production Designers for 'The Great,' '1923' and 'History of the World Part II' Talk Crafting Period-Accurate Sets From Al Pacino’s white suit in “Scarface” and Robert De Niro’s tortoiseshell sunglasses in “Casino” to James Gandolfini’s bowling shirts in “The Sopranos” and Steve Buscemi’s Derby hats in “Boardwalk Empire,” movie and TV gangsters are famous for their bold fashion sense.Īnd the latest nattily dressed mobster to hit the screen is Dwight Manfredi, the Mafia capo played by Sylvester Stallone in the Paramount+ series “ Tulsa King.” Created by Taylor Sheridan, the show stars Stallone as an aging mafioso who’s exiled to Tulsa, Okla., by his New York crime family after spending 25 years in prison.
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