It was a black-and-white matter successful New York yesterday erstwhile the formed of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans gathered up of the miniseries’ hotly anticipated premiere adjacent week.
Leading the mode was Ally McBeal prima Calista Flockhart who nailed the two-toned taxable arsenic she walked the achromatic carpet astatine the Museum of Modern Art successful Manhattan.
Flockhart, 59, wowed successful a floor-length gown by Zuhair Murad teamed with Tiffany & Co. jewellery – a ace stylish ensemble that would get the stamp of support from her on-screen quality Lee Radziwill, the sister of erstwhile US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
The histrion and her castmates each represent real-life figures from the ‘70s connected the amusement who are referred to arsenic the “Swans”.
The FX miniseries – which premieres locally connected BINGE connected January 31 – is based connected the real-life play erstwhile famed writer Truman Capote (played by Tom Hollander) exposed his societal ellipse of socialites, aka his alleged “Swans”, successful an nonfiction published successful Esquire.
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The fallout was swift and saw Capote was shunned from the radical successful spectacular fashion.
Playing a Swan alongside Flockhart is Aussie histrion Naomi Watts, who looked stunning astatine the New York premiere.
Wearing a Givenchy lace gown, Watts channelled her interior Babe Paley – the manner icon she plays connected the bid – with achromatic opera gloves and a precise appropriately swan-shaped crystal clutch from Judith Leiber Viveka.
Also bringing the glam were co-stars Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Molly Ringwald and Demi Moore, who channelled a literal swan successful her Balmain gown, acknowledgment to its swam motif.
Hollander, who is superb arsenic the late, large Capote, kept it elemental successful a tux – a sartorial enactment his “rebel” on-screen ego would astir decidedly person not chosen.
“I deliberation successful a satellite wherever radical were overmuch much repressed, [Truman] was a large amusement disconnected successful a satellite wherever everyone is showing disconnected each the time,” Hollander told People mag astatine the event.
Ringwald – who plays speech amusement big Johnny Carson’s 2nd wife, Joanne Carson – agreed.
She told People that Capote and the Swans were so “the influencers of their day”, likening their statuses to the Beyoncés and Taylor Swifts of this era.