Warning: This article contains minor spoilers fromFeud: Capote Vs. the Swansepisode 3, “Masquerade 1966.”
What was it like inside Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball?
As with all the best parties, you just had to be there.
Chloe Sevigny’s C.Z. Guest parties it up at the Black and White Ball in ‘Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans’.FX
“It is only about the way you look.
(Albert and David Maysles actually interviewed the real Capote for a documentary short titledWith Love From Truman.)
“We decided to approach it through filmography, as it were, through news footage.
Zac Posen poses with Molly Ringwald at the New York premiere of ‘Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans’.Udo Salters/Patrick McMullan via Getty
Calista Flockhart was filming a scene there at the time as one of Capote’s Swan, Lee Radziwill.
I love history and had all the books.
We’re telling our own version of history here based on a historical event.”
Naomi Watts' Babe Paley attends the Black and White Ball in ‘Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans’.FX
“I then went into the frenzy of material shopping,” Posen adds.
“Ryan said, ‘I think this is not necessarily history.
I need this elevated.
Marin Ireland appears as Katharine Graham in ‘Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans’.FX
“He said, ‘I want reveals.’
It was just such a great moment, and it became like Method costume making.”
(Yes, that had a reveal.)
It was “that level of in-depth research,” he says.
“He has an encyclopedic sense of the zeitgeist through the years,” the showrunner continues.
“Designers are intellectuals, whether you’re talking about Karl Lagerfeld or Marc Jacobs, certainly Vivienne Westwood.
They’re making conceptual art, and what [Posen] did was conceptual art.
It’s the very best of Zac.
That’s my Zac quote.”
