“I grew up in Los Angeles, but then moved to New York in the late ’70s.
JORDAN BREAKAWAY PANTS SERIES
Every day was like a dream.”Īt the midway point of Welcome to Chippendales, the series becomes a bicoastal story, as Nick (the choreographer played by Murray Bartlett) and Denise move to New York to get away from Steve’s suffocating style. “It was a massive job to cover and make sure everything not only looks good on its own, but also worked with the production design, within the room, and with the other colors everyone was wearing,” Schnitzer says. “There's also the warehouses that eventually put their clothes in different vintage stores that you can go through, and we had people doing that as well.” They would spend up to 10 hours a day pulling stock that needed washing before it could get added to the vast collection. “We were fitting 80 people a day for those club scenes,” Schnitzer says. She and her team scoured every costume shop in L.A. The performers’ dolphin shorts, striped socks, and tanks are some of the many vintage pieces Schnitzer sourced for the series. Short shorts are not only a Colin Farrell favorite, but a staple of the series, worn by the dancers during rehearsals and downtime. The brilliant and ambitious “Hunkenstein” rock opera, which is immediately vetoed by Chippendales owner Steve Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani), is seemingly based on a Chippendales crowd-pleasing routine called “ The Perfect Man.” In this week’s new episode, the Chippendales’ New York opening features a centerpiece performance in which breakaway pants become breakaway shorts that are enthusiastically thrown into the audience. Not all of the show’s dances and performance themes are exact recreations of what the original Chippendales did, but they were all inspired by the classic routines. “They put their thumb in and pull forward they don’t just come off.” “Then we had to figure out how much you’re going to use, because there are stress points on the body-around someone’s butt, on their hips-and they have to work it,” Schnitzer says. Structured material combined with snap tape maintains the tension for the breakaway portion, which needs to hold together to avoid popping open too early.
Stretch is needed to accommodate the vigorous dancing and thrusting moves, while rigidity is necessary to pull off the big G-string reveal.
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While it was still a process of trial and error to design efficient rip-away pants-while still looking good-Peterson advised her about “the types of fabrics that would work better.” Two types of performance pants are required for different purposes. (Talk about going to the expert…) “I'm gonna save you hours of tears and frustration,” Schnitzer recalls Peterson telling her. Ditto for every performance G-string.Ĭreating the tearaway clothes was Schnitzer’s most significant challenge, as she doesn’t have a background in musical theater or dance and these pants needed to “work functionally and still look good.” The solution? Schnitzer sought advice from a colleague with experience in this field: none other than the costume designer for Magic Mike and its sequel, Magic Mike XXL, Chris Peterson. “ we used regular clothes, and they took their pants off, but once we started doing the breakaway pants, every pair of pants was made specifically for each dancer,” Schnitzer says, talking about the pivotal custom-made garment. look and the challenges of constructing the Chippendales' easy-to-remove attire. Schnitzer spoke with The Daily Beast’s Obsessed about capturing this period of excess, how New York style contrasts with the L.A. Schnitzer’s challenge to bring that era’s fashion-not just sexy dancers’ outfits-to life, providing the heart of this twisted story about an American Dream that slowly transforms into a true-crime saga. It became Welcome to Chippendale’s real-life costume designer Peggy A. Key to that was innovative costume designer Denise (Juliette Lewis), who comes up with a failsafe breakaway technique that turns awkward undressing into lightning-quick disrobing. The Hulu limited series chronicles the unexpected rise of the Chippendales troupe of exotic dancers in the late ’70s and early ’80s through the people behind the scenes who helped create an empire. Thankfully, by the time the strippers and their signature collars and cuffs make their New York City debut in the fifth episode, it is a polished showcase ready to take the world by storm, one metallic G-string at a time.
No one wants to watch a stripper who can’t get his pants off.Įarly scenes in Welcome to Chippendales depict inexperienced male dancers struggling to remove their pants during performances.
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