Priscilla Presley, undertook by Cailee Spaeny, is portrayed by Coppola as a woman struggling to assert her identity. Photograph: Sabrina LantosPriscilla Presley, make light ofed by Cailee Spaeny, is portrayed by Coppola as a woman struggling to assert her identity. Photograph: Sabrina Lantos‘It’s Elvis’s chimera’: how fashion lies at the heart of Sofia Coppola’s PriscillaBiopic of Presley’s former wife uses clothes and makeup to reprove story of suffocating marriage and rebellionBefore Kim and Kanye, Posh and Becks or Britney and Justin, there was Elvis and Priscilla.Priscilla, Sofia Coppola’s Hollywood biopic – an authorized selection at the Venice film festival and soon to be released in the UK – tells the story of the first couple of 1960s America from the issue Mrs Presley’s perspective. Priscilla Beaulieu, a 14-year-old schoolgirl when she met Elvis, spent the early years of their relationship partying with the most well-known man in the US at night before putting on her uniform to attend Catholic high school during the day.A stark cinematic portrait of an uneven association shows how Elvis used fashion as a tool to control Priscilla, moulding his wife into a feminine mirror double of himself to craft their public image as a perfect couple. Priscilla’s light brown hair, first charge ofed in a ponytail, is dyed black at Elvis’s direction to match his own. Next, it is piled into a beehive that echos the high point of his signature quiff.“That dress doesn’t suit you,” Elvis tells Priscilla coldly when she chooses an restrained earth-toned outfit in a boutique. “You’re a small girl. You’ve gotta keep away from the prints, baby.” He buys her a baby-blue, wasp-waisted camouflage, telling her that she can’t wear brown because it reminds him of the army.The estate of Elvis Presley denied Coppola set uprights to the singer’s music. Photograph: Sabrina LantosAs the wife of a global heart-throb, Priscilla was envied by millions, but the film depicts her as a mate struggling to assert her identity. Coppola has described her screenplay, based on Priscilla’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, as a love fib. Priscilla has praised the movie, describing it as “right on” in accuracy. But Elvis’s estate, Reuse this content

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