Bill Belew
Bill Belew was born in Virginia on May 20th, 1931 and is the Fashion Designer. At the age of 76, Bill Belew biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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William Lewis Belew (May 20, 1931 – January 7, 2008) was an American costume designer who created stage costumes worn by Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald, The Band, Gladys Knight, Gloria Estefan, Josephine Baker, Brooke Shields, Dionne Warwick, and the Jacksons, among others.
Belew is best known for the stage costumes he made for Elvis, who urged Belew to work as a costume designer.
He made the tight-fitting black leather jacket that Elvis wore in the 1968 NBC Comeback Special, as well as the bell-bottomed jumpsuit outfits with high Napoleonic collars, pointed sleeve cuffs, wide belts, and capes, embossed with gems, metal and rhinestone studding, sequins, and embroidery.
Elvis was also designed the suit on the famous photograph of President Nixon and him in the Oval Office, a velveteen outfit that was originally intended for Elvis to use in his Las Vegas shows.
Belew has explains that they were inspired by Napoleon's wardrobe and that he chose them because they would frame and draw attention to Presley's face.
We discovered that the best shade was white.
They were able to change the color of his suit, while black would absorb all of the color.
And it was impossible to distinguish him.
And we tried blue, which was one of his favorite colors.
Red.
But the truth was that white was the best thing, and, of course, you should know, not the wardrobe, but not the actor.
Elvis' offstage wardrobe, as well as the Peacock (designed for the 1973 Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii via satellite) and the Peacock were two of Belew's Elvis jumpsuits (first seen on the front of the 1975 album Promised Land).
The Peacock suit was auctioned on the internet in 2008 for $300,000.
Gene Doucette's intricate embroidery, which was getting a greater presence on the jumpsuits from 1974-77, made it the most expensive piece of Elvis memorabilia on auction. Bill Belew was in high demand in the 1970s.
Gene will have the blank suits and Gene will create them himself because he was so busy doing television shows and movies.
Gene produced the bulk of the suits from 1972 to Elvis' death.
He created the Aloha, Peacock, Sundial, Tiger, and American Eagle. In Palm Springs, California, Belew died at the age of 76 from diabetes-related illnesses.