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THE ARTISAN SUMMER 2024 • 43 PALM ROYALE 1960's SOCIALITES BROUGHT TO LIFE IN PHOTOS BY ERICA PARISE/APPLE TV+ Palm Royale is a beautiful love letter to one of my favorite times in American history, featuring the opulent and luxurious women of Palm Beach who are to me the original "e Real Housewives of 1969." I was drawn to work on the show because of the historical aspect of it, and the challenge of a period piece. When you're working on a modern show, many times the direction is for a "no-make-up look," so when you have the opportunity to work on a period piece, it's a treat, and a real draw for me. I was steered into the look through extensive research and the classic photography of Slim Aarons, with his fantastic images of socialites, jetsetters and celebrities in the 1960s and '70s, was a huge inspiration for the look of Palm Royale. I had a lot of conversations with the creator Abe Sylvia, our costume designer Alix Friedberg and executive producer Tate Taylor about the time period and the great influence of these images. Many of Aarons' photographs are specific to Palm Beach, so we were able to see all the incredible details of the era. Palm Beach had quite a unique style, and we wanted to ensure that what we were creating was not only period-specific but accurate to this location. Palm Beach in 1969 was magical and perfect and so were the people who lived there. MAKE-UP B Y T R I C I A S A W Y E R D E P A R T M E N T H E A D M A K E - U P HAIR B Y K A R E N B A R T E K D E P A R T M E N T H E A D H A I R Palm Royale is a luxurious 1969 period following daring former beauty pageant queen Maxine Simmons, played by the incomparable Kristen Wiig, as she attempts to break into Palm Beach high society. I got involved in the project as a referral from a friend, and when I looked at the hair styles of the time period, I realized how fun they would be to create, and what a great chance this would be to pull a really fantastic team together. Besides the clear influence of Slim Aarons photography, we found the look for the series hair styles in magazines from 1969, sewing pattern sketches featuring drawings of women from the '60s, along with pins on Pinterest and a wide range of photographs from the era. Each character and actor had their own reference points that built their look, and we put together extensive lookbooks for each one. Palm Royale is set on the cusp of the 1970s in Florida, so the older women's looks were more oriented toward the 1960s, whereas Kristen and some of the other younger women were already looking forward to the 1970s. e hair styles varied depending on what they were wearing, including more formal and polished styles for the many fancy balls and events in the show. Continued on Page 44 Continued on Page 44 L-R: Leslie Bibb as Dinah Donahue and Dominic Burgess as Grayman