Mr. Woodcock's style

[couch]

A lot of press on Daniel Day-Lewis's meticulous preparation for his role as Reynolds Woodcock in Phantom Thread focuses on what the character would do as a designer of women's clothes. This Vanity Fair piece speaks to his building of the wardrobe for the character himself. Not a lot of surprises in the sourcing: A&S, Drakes, Budd, Gammarelli. But some interesting notices of how he wore and combined garments—a propos Michael's often cited assertions that it's the man who makes the clothes.

Apart from a few scenes in which jacket collars don't stay glued to Day-Lewis's very mobile neck (a very tall and thin man, he frequently thrusts his neck downward to engage with someone or slouch in a chair), what do members think of Woodcock's style? (This is a question quite apart from what one thinks about the character as a human being.)

The photo referred to in the Vanity Fair piece of the actor's father, the poet C. Day Lewis, with W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender at an outdoor cafe, forms the spread at pages 156-157 of A Style is Born, the A&S coffee-table book edited by Graydon Carter. Day-Lewis pere's bow tie knot is a precursor of the somewhat more exquisite knots of Woodcock in the film.

[old henry]

The acting was outstanding and superb all around in Phantom Thread. DDL has a rounded back. The “cutter” should have noticed this immediately. The back needed to be splayed open 1/2” to 5/8”. As a tailor I noticed DDLs round back way back when he was in The Boxer in 1997 or so.