Tag: John Badham

Saturday Night Fever: John Travolta’s White Suit

Posted by – November 16, 2009

For what is certainly the best remembered costume in Saturday Night Fever (1977), John Travolta as Tony Manero wears a brilliant white 3-piece suit to dazzle the disco dance floor. His look defined an era: smart, yet somehow scruffy; classy yet somehow cheap.

Saturday Night Fever_John Travolta_white suit train.bmp-1

To keep costs down the film’s director John Badham insisted costume designer Patrizia von Brandenstein procure all outfits off the peg and not make them from scratch. Furthermore this added to realism as Tony could never have afforded bespoke.
More…


© 2009-2010 Clothes on Film All Rights Reserved