Elvis: The King of Fashion

A marvel and celebration that contains interviews of those intimately involved in the legacy of an intensely shy and disadvantaged boy from the wrong side of Tupelo, Mississippi who went on to become one of the most idolized and imitated solo performer of all time.Elvis Presleylife was the ultimate rags to riches story, and it was the rags, as much as the riches that drove him, defined him, and made him the global icon he is today.Born in a shack in AmericaDeep South in 1935, to impoverished parents struggling in the wake of the Great Depression, he sprung from a life of deprivation to one of international fame and untold wealth all before he was twenty.Brought up dirt-poor, but surrounded by love and music from birth, Elvis was infused with the sounds of gospel and the raw, hard-life blues of the cotton country splantation workers.And when the family radio brought country singers, crooners and spiritual quartets to his young ears, his musical DNA was fully-formed.Elvisboarding pass for the rocket-ship to

Austin Butler on what to wear playing him in the 2022 movie, Elvis.* Award-wining producer director, Steve Binder who resurrected Elviscareer and put him in that black leather suit for the 1968 Comeback Special.* Butch and Kim Polston, who maintain Elvislegacy, recreating his spectacular 1970s Vegas jumpsuits, including those worn by Butler.Elvis: The King of Fashion marvels at how an intensely shy and disadvantaged boy from the wrong side of Tupelo, Mississippi, went from homespun to Hollywood in the blink of an eye and became the most popular, successful, idolized and imitated solo performer of all time.Most of all, it regards the rollercoaster life of Elvis the man through a fashion lens as he strode like a colossus through the world of showbusiness, dressed like The King he never quite believed he was. [Publisher's Text]