Friday, January 09, 2026
Paul Tazewell Reveals Wicked Costume Design Secrets That Demand a Rewatch
Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com: Audiences around the globe can marvel at Paul Tazewell's talent as a costume designer, thanks to the recent home entertainment release of Wicked: For Good. But Broadway fans have been privy to Tazewell's creations long before his historic 2025 Best Costume Design Oscar win for the first Wicked film. A two-time Tony winner, Tazewell is behind Hamilton's 18th-century silhouettes and Death Becomes Her's glamorous, illusion-heavy gowns. His other Tony-nominated works include The Color Purple, In the Heights, Memphis, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ain't Too Proud, MJ and Suffs.
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I love how Paul Tazewell focuses so hard on the silhouette and what each characters silhouettes make the audience feel. I was so happy to hear that Elphaba’s outfits in the second movie, Wicked: For Good, was all recycled from the 1st movie, I think that it really symbolizes how she isn’t pretending to be someone else, and that this new version of her self has always been there, and shows how she is finding herself throughout this second movie. Something that I love about Galind’s costumes in the second movie is that each of her dresses has complicated lines and designs that seemingly never connect and that wrap around each other, this, to m,e reflects Galinda’s feeling of losing herself to the temptation of fame and power, and how she is fighting in the inner fight of doing what is right. I am very excited to continue to follow his work, and I can’t wait to see what he does next!
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