Thoroughly
Modern Emily
In Apple T V+’s new costume
drama Dickinson, one of
America’s renowned poets is
radically reimagined.
TO BE SOMEBODY
HAILEE STEINFELD PLAYS A FEISTY
YOUNG EMILY DICKINSON.
When we first see Emily
Dickinson in writer and
executive producer Alena Smith’s new
show, she isn’t yet the reclusive legend
she would later become. As inhabited
by Hailee Steinfeld, she’s in her 20s,
with only the first sparks of her poetic
genius flaring out of her fingertips.
But she is wearing a version of
the legendary white dress that would
come to stand as a symbol for her
eccentricities—this one a cotton lawn
gown, pin-tucked and hand-pleated.
That’s pretty much the only
conventional thing about America’s
most famous female poet in Dickinson,
a thoroughly psychedelic FASHION>74
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