Portraits of a Swan: The Crafts | FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans | FX

Costume Designer Lou Eyrich and Production Designer Mark Ricker break down how they evoked the exquisite glamour of 1960’s New York City through the sets and wardrobe of Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans. Watch new episodes of FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans Wednesdays on FX. Stream next day on Hulu.
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FX’s FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans tells the story of acclaimed writer Truman Capote, once a confidante to society’s most elite women, whom he nicknamed “the swans.” However, his act of betrayal effectively destroyed those relationships, banished him from high society and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.
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Portraits of a Swan: The Crafts | FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans | FX
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[@miaward5525]

I see this show taking home an Emmy. Amazing acting, cast, hair and makeup!

[@laminage]

La Cote Basque, Elaine's and The Oak Room were probably three of the hottest restaurants for the Ladies Who Lunch back in the day.

[@nervousamerican1184]

Tom Holland completely transforms into Truman. He deserves an Emmy.

[@lulugoulart5014]

Such a wonderful glamorous time. The acting is supreme, I am in awe with the show. Even though I was expecting that coming from Ryan Murphy's being so brilliant.

[@becauseingridsaidso]

this is how you get me to watch a show! with fabulous costumes, hair & makeup, and set designs! 😍

[@dr.aniasara7038]

Some of my very favorite actors in this film.

[@michellewal8219]

Mr. Collins?

[@nikkil764]

I remember my mom and I pouring over Vogue or T and C magazines marveling at the clothes worn by Babe Paley, CZ Guest, and Lee Radziwell. My personal favorite then and now is Dina Merrill. She was such a vision and always perfectly dressed.

[@traceymanzano4015]

I the W magazine!

[@isabellasoliman8691]

Dina Merril was the daughter of Marjorie Merryweather Post Hutton ! Cousin of Barbara Hutton.

[@dawni5365]

I’m obsessed with this story!!! This is my first Ryan Murphy show I’ve watched

[@blugreen123]

I highly recommend the first season of Feud if you haven't seen it yet!

[@wolfdudercp]

This has been a captivating show for me. Love the time period. It is definitely up there with MadMen. Love the attention to detail.

[@NewYorkNadia]

Phenomenal performances. I adore Truman and Hollander’s portrayal is magnificent. Bravo to all! 💯💯💯

[@blairbrownie1223]

Calista really carried herself as the ultimate snob. She just conveyed that look, and it was pretty amazing

[@AbsoluteRangatira]

Amazing! I think Calista definitely captures the essence of Lee Raziwell

[@househeadericmd]

They all look so incredible in the show. Perfection!!

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

I have very mixed feelings about this topic. In the mid to late 1970s, I was borderline obsessed with stories about the glamorous, high society life of New York, Hollywood and Europe, but I was a teenager from the sticks who "read too much and watched too much tv." In college, I fell in with a crowd of similar dreamers (sadly, dreamers, but not doers) and we tried to grab bits and pieces of the glamour with trips to Atlanta, going to Neumann Marcus at Lenox Square Mall, spending our pittance, carefully saved, to buy some luxury. Well, I am much older now and experience has changed me, though not always for the better. While I have never been friends with talented writers and artists, never "did lunch" with the high society leaders, I have encountered several bitchy queens who thought way too well of themselves (they never learned the difference between being bitchy and being witty, or that there even is a difference), and the women I have lunched with, when not being subtly catty about their neighbors, talked about their illness of the week, or current popular tv shows (the poor person's opera), and I have learned this: apart from the huge amounts of money, designer clothes and alledged glamour, there is little difference between Cap others swans and the Jr. League of any small town throughout America. From the videos I have seen, there is no doubt that the production is first rate - actresses, script, sets and costumes, etc., so please don't misconstrue this post as a criticism of the show. It is simply that I look back on who I was then and then who I am now (not necessarily a change for the better) and,...what? Mourn the young, shallow youth, dreaming of lunch at La Cote Basque and how beautiful my life would be? Like most people, life has taught me lessons that I did not set out to learn. Please pardon my self pitying ramblings, I am old and I don't sleep well. But I have to go now, the people catering my pity party are here😉

[@carolannemckenzie3849]

I would come to your pity party! You sound very interesting. I just returned from Paris yesterday, where I had a drink at The Ritz. It was beautifully opulent but les patrons didn't look particularly happy - especially the rich, pampered women. Or maybe they couldn't smile with all that BOTOX 😁

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

@@carolannemckenzie3849 Thank you. My mother, in an effort to prepare me for the "real world," whatever that is in fact, would tell me that the rich and famous are no different from the rest of us and they could be just as unhappy as everyone else. In my youth naivete, I did not believe her (it's very human to want to believe that a "perfect" life exists and it can be ours). Well, life has taught me, and continues to do so, differently. But that's life -we can laugh or we can cry (usually we wind up doing both). But anyway, you'll be welcome to my pity party; other guests include Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde (without that chaotic Lord Douglas!), Rosalind Russell, Stephen Fry and Sandy Toksvig (along with many panelists from the show QI.) Dress is based on your imagination and music will be a blend of '70s and '80s pop,, disco, big band, "New Age" and classical European, with a blend of what I believe is now called "World Music" from through out history.😉

[@LannieLord]

Do you wear any fragrances ? They are my only LUXURY in life. I am working class "poor" but spend a good deal on high end fragrances. They make me feel REALLy rich. @@jeraldbaxter3532

[@Jays6926]

You sound refined and witty. As a young dreamer, I hope to be more realistic but never give up the dreams.

[@PoseyLane]

Emmy winner for sure! Between the cast, makeup, wardrobe, and sets. The entire team are winners!

[@LBGirl1988]

Quick observation- ladies never checked or groomed themselves at the table or in public. It was the difference between chic and gauche.

[@dawnreneegmail]

True that, a compact at the table maybe for a sneak peak but they would NEVER powder a nose at table. 60s hippy here and Ryan should have consulted one of us ol farts on that gaffe👵🏻

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

Hats are back❤

[@kellyinCT09]

This is so good all around

[@dmhollowell]

This series was perfection. The acting, wardrobe, makeup, set designs - all of it. I enjoyed every minute of every episode. Tom Hollander was spot on as Truman Capote. Can't wait for season 3

[@heatherspence3848]

I love all of the behind the scenes content. I appreciate it very much. I love the FX channel, Hulu, and I love this KZbin channel!

[@patriciahughes9906]

What a glorious ensemble

[@maddie23459]

You never disappoint! Awesome video! 😀

[@cherylb2008]

I look forward to seeing the episodes

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

Demi has done a few characters set in the 60's. The movie Flawless with Michael Caine is worth seeing.

[@Jude74]

I love the coat they put Calista or Lee in the black-and-white ball. I just think she looks so elegant in it. Molly looked a.k.a. Joanne Amazing as well. They all did, but those are just my two favorites.

[@rick0e295]

Here's to the Ladies who Lunch on the GRAND scale! Wonderful interpretation of a world now Gone With the Wind. Like GWTW, this is award worthy 👏. 🎉 Whatever happened to CLASS? Money can't buy CLASS, but CLASS is always in STYLE! 🏰

[@Diamondelle84]

This is what I was looking forward to 😉

[@maria.d3157]

Maravilhoso! ❤❤❤

[@tallspicy]

I would have asked to keep or buy the pieces!!!

[@jontaedouglas7244]

Most is lent from private collectors, I’m sure they wouldn’t be willing to sell lol

[@traceymanzano4015]

Such an excellent show!

[@reidx512]

Oh how I wish I had be born then and appointed to all of this glamour...I love this show...When I was in college (SMITH), a few of their relatives, nieces were enrolled. The stories they would tell us, were amazing...(I always wear my strand of pearls...ALWAYS lol)

[@ThatGirlHoney]

what

[@reidx512]

WHAT? @@ThatGirlHoney

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Yes, glamour is nice and captivating and beautiful but also that era in american culture was sexist and racist and homophobic - so would it be worth it? Plus, this chic glamour was only reserved for the ''elites''

[@Emptynestballerina1]

So well done

[@mztabatha]

Love Love Love it all!

[@ccgreene1]

I wish we still had the grandeur of yesteryear. Fashion and clothing in 2024 is dreadful!

[@Pinkranger87]

I love it

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

There have been stylish periods in all of human eras. I see this as very similar to the opulance of the Paris salons, where Liszt or Chopin might play a piece - perhaps even a new piece they wrote. There's no reason not to believe that style may return again.

[@remsan03]

I admire the set design. In case of Babe Payley's New York apartment, they nailed it perfect. If you see the real photograph of her home, even the drapes (that brown with the flowers pattern that covers the wall and the chaise is exactly the same). They got the artworks and paintings right too. That Boy Leading the Horse by Picasso was the pride of the Payleys. Decorating the Payleys and the Guests' summer estate must have eaten half of the production budget! These people didn't life small. One remarks about Babe's house was that it was overwhelming. That it was even difficult to find the bathroom because there were flowers everywhere. So many of them.

[@susansnow1976]

I thought that it was incredibly ugly.

[@aprilmorgan3456]

👏👏👏💯 Love it. It's like really something fantastic. I draw the movie the TV show whatever I love it.

[@user-he1hz3gv3p]

Bravo

[@SuperClairezee]

Bring hats and gloves back!

[@MissPerriwinkle]

calista needs a full face makeover/mask to resemble la Lee..

[@LannieLord]

She really does not look like her...... As another fan mentioned: She would be good as a younger Gloria Vanderbilt.

[@pgaede]

Having trouble finding season 2 on Hulu!? Anyone?

[@moryan6447]

I did because i discovered the default setting is Feud, season 1, Bette and Joan. I had to toggle to season 2. They don't make it easy. I hope this helps

[@user-of6zw5ef2m]

If I was an actress on that show I would want to keep all those bags shoes and clothes

[@lillianmcgrew217]

Interesting

[@robertheneks3882]

❤️

[@susanpolastaples9688]

W.onder if any of the Swans wore Anne Lowe

[@gerrittlighthart]

Listening to Tom Hollander switch from his real voice to Truman's is dizzying.

[@johnjanota7724]

it is said that homosexuality wasnt accepted mostly until this century. truman was as flaming as can be yet he captured the hearts of the most powerful and beautiful women of that century. im sure if their husbands were against "the image" of being with him the swans would not have been. glamour was and always will defy sexuality

[@LannieLord]

It wasn't until the 1990s that gays were STARTING to be accepted. Well, in like the suburbs.

[@villageview3135]

🦢🚬

[@johnny-vu6rl]

i beg your pardon..

[@alfredbonnabel7022]

Demi Moore's character doesn't look a thing like Ann Woodward. She was a dirty blonde and buxom...she wasn't as angular as Demi is.

[@imcnagpc2]

Demi and some of the other ladies could barely move their foreheads let alone their eyebrows. Botox wasn't available back then,👇👇

[@robertbernier4101]

It's terrible to see actors in costume but out of character speaking about a project. Very unprofessional

[@clarastallworth845]

@robertbernier4101 not at all; it's called "behind the scenes" for a reason! The actors are explaining their individual characters WHILE in costume. They explain the who, what, why and how they are from their perspective.

[@robertbernier4101]

@clarastallworth845 there's nothing wrong with showing how the costumes are made and designed and even showing the actors getting ready. Behind the scenes stuff is great and very interesting. But to do an interview fully in costume and makeup and out of character is jarring and ruins the magic. It is not something that is traditionally done. It's tacky and unprofessional.

[@robertbernier4101]

@@clarastallworth845 I understand that you would think it's acceptable if you have consumed a steady diet of popular Amuracan culture.

[@methaphisic]

All of these marbled face actresses trying to convey emotion in a vapid, emotionally stunted and arrested development cafe society in a decade best remembered by housewives domestic appliances commercials might be the best type casting ever.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

No, they are not trying, they ARE conveying emotions as all of them are good actresses whether you like this show or not. Also, what's wrong with being a ''housewife'', why speak of them so derogatively, aren't they people just as you are? You don't like that ''cafe society'' - fine, but what these actresses and ''housewives'' did to you, why so mean?

[@LannieLord]

She's in Truman's next book. @@yevgeniyaleshchenko849

[@clarastallworth845]

@methaphisic they're less like housewives, more like socialites. Some, like Babe Paley and Lee Raziwill, were born into money and taught from a very young age to attract powerful men like Bill Paley, etc. Others, like Ann Woodward, came from relative poverty, and managed to marry into money. Remember, this was right before the women's liberation ("women's lib") movement took hold, and the Swans were never seen as equal partners to husbands.