LONDON — German men’s tailor Egon Brandstetter and his business partner Marc Straub never expected to be the unsung fashion heroes of Todd Field’s third feature film, “Tár.”
The film starts with Cate Blanchett’s character Lydia Tár, the primary female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and an EGOT recipient, being fitted for a bespoke shirt dress and suit on the Egon Brandstetter atelier by Brandstetter himself.
“A location scout got here two weeks before shooting [in November 2021] and said they might be doing a movie, but he was not allowed to say what it was. It was a young German guy and we didn’t comprehend it was Hollywood,” Brandstetter told WWD over Zoom, with Straub sitting next to him.
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