In the 1960s, when Robert Redford began to take off as an actor, he made a home in Utah to put some distance between himself and Hollywood. Two decades later, he began overseeing the film festival now known as Sundance, naming it after the Sundance Institute, which he founded in 1981 to bolster independent filmmaking.
Through the festival, Mr. Redford, who died on Tuesday, had a direct role in kick-starting the careers of many of today’s top actors and directors. He also had an indirect hand in shaping celebrity style and putting the local clothing stores of Sundance’s longtime home, Park City, Utah, on the map.
Over the decades, the festival, which is held in January, became a venue where showbiz movers and shakers could be seen in their wintry Western best: shearling coats, fur, cowboy hats, beanies, scarves, flannel shirts, denim and all sorts of boots.
The attire was mostly of a different genre than the finery stars wore on awards show red carpets and to other prominent film festivals in glamorous destinations like Cannes, in the South of France, or Venice, said Kate Young, a stylist in New York who has dressed Dakota Johnson and Julianne Moore for Sundance appearances. “This was a film festival where everyone kind of went as themselves,” she said.
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