The Movies' Best-Loved Costumes

Nicole Kidman as Satine in Moulin Rouge!
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Nicole Kidman as Satine in Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Star of the Moulin Rouge night club, the dancer-prostitute Satine lounges on a swing above the crowd. Her circus-aerialist bustier is fronted with a bow-tie bodice; a top hat frames her pale face. Production and costume designer Catherine Martin, the wife of director Baz Luhrmann, gorgeously realized this dream of love and lust set to pop music.

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