Give the People Sparkles: Inside Mariah Carey’s Vegas Residency Wardrobe

On New Year’s Day, while on vacation in the Dominican Republic, Mariah Carey posted a video of herself, feet dangling in her hot tub, dressed in a shimmering silver gown. Days later she was back on Instagram with more photos of the dress, but this time she was draped in the water, gown still on, in the kind of fully fabulous diva move one can only hope for from Mariah Carey. As the story goes, she loved the dress so much that she asked her team to reach out to the man behind it, Michael Costello, and see if he might be up for creating her wardrobe for her Las Vegas residency, “The Butterfly Returns.” “Of course, I had to pinch myself when I heard that,” Costello says, over the phone from Los Angeles in the midst of packing for his final Mariah trip to Vegas. “I was just blown away.” The show, which opened on Valentine’s Day and closes this weekend, features five looks, all done by Costello, with the exception of an Adrienne Landau feather coat he selected for Carey. The drama begins in a black, long-sleeve, hand-beaded, appliquéd bodysuit with a sheer black chiffon skirt covered in black Swarovski crystals,

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