HOLYOKE ― When “Wicked: For Good” premieres in New York tonight, a Holyoke designer will share the spotlight with a bit of local history.

Joseph Charles, owner of Paper City Fabrics and a fashion designer, created a gown for “Oz” historian Tori Calamito to wear at the event — a modern nod to Holyoke’s textile past, where Skinner Silk once supplied costumes for the original 1939 “Wizard of Oz.”

Iconic dress, a new twist

This is the second time Charles and Calamito have teamed up. Last year, they wowed crowds with a pink Glinda-inspired gown at the Los Angeles premiere of “Wicked.”

This year, Charles and Calamito are honoring Dorothy Gale’s famous blue gingham dress with a twist: something fresh, simple, classic and old Hollywood.

“I didn’t want to copy Dorothy’s dress exactly,” he said

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