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Paul Tazewell, the costume designer for the Wicked films, defended his decision to have Cynthia Erivo wear the now-viral “sex cardigan”

Erivo’s Elphaba wears the chunky knit cardigan in the Wicked: For Good 's intimate “As Long as You’re Mine” sequence alongside Jonathan Bailey’s Fiyero

“I see my work as a costume designer to be one of a storyteller, and I'm telling a silent story,” Tazewell explained

Paul Tazewell is pulling back the curtain on what inspired Elphaba’s “sex cardigan” in Wicked: For Good .

As soon as the long-awaited sequel hit the big screen, fans couldn’t help but obsess over the woolly cardigan that Cynthia Erivo wears during the film’s sensual “As Long as You’re Mine” sequence alongside Jonathan Bailey ’s Fiyero.

While some fans had mixed

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