Look of the Week: Glenn Close and her six-foot impersonator demand a double take

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Professional shapeshifter Alexis Stone loves conjuring celebrities from beyond the grave. For Halloween, the performance and makeup artist morphed into Micheal Jackson. A few weeks earlier he embodied the late fashion designer Thierry Mugler. But the inspiration for Stone’s latest prosthetic metamorphosis wasn’t just alive — she was standing right next to him.

Glenn Close is a familiar muse for Stone, who impersonated her in costume as the “101 Dalmatians” character Cruella de Vil in 2023. On Monday night, the actor was dwarfed by her uncanny counterpart at the “All’s Fair” Season 2 premiere in New York. “I think seeing a six-foot man impersonate you is quite an out-of-body experience,” Stone said in a phone call. “It was ironically Glenn who was reassuring me, rather than me reassuring Glenn.” It was the first time Stone had come face-to-face with someone he was impersonating. He called it a “visual glitch.”

It really was a Glenn diagram, with clear overlaps: both were dressed in near-identical custom Matières Fécales looks inspired by the brand’s September runway — a brand Stone said had “Cruella mannerisms.” Close wore a coat dress made of Burkina Faso fabric, while Stone was dressed in the corresponding blazer and skirt. Both had the same icy-white shade of bob, not to mention their matching blush placement, lip shade and pinched smize to the camera.

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Unlike Close, Stone is not part of the “All’s Fair” cast. The stunt was commissioned by the show’s director Ryan Murphy, also behind other costume-driven TV series like “American Horror Story,” “The Beauty” and “American Love Story.” “If there’s anyone that was going to help facilitate this, it was Ryan Murphy,” said Stone. “He really understands the complexities of bringing these characters to life.”

These kinds of headline-grabbing appearances have become Stone’s raison d’être and a key part of this business model. After making a name for himself online for his full-body transmogrifications, Stone caught the attention of the fashion community. In 2022, renegade designer Demna — another kind of stunt master with a subversive reverie for celebrity culture — discovered Stone while creative director at Balenciaga and sat him front row at his March show in Paris dressed as Robin Williams’ 1993 film character, Mrs. Doubtfire. Stone’s arrival as the pudgy matron instantly went viral. Since then, he has attended several Balenciaga shows before Demna moved to Gucci, plus runways for Jean Paul Gautlier, Diesel and Boss — though never dressed as himself. No detail is too small for Stone and his team to re-create –– from custom-made contact lenses to nail the perfect iris shade, bespoke dentures and fragrances that get him into character.

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At Paris Fashion Week in March, Stone upgraded from VIP guest to runway model after he walked the Matières Fécales show. The collection, titled “The One Percent,” was billed as a critique of the bourgeois class. Stone was dressed as an aesthetically conscious conservative housewife with a crisp button-down shirt, A-line skirt, peroxide blowout and fake facelift sutures . As well as designing his own makeup, Stone also created the grisly post-op prosthetics worn by the other models.

The budget required for these lifelike recreations is similar to that of a traditional TV show’s costume department, reaching even as high as six-figures he told CNN in 2025 . As a sign of the times, Stone’s transformations live primarily on social media — an expensive investment in virality. But even though these moments feel distinctly modern, the fact Stone’s prosthetics are real and not AI-generated already makes his work a dying art. “People’s brains are adjusting very quickly to seeing artificial visuals,” said Stone, who added that he feels an urgency to platform the physical craft. “The future of practical effects is really up in the air right now.”

“I really love making the impossible possible,” he continued. “Glenn is number 22 or 23 when it comes to the (number of my) transformations. I keep a little bit of all of them in my personality.”

编者按： “每周最佳造型”是一个定期系列，旨在剖析过去七天中最受关注的穿搭，内容涵盖好的、坏的和丑陋的造型。

专业变身师亚历克西斯·斯通（Alexis Stone）热衷于“召唤”已故名人。万圣节期间，这位表演化妆师化身为迈克尔·杰克逊。几周前，他还扮演了已故时装设计师蒂埃里·穆勒（Thierry Mugler）。但斯通最新变身的灵感来源并非仅仅是活着的人——她当时就站在他身边。

格伦·克洛斯是斯通的灵感缪斯，2023年，他曾身着克洛斯的戏服，扮演《101斑点狗》中的库伊拉·德·维尔。周一晚，在纽约举行的《人人公平》第二季首映礼上，斯通与这位身高惊人的“克洛斯模仿者”面对面，显得格外娇小。“我觉得看到一个六英尺高的男人模仿自己，感觉就像灵魂出窍一样，”斯通在电话中说道，“讽刺的是，是格伦在安慰我，而不是我安慰格伦。”这是斯通第一次与他模仿的对象面对面。他称之为“视觉错觉”。

这简直就是格伦的风格图，而且重合度极高：两人都穿着几乎一模一样的Matières Fécales定制服装，灵感来自该品牌九月的时装秀——斯通曾说这个品牌“有点像库伊拉”。克洛斯身穿一件布基纳法索面料的连衣裙式外套，而斯通则穿着与之相配的西装外套和半身裙。两人都留着同样的冰白色波波头，更不用说她们的腮红位置、唇色以及对着镜头露出的那种似曾相识的微笑了。

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与格伦·克洛斯不同，克里斯汀·斯通并非《一切公平》剧组的成员。这次特技是由该剧导演瑞恩·墨菲策划的，他此前还执导过《美国恐怖故事》、《美女与野兽》和《美国爱情故事》等其他以服装造型为特色的电视剧。“如果说谁能促成此事，那非瑞恩·墨菲莫属，”斯通说道，“他非常了解如何将这些角色栩栩如生地呈现在观众面前。”

这种引人注目的亮相已成为斯通存在的意义，也是他商业模式的关键组成部分。凭借全身变装在网上走红后，斯通引起了时尚界的关注。2022年，特立独行的设计师德姆纳（Demna）——另一位对名人文化抱有颠覆性幻想的特技大师——在担任巴黎世家创意总监期间发现了斯通，并安排他身着罗宾·威廉姆斯1993年电影《窈窕淑女》（Mrs. Doubtfire）中的角色服装，坐在自己3月份巴黎时装秀的前排。斯通以这位身材丰腴的老妇人的形象亮相，瞬间在网络上疯传。此后，在德姆纳转投古驰之前，斯通曾多次出席巴黎世家的时装秀，也曾为让·保罗·高缇耶、迪赛和博斯等品牌走秀——尽管从未以本人身份出现。对于斯通和他的团队来说，没有哪个细节是小到不能重现的——从定制的隐形眼镜到完美还原虹膜颜色，从定制的假牙到让他进入角色状态的香水。

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三月份的巴黎时装周上，斯通从VIP嘉宾摇身一变，成为T台模特，为Matières Fécales走秀。该系列名为“百分之一”，旨在批判资产阶级。斯通身着考究的保守派家庭主妇装扮：利落的衬衫、A字裙、漂染的蓬松发型，以及仿拉皮手术的缝合线。除了亲自设计妆容，斯通还制作了其他模特佩戴的逼真术后假体。

这些栩栩如生的特效所需的预算与传统电视剧的服装部门预算相当，甚至高达六位数。斯通在2025年接受CNN采访时表示。作为时代的标志，斯通的特效变身主要在社交媒体上传播——这是一项昂贵的病毒式营销投资。尽管这些瞬间极具现代感，但斯通的假体是真实的而非人工智能生成的，这使得他的工作正逐渐走向衰落。“人们的大脑正在迅速适应观看人工合成的视觉效果，”斯通说道，并补充说他感到迫切需要推广这种实体特效技艺。“实景特效的未来现在真的充满变数。”

“我真的很喜欢化不可能为可能，”他继续说道。“格伦是我所有角色转变中的第22或23个。我的性格中保留了所有这些角色的某些特质。”