Elvis & Nixon

“People presume that because of the relatively small number of women who are directors, when a woman directs it's a sexist set,” says Liza Johnson, the director of Elvis & Nixon. The very funny movie depicts the actual meeting of the King and the 37th president and stars Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon.

Costume designer Peggy Schnitzer delved into old news footage, magazines and photographs of the sixties and early seventies from Washington D. C.