Nudie Cohn and Elvis PresleyNudie Cohn designed Elvis' famous gold suit featured on the album cover of "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong."
Nudie Cohn and Roy Rogers
Nudie Cohn and Gram Parsons in his Flying Burrito Brothers Nudie suitAs the 1960's were winding down, Nudie Cohn's career took on a new dimension when he made a suit for Gram Parsons. An article by Elyssa East in the Oxford American magazine provides some details about the creation of Nudie's most renowned suit:
“The 1960s were coming to a close when rising country rock musician Gram Parsons posed next to Nudie Cohn, the celebrated Western-wear designer more than three times his senior. Raeanne Rubenstein shot their portrait for Show: The Magazine of the Arts at Nudie’s Los Angeles workshop. Over a smooth bare chest and midriff, the twenty-something Parsons wore the suit Nudie designed for him for the cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers’ debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin. Made of white cavalry twill, it was embroidered with crudely ren
