Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick and her team had to reproduce a large number of Liberace's iconic stage outfits for this film. These included a copy of Liberace's 16-foot-long white virgin fox fur coat which, though made of synthetic fur, was nonetheless, like the real coat, studded with $100,000 worth of Austrian crystals. The originals were too valuable to alter to fit star Michael Douglas, and were used only as set dressing for Liberace's walk-in closet. Many were also extremely heavy due to the large quantities of rhinestones: each original suit weighted upwards of 60 pounds.