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The White Lotus with Costume Designer, Alex Bovaird · The Art of Costume Podcast

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Supposed to be like a four season.
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So there's supposed to be somewhat formal that you're in
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Hawaii. So there's the relax, relax
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linen. And you know, I remember when I
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first went to Hawaii, I couldn't believe that all the guys were
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wearing aloha shirts. Really they really wear Hawaiian
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shirts. That's a real thing.
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Hello and welcome to the art of costume.
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Blogcast it is I lowered Spencer Williams.
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I could say that because Elizabeth is not joining us
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today so I could call myself Lord.
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If I want to this week, sorry Elizabeth.
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I'm sure she's listening right now.
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And she's pounding, her fists together ready to fight next
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time we speak. So yeah, it's just me this week
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but we have a An incredible episode this week you are going
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to love it. We are talking about the White
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Lotus. My new favorite show.
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I know the show is not very new but I'm new to the world.
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I just watched it for some reason last week, so I know I'm
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really behind but the costumes were so good.
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I was dying of laughter this entire show also.
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So anxious spacing around my bedroom, as I was watching it,
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we have Jennifer Coolidge. Who just delivered some Solid
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lines Sydney, Sweeney looking so good.
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Our mind in those pink linen suits looking a little bit of a
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mess. There's a lot to talk about
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here, but before we dive into it I'll give you a little summary
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before we dive behind the Wardrobe.
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So the White Lotus is about the exploits, a various guests and
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employees at a tropical resort over the span of a week.
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So now it's time to dive behind a wardrobe.
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This was brought to us by director Mike White and costume
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designer. Alex bovard, you have no Alex
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from her work on bad education, the unforgivable, The Spy Who
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dumped me. Sorry for your loss, The
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Foreigner and the brand new, Jordan Peele film.
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Nope. Which you have to see is so good
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and I'm so excited, the show was nominated for a million and two
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Emmys, and one of them being for costume design.
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So, I knew immediately I had to talk to Alex about these
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costumes everyone. I'm so happy to introduce Alex
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bovard, Alex, welcome to the studio, thank you, Spencer,
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thanks for having me here, but surely, it's really nice to meet
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you as, well, all the way from Iceland to its is crazy.
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In the rare sunny day here in Reykjavik, I love that.
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So when I was getting ready actually for this interview, You
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I was watching The White Lotus and I was like, I really want to
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talk to the costume designer from the White Lotus as I was
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doing that. I was on the way to the movies
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to go. See.
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Nope. And I got an email actually and
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they're like, hey, do you want to talk to the costume designer
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for White Lotus? And nope.
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It was the craziest coincidence. So, wow.
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So excited when you called me and I'm the one today, right?
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I just put into the universe first, congratulations.
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Relations on the Emmy nomination.
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How does that feel? Oh, thanks.
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Spencer is pretty cool. I think it's pretty cool.
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I found out in the morning and my husband and I were like
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looking online for life. Wait, because somebody called me
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and congratulated me and we looked online.
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We were like, wait, does this really mean we've been
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nominated? Like, what?
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What does this mean? Like, how do we know this is
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real? Huh?
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It was so it is a bit. It is.
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Is a bit strange. But really, really nice.
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And really, I'm really happy for the people in my team.
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Who contributed so strongly, to this very special project in
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Hawaii. So yeah, happy for everybody,
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right. It must feel like such a surreal
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moment and it's such a packed category.
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This year. There's some really amazing
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shows this year so that must feel good to ya.
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TV is just like it's like open open season for the last few
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years, there's so many good television show.
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Is because of the, you know, it's streaming Wars and, you
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know, the battle for attention. And then I feel feel that as an
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audience, we just have been gulping up television shows they
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dropped and we consume them. And then another one.
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Yes, I'm guilty of this. I've constantly need to be fed.
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Well, we would just show up, you know, every Monday and watch one
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episode. And now we're ready for more
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after You know week or so we're ready for the next one.
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So yeah it does does it is a full full deck out there, right?
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Well, I'm so excited to dive into the White Lotus.
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This is one of those shows that you just knew you were going to
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love. So I'll admit I was like to
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watch it because I just knew I was like I'm gonna love this
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show. I have to get through these
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other shows and I came back to it and it was so worth the wait.
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I don't know why I made myself. Wait it's so beautiful and
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colorful. And somehow joyous, but also
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like non-stop anxiety. I'm like, pacing around my
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bedroom when I'm watching it, but you're like the costumes are
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just so beautiful. Oh, it's like a real crazy
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thing. So I first just want to dive
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into just Inspirations for the White Lotus.
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You know the characters come off as very rich very vacationy,
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lots of florals. How did you start with this
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where you just walking around hotels and just taking pictures
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of people? That would have been great?
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Great. But sadly, no was not sent on
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that that research trip, but it's, yeah, I thought funny, you
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say that about why Lotus? Because I just did season 2 and
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Mike described it as like a fever dream.
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Like how do you approach it as like?
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Yes. It's, you know, he's got stuff
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to say but he's kind he's mostly here to entertain and a and part
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of that is we talked about it, with White Lotus.
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Season 1 as well. Just this creating this, this
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experience that you just really enjoying watching and, you know,
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really getting into the characters, but also just having
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this, you know, fun fun palette to work with, and to inspire you
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and to Aspire to. And we definitely did our
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research but not not in real life, but through Lots, you
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know, really engaging with that. At World of like wealthy,
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vacationers and seeing seeing what they actually were and
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trying to base it in reality and then and then heighten it a bit
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because you know, sometimes people just go on holiday and
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that sweatpants and we definitely don't want to do
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that. We wanted to up the ante and say
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that we like the idea that when you go on holiday, when you go
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on vacation, you are somewhat, putting on a little bit of a
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show. You're imagining.
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How? Want to be when you're on
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holiday. So there's a slight element of
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costuming yourself that we tried to put put in there.
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Like, who am I on holiday and what am I going to pack?
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Right, that's so fascinating. Yeah, it's kind of fun approach
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and also just wanted to we Rift a lot on the colors of Hawaii,
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and the fruits and the flowers. And so there's, you know, mango
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and Lai Chi and, you know, the blue of the ocean.
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And you know pineapple and lots and lots of floral prints, lots
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of lots of vibrant colors and just trade to you know go at go
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all out tropical assault right? Lots of pineapple.
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Yeah I was really taken back by it, just all the prints and the
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colors. I've especially the prince, it
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was like everything you're throwing at us, I was obsessed
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with and the Fabrics. You have a Credible used to
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Fabrics. Can we just dive into all these
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patterns and fabrics? Yeah, well, we did.
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Luckily people can argue against it too much.
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Might, you know, as a costume designer.
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Well my my appetite for Prince knows, no bounds.
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You know, prints and textures - try to paint with a with with a
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paint, the canvas with lots and lots of different textures and
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Princess always something that excites me.
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And I couldn't really no one could really argue that they
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should wear black or gray or, you know, getting any Kickback
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from anybody and my quite the direct to wanted to go there.
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So he wanted to have a lot of fun and really I credit him with
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leaving me alone, which is just as nice.
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But yeah. I mean he would he always wanted
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to see what we were doing but he didn't he And he kind of let me
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he trusted me that I knew what everybody else is wearing so he
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didn't micromanage me to the point where, you know, he knew
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that I had to keep a lot of things in mind.
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So he didn't question question it.
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And trusted that I was thinking of the entire cast when I was
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showing him certain things. And yeah, we wanted a richness
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and a and a diversity in the in the animals and the flowers and
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kind of just went for it and it and it entwined with the
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production design as well. We met and talked about the
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wallpapers and and and it's funny.
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They ended up using a lot of the stuff in the opening credits to.
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So oh yeah. So I know it was a big theme
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that the prince really just took over the whole show.
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Yeah, and also was like most striking to me out of anything
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is the the color palette? So you use because it's such a
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beautifully. Shot so cinematically and the
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costumes, just really stand out at all all the time.
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And sometimes I feel like it really speaks to the different
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characters moods as well. So I was wondering how much of
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that was intentional when you're picking colors?
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Yeah, we did. We went for a, you know, cheery
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Vibe overall and then it was underscored with that like
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creepy music. So it just helped do that, you
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know, juxtaposing with the different with the different.
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Mom's we did I know that we purposefully let Paula be more
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Moody as the as the as the to kind of diverge.
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So her color palette started to get more, you know, she gets,
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she starts to wear black and not trying so hard.
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And so her mood darkens and her clothes, due to the uniforms,
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were devised with the, with the colors to we went for, like
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light, she E and an ocean blue, and aqua and mango orange.
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So we tried to keep them tropical beach, she tropical,
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but also formal kind of, you know, supposed to be like a four
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season. So there's supposed to be
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somewhat formal but then you're in Hawaii.
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So there's the relax, relax linen.
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And you know I remember when I first went to Hawaii, I couldn't
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believe that all the guys were wearing Aloha shirts, only they
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really were Hawaiian shirts. That's a real thing actually
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happens. They, there's one of my
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customers who is working with me said that there's a term, like
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they call it, like, when they're dressing people that I coach,
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they should look Hawaiian business.
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And that means they're wearing an Aloha shirt and a pair of
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slacks. All right?
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Okay, so move here, honestly, to Hawaii, you need to get yourself
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on a plane. And it's really a magical place.
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And the fact that people do walk around in these aloha shirts
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these Hawaiian shirts is is really part of the just
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laid-back sort of Aloha, this like casual magical Spirit.
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That's there. But so we had to put that in the
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uniforms because, you know, people really do.
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That's really part of dressing up.
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In a button shirt is you would you would wear your Aloha shirt.
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Well, speaking of the Aloha shirt Armand, really is the
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spitting image of what you're talking about except though,
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sometimes he's very dressed up. I love this character.
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I thought his costumes are actually some of the most
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fascinating in a series, which is saying a lot because there's
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a lot of kooky characters out there.
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I love what you did a farm on, because I mean, maybe cuz I'm
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just a costume designer nerd, but he's clearly wearing linen.
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And it's getting more and more wrinkled throughout the series.
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He's really kind of unraveling a little bit.
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And then we have that finale, where he wears my favorite
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costume. I think it's this getting
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discovered. That's really fun button up
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shirt. And it's kind of faded actually
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a little bit, which is the kind of, you know, he's at the end of
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his life. He doesn't know that yet.
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So, there's just a lot happening if his costume.
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Can we dive into it? Yes.
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Oh yeah. Let's we can talk about his
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death. Sure.
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That spoiler if anyone hasn't seen my folks, we have a spoiler
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at the beginning. So we're past that me we killed
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all moaned in that crazy shirt that he so he spends the whole
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episode in this in this outfit. So sometimes he has the linen
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jacket on top and then at other times he you know through the
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day he's got the jacket off but he dies in the shirt and so we
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wanted it to go. We wanted to go out with a bang.
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This is like a it's it's based on like a vintage Hawaiian shirt
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so that's why it looks a little more.
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You were faded, is that it sort of got this vintage you feel
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like company called reyn Spooner who are Hawaiian and they
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specialize in these vintage prints, and it's just got this
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crazy sea snake. I think that and blue coral, and
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it's just sort of batshit, and of We had to get a lot of them
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and to try and copy the trouble is if you want to kill someone
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off in a printed outfit is it's very difficult to match the
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prints. And so we had to get a lot of
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these shirts and try and line up the sea snakes and exactly the
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same spot. Oh yeah, that's the way
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manufactured. Like the C-SPAN could be all
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over the place. So Mike Annex of filming, make
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it very tricky, unless you have an identical shirt.
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So we spent a lot of time poring over that shirt and making sure
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they had given us a way to pick the craziest shirt for the
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dusting. Really push for it because it's
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really complicated to do print like that.
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But yeah, I love that shirt. You and I'm glad we went for it
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and I'm lucky that my quite loves pink.
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Because yeah my it's my favorite color right?
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I was very happy about that. Two.
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And then his linen suits are just so attractive.
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But again, I love how you like let it get wrinkled up though.
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That that's a cool note. It gets annihilated because you
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know, the last couple episodes he is, you know, it's really
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deteriorating and he's up all night doing drugs, you know?
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So it's important that his sweats into his linen suit and
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then it starts to look kind of ragged so that you can really
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see The Descent. Integration of his mind.
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Also in the disintegration of his clothes and linens are great
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fabric for that because it wrinkles up nice and easy.
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Yeah, it was so fun to see. Let's get into our vacationing
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families, a little bit. First we have the Moss
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baugher's, Nicole and Mark who are just the epitome of Rich
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Elegance. I would say Connie Britton is
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amazing. Then we also have the kids, we
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have Officials say kids during college Quinn, Olivia and Paula,
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they all have such unique wardrobes.
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See each of these characters, it's really fascinating.
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What can you tell me about the Moss Bonkers?
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Well, you know, Connie, Connie plays, Nicole mosbacher and she
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is, you know, the CFO of a company that's similar to goop.
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That's What I was gonna say to that, we, you know, there's a
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little bit of Gwyneth Paltrow in her but also, you know her she's
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not she's she, you know, nobody gets away with a muted palette
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on the White Lotus so she, you know, gets the colorful outfits
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as well. But she, she's someone who kind
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of knows exactly how to dress and, you know, has the right the
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right fabrics for Hawaii, the, you know, the the breathable
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Cotton's and I will wear silk at night and we always thread
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vintage into the clothes. You know, this was shot at the
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beginning of the pandemic, and so, there wasn't a lot of shops
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open. And also, there weren't many,
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like new clothes, because factories hadn't, been making
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them. So I definitely went far and
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wide to pull the costumes together and used a lot of
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second-hand and vintage and things like that to make it too.
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To, you know, to get an assembly of different different outfits.
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And she likes her hats and going to say the hair game is strong
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with her really game. I'm really I was really lucky
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with the cast of White Lotus. They were really, you know,
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willing to go there for the characters and really got into
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the Hawaii of it all and didn't didn't bump against it and she
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has, you know, great hats and sunglasses and she has several
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Eggs, just tote bags for her for her laptop because she's, you
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know, never far away from work. Yeah.
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And the kids are the kids, the queen is kind of a Stoner, you
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know, he's still in high school. He's got this, you know, he
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shops at Zumiez, you like some tie-dye strange t-shirts and he
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spends all Episode in his underwear, he is, and then, he
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sort of has this enlightened moment where he goes kayaking
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with the locals. So, he gets his Mojo and but you
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know, he doesn't really change up.
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What is what is brought because you just packed it but he, he
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dresses up for dinner a little bit because you know, his mom
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would expect him to everybody. We kind of took a little
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license. To we say that everybody gets
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changed for dinner, you know. It was happen when you're on
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holiday but and then the girls that, you know, they're very
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self-assured gen Z. They do a lot of drifting,
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they're a little eco-conscious. So, a lot of their clothes, I
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thrifted, they kind of issue fast fashion, you know, but they
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are typical of the type of girls that they are.
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They really into A branding, but they're very, they're very at
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the same time aware of what they're wearing and try to, you
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know, very carefully, put their outfits together so that they
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seem just thrown thrown together but everything's very well
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thought of. And also they get painted with
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color. Of course, oh yeah.
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II love these two characters. Brittany O'Grady and Sydney
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Sweeney the HBO Queen. They both killed these roles so
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much I can do. Ra costume.
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They were, I was like yeah, that's so good.
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Just seeing the read at the pool.
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It's like a treat. I remember seeing that scene in
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the dailies and seeing how good that actresses were because
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sometimes when you watch dailies, it's a bit dry.
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So you can't really get, you know, you can't really get it.
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But when the performances of that good, you can instantly see
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I you know, because I've done the fittings with them and I was
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really Stag and I thought well this is a great actresses.
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Are you? There were going to be okay.
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A so we have to talk about the patents who I'm like, I don't
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want to talk about these characters.
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That give me so much anxiety, but Shane in the Cornell hat is
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one of my favorite notes from the show to.
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It says so much about the character without saying
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anything at all, we have to dive into this into the newlyweds.
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Yep. They I love the Cornell had to
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was we talked a lot about what college it should be and we
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settled on Cornell. And, you know, he's just that
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kind of kind of bro. Who, who would do that we did?
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We wanted to make sure that well, Jake Lacy.
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Actually, he has a lot to say about clothes and he wanted to
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make sure that he sort of looked good as well as, you know, he's
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like the Vineyard Vines died, but he felt like the, you know,
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the fits should be good and that we did more alterations on on.
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On Shane than anybody else. I think like we wanted to make
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sure shorts fit, just right, like not too short, not too
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long, he's very tailored, he's conscious about what he's
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wearing, he's very tailored, he's like a little bit, you
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know, fat more fashion conscious than you did, then you might
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encounter on the ferry to Nantucket.
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But still very much that guy, you know, he's got some Vineyard
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Vine, trousers, and he wears the Ralph Lauren polo shirts I was
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kind of sherbet colors but also is got you know his Etro linen
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shirt and he wears like some some just nicer Resort Wear and
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then. Rachel is based on someone I
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know that married someone in finance but was also have an
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artsy check that I used to hang out with in the East Village.
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I was going to say reaches a little bit harder to figure out
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from Our costume point of view her costume is don't.
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Exactly tell you who she is, which is kind of, to the
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character actually, that's what we thought is like, she's just,
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she has married Shane, but they haven't been together that long.
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And she is still trying to figure ourselves out.
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Still asking herself questions about why she married this guy?
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Because their values? Don't totally aligned and they
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come from slightly different worlds.
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But, but not, but not, not really in the end.
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Um, but so we did put that in too close a bit like she.
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She also has some Vincent cooler, vintage pieces mixed in
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with her, Lilly, Pulitzer dress, and her goyard bag has some
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sweet little vintage finds that she got a nice Village or it was
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a mixture. She's a bit mixed up like her
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character. But yeah, that's that's so
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funny. You say that because then we
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have a Shane's mom. The quite opposite.
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She's not mixed up. We know exactly who she is a
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moment. She walks in just wearing like
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really dramatic hot pink, you know automatically who this
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person is? Yeah, she was really fun.
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I was I'm hoping she'll come back for like you know Season 3
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or something because I want one kitty.
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I want her to come with her friends.
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Yeah, that would be is no good. Lotus on a girls trip.
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Yeah, she was Molly is so Fun and has that background and You
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Know, sketch comedy. And so she's like a clothes are
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really important to her and the fittings with her were really
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really hilarious and she is, you know, definitely knows what she
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wants. But is also very deferential and
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wants wants to know what you're thinking and very very
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collaborative and yeah, her clothes.
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Yeah, bold and And she's, you know, large and in charge and we
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wanted her. She was to reflect that we made
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sure to give her Frills and bows and be like a little bit from
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this, you know, world where she's always been a princess.
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And you know, when you go to these communities, they are
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wearing a lot of hot pink and, you know, strong, strong Prince,
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even wherever they are. So we definitely had her like
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that, right? It's just kind of peacocking
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about the hotel. I would say Where's really
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expensive? Jewelry?
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We were able to borrow some real.
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So she's covered in like hundreds of thousands of dollars
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in of bling, which really is nice.
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Oh, wow, twinkles. And we were not always able to
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do that, but it was kind of easy for us to do because we were
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bolted in the hotel, right? I'm obsessed with the show.
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And then we have the character of all characters, Tanya played
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by the Jennifer Coolidge. I mean, talking about a Fashion
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show every single look, I was like, that's my favorite, that's
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my favorite. I love the black look, she
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wears. When she's trying to put her
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mother's ashes in the ocean for the first time.
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Yeah. And her palm tree look.
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That green outfit is so good. I mean every outfit so good.
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Thank you. We it's so cool to see it all
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together. There it looks, it looks great.
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You've got some fun, Tonia pictures.
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She is what my house looks like. Now it's just pictures of Tanya
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everywhere. Oh my God, she's so fun.
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Obviously, Jennifer is a hoot to work with and but we tried to,
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you know, we wanted her to look like a little bit of a hot mess
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but not so but we also wanted her to look appealing and you
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know clothes that we would would also like to wear in a way.
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We didn't want to laugh at Tanya and be like or what you know.
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No, her at her. Ensembles are kind of out there,
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but we also wanted them to be. We wanted to, like we wanted the
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audience to like Tanya, so we tried to walk that line of.
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Yes, she's a bit of a mess and she's rich, and she, you know,
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has been single her whole life and she's going through a bit of
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a, you know, breakdown. We tried to walk that line, so
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that she seemed vulnerable. But also, I mean, she's kind of
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a bad egg but also she's Means well, and we.
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So we try to make sure her clothes look like someone we
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kind of liked, and then, she's she Jennifer likes to tailored
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clothing, so we always had to kind of do that almost
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impossible thing of, like, flowy, but tight at the same
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time so we're trying to get that balance, right?
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Because we felt like soft sheer layers was good to for her
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vulnerability. Leti with, we felt like if she
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was to tailored, then she'd be too strong and we didn't, we
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didn't feel like tiny would be that put together, right?
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It has someone's feel like it's something.
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She kind of like is going through rack and just kind of
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puts it on real quick because she's still on the go.
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Even if she is feeling like a mess throughout the entire
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vacation, do you have a favorite Tanya look or a favorite couple
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looks. I like the two there to kind of
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similar ones that you talked about to there's the palm tree
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green and there's the sort of lilac and orange monkey print
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that she arrives in the I think those are my favorites
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definitely because they're just very strong and you're like who
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a bit mysterious like who is this person and you know she
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clearly has money but You know, we tied them slightly wonky so
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she seemed a little off but those are my favorites and those
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are from a South American, a Colombian designer that I found
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I was struggling to get the clothes at the time of year so
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kind of went to some more tropical areas to invent things.
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I know down there. She just gave me so much joy.
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So funny, I just want to go on vacation now.
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It's I need it. That's what was nice was, you
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know, nobody was traveling at the time.
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So a lot of people got some wish-fulfillment out of the
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show, right? And finally, also, I noticed was
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that all the costumes of the local people of the island felt
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really real and authentic, to me, I'm guessing you probably
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put in a lot of research in identifying what these costumes
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would look like. Yeah, we met with the troops
30:33
that come into the hotel. This At to do the luau and made
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sure that our grass skirts were, you know, the same as theirs.
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And they taught us how to tie some of the sarang's.
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There's a guy who like lights the conscious every night and he
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was, it's called a Lika Lika. It's like a male perreo and
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there's a certain way to tie it, you know, you can look on
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YouTube, but it's also fun to get to have a local show.
31:06
You You how to do it and one of my costumers was Hawaiian and
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was helpful to and help me make some of the jewelry and
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headdresses I love that it was. I felt very just beautiful and
31:19
it really brought me in and it just felt like I don't know.
31:22
I was not even sure if you made these like this just feels so
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real really brings you into the world.
31:27
Yeah that students need because they shoot it with all the tiki
31:30
torches as well. So looks beautiful helps when
31:34
the lighting is is good too. Alex, I love the show so much,
31:39
I'm so glad to hear that you did season 2 also, I cannot wait.
31:43
I know you probably can't say anything about it, but I'm on
31:46
the edge of my seat. Waiting coming at Ya.
31:51
Well Alex, we're going to take a little break and when we come
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back, I'm so excited to talk to you about Jordan peels new
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movie. Nope.
31:58
I can't believe you did both of these things.
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I know I'm so I'm so lucky. I that they're really fun.
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