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Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey · The Art of Costume Podcast

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I'm Netflix costume exhibit from, like all their different
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shows. I want to see that I have
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holiday. That was in a movie with Kurt
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Russell, like all all Netflix own that play.
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Right? Right.
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Not just, like Christmas, Netflix.
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Oh, I mean crust Christmas. Netflix Slaps butt on Netflix.
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Hello and welcome to the article seems like a styles with joy
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glass and I'm dronicus Jangles toy assistant Spencer Williams
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said that was a mouthful. I was really nervous about that
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one. I like it.
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You would be a good toy assistant.
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I feel like it would. I love toys.
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I still am not person where I go to Target and I'll be like, in a
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hurry, but I'll stop by like the Lego island of like, ooh.
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And, you know, Kelly after a little bit, I can't help it.
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You can't help it every now and then not too often.
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But every now and then I'll like, check out like the Barbie,
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like section of Target, or Walmart or something, just be
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like. So, so, what's Barbie?
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What's going on with Barbie now today?
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It's like we got a we got say current, we gotta look around,
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you know, you never too old for toys because when they were just
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going to be gone, you know will be like, I wish I looked at the
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lake with Section that bad, huh? Wish you bought that five
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hundred dollar re-creation of the Hogwarts Castle.
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Don't get me started. There's like some Star Wars
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Legos. I really have my eyes on the
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right now. Oh my gosh, last year for New
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Year's we went up to visit Sister.
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We went to like this Lakeside Cabin is really nice but I was
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like, oh, get some like Legos that's for us to all like Bill
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together and I found some Harry Potter ones that were like
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pretty big but still like super cheap.
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And I was like, oh, this is so great.
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Like I think one was like Hagrid's Hut and another one
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was, it was one of the other Harry Potter like buildings
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like, oh, this is great. And they have these little cool
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little lights. And then I was like, reading the
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description. It was just the light.
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Lights. It was just lights for you to
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put in your Lego Lego build. I was really disappointed.
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Oops. Yeah, that happens.
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Oh my gosh. Have you heard the stories?
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I think our friend did this. I think it was our friend Tyler
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when people look for furniture on Amazon her like dang, look at
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that. Cow to look so nice.
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It's like only $20 and it gets delivered in the mail.
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It's like a couch for bar. That stuff makes me laugh.
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Every time he did that. Yeah, that was way back when we
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all live together and now we're messy College days.
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Anyways, I think you guys are really getting into the holiday
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spirit over here at the art of costume podcast.
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Yeah. Spencer, who else was
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disappointed by toys and his life?
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Saronic his jingle. Yes.
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This week, we watched Django. Well, jangle a Christmas
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Journey, so cute. So cute.
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Such an adorable movie. Should we tell everyone?
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The story of how we got to this movie?
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Elizabeth sure I had a little bit of a confusion, and when I
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was making up that like, this year's schedule, I thought of
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this movie, because it starts with the jingle, I just I
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thought the name of this movie was jingle all the way because I
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was like, oh, it's a Christmas movie.
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And then I look it up when I'm doing the research for this and
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all of these. Um, all these images.
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Oh gosh, what's his name? Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold
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Schwarzenegger. Coming up and I realize, but I
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had put the wrong movie in our schedule and then I was like,
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it's a Netflix movie and I put it up and I was like this is a
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very different title. I'm stupid.
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I'm so sad. I love jingle all the way.
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I don't know why you would have thought.
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I put that on the schedule. I was so hyped.
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Remember having a conversation about this and being like Oh,
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that Netflix movie. Yeah, but I also remember
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suggesting jingle all the way which is why there's all sorts
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of confusion. I wonder if that's why I put it
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on the schedule. I must have seen it in your
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suggestions probably and thought, like, oh, that Netflix
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movie. Yeah, Justice for Turbo Man.
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Everyone but don't worry next holiday season.
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We only watching jingle all the way right now.
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Elizabeth has this watching jingle jangle a Christmas
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Journey. Yeah, yeah.
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It's very cute. Very cute.
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Very adorable and, like, top-tier holiday costuming.
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Yes, it's not get better than this movie.
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No, it doesn't. And Spencer, you need to give us
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a summary, so we can jump into this.
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This all right. Hmm.
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Legendary toymaker dronicus jangle builds fanciful
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inventions burst of Whimsy and wonder but when his trusted
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Apprentice steals his most prized creation, it's up to his
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equally bright and event of granddaughter and a
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long-forgotten invention to heal Old Wounds and reawaken the
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magic within. Oh, that's a great summary.
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And if you haven't seen jingle, Goal a Christmas Journey.
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It's on Netflix. Don't watch it.
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Very easy access. Yeah, just go to Netflix.
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Search just type in j. I and and then it usually pops
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up. Yeah I mean it's probably
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featured right now since it's Christmas.
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If you have kids, I think kids love this movie.
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Oh of course like 100% the let's go behind the Wardrobe we have
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director David eat Albert and Custom Einar Michael Wilkinson.
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Yeah you will know his work from Garden State, a personal
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favorite of mine. Skyhigh sidekick, I love that
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movie so much. I own it on DVD, so good, 300
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Watchmen, Terminator Salvation, hiko costume designed Tron
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legacy, It's costume designer for Sucker.
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Punch The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, part 1 and 2.
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So you all know we're going to be revisiting this man in the
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future. I mean we're going to be doing
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Twilight, probably twice a year at this point going forward.
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So I think once a year is enough.
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All right. Anyway, he also designed Batman
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v Superman dawn of Justice. Joy, Noah American Hustle for,
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which he got an Oscar. Her nomination, Man of Steel.
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Seberg Aladdin, Justice League and his upcoming project is, and
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or for Disney. Oh, I'm so excited to see that.
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Actually, by the time this comes out, it's probably already out.
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So future me is probably really enjoying the show comes out.
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Okay, so we'll probably be loving it.
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We will be loving it, and I think he loved designing this
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movie. He talked to a words daily about
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him and director. David, eat Albert's vision for
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the film. He said, when I first met with
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director, David eat Albert and his producer lint Albert, we all
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agreed that for this project to succeed, we had to get the
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balance right between fantasy and reality.
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We wanted our audience to be inspired and Amazed by
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imaginative and wondrous imagery, but also to be moved by
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strong. Lex and believable characters
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and I mean, they they achieve strong imagery for sure.
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Yeah. This entire film plays like a
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beautiful story book which is a point.
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They're telling a story but just everything is so fully realized
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in hyper fantasy but also realistic and like reminiscent
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of the period, they're trying to replicate at the same time, it's
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very masterful. It is masterful and he talked to
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Awards daily About the whole process of the research and how
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he came to, what they call an afro.
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Victorian image for the costumes.
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He said, we used complex 90s, 19th century, tailoring to make
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costumes with wonderfully, fresh, surprising Fabrics.
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That were full of life and color.
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We were determined to make something that audiences hadn't
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really seen before. And so, all of the prints, Apple
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cast had to need, had to be made entirely from scratch right down
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to the undergarments. We need to make corsets
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petticoats and trousers, that could withstand the vigorous
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demand of the choreography for the background artist.
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We were able to use some carefully, curated pieces from
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rental, houses in the UK and Europe, but 80% of their
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costumes were handmade pieces that I designed, and that were
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made in our work rooms. They weren't all in one talking
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about, you know, the joining of like the Victorian and the
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African influences. He said the infusion was very
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organic and natural when I was researching Victorian fashion.
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It was clear to me that there was a connecting thread between
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them and the traditional clothing of Nigeria and Ghana.
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Within Both Worlds, there is a love for strong, geometric
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prints, and plaids, Surprising color combination and clothing
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with bold graphic details. That was my launching pad for
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the creation of an afro Victorian.
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Look for the costumes, I love that.
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I've never even seen that term before, afro Victorian, and
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that's amazing. And that like, that's exactly
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what it is. And it's like, wow, you really
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did fuse those beautifully especially like those
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choreography like the or I should say the big.
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Musical numbers with all the dancers, like the amount of
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color and it's surprising how well it works together.
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Yeah. And it's always against like,
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you know, cuz sometimes it's against snow.
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So the colors really pop even more and why I also love the
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part where they're like, you know, we had to get carefully
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curated pieces from certain work rooms because, you know what,
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you go to a rental house and they did not have all these
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beautiful bright colors so it was probably a yeah, uh, pain.
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His assistant probably spent days and days in like these big
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rental houses just to find like a handful of pieces, all that,
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right? Yeah.
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So I'm like this was a massive amount of work and I can't wait
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to get into it. I'm so excited.
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I have my dancing shoes on. Am I hot chocolate AKA T but
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imagine it's hot chocolate. Imagine imagine sit back and
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imagine Spencer. We'll be right back.
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support. A, are you ready for a little
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story? I love a Christmas time story.
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Let's do it. And what's better than a
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Christmas time story. Told by a grandma, we have
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Grandma Journey given her grandchildren a little Family,
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history lesson, so nice. Just like already off the bat.
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The costumes are automatically stunning, Grandma Journeys.
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Looks like this is a look. She is put together polished
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top-tier. Yes, I'm obsessed.
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Phylicia. Rashad is stunning in this red
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robe. Yeah, stunning area was like
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this is going to be a good costume movie for sure.
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The like the black details, the gold, embroidery, the pearls,
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and the earrings. Unlike this grandmother knows
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how to dress very rich. You're like, I could already
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tell whatever happens in this story.
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Obviously, works out, because we're living in the lap of
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luxury over here. My kids are dressed up in like
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fancy little like Christmas holiday robe Silo.
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They're comfy. Luxurious nice fabric.
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So, Everything's very comfy and it's toasty in here.
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I love it. Absolutely.
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And Michael talk to to variety about this.
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Look, he said, I knew I had to create something quite
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one-of-a-kind when designing her I worked on custom embroidery
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for her robe. That would have a spiraling
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Motif through it and a twinkle that would catch the fire light
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in this beautiful. Magical way.
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We wanted a majestic. Look.
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And this strong woman idea, I sketched out the embroidery and
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worked with Katherine. Addison a wonderful embroiderer.
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She and I worked together. And once we landed on the
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design, it took Catherine and her team of two embroiderers
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three weeks to do the whole dress.
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Wow. And that full skirt that's
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incredible. I want to see up close now.
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Like I lie awake. Like we're not even seen all the
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good detail that's in this dress.
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No, no. Like, and you can tell because,
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like the pieces there, you can tell that it has texture to it.
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Yeah, Utah's a lot of texture to it.
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But you can't really like see the defined details and I'm like
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Netflix. Where's your I want, I want to
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see a Netflix costume exhibit. That would be cool from like all
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their different shows. I want to see that and it has
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like Holiday in there and has holiday.
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That one's a movie with Kurt Russell round.
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Oh yeah, yeah. That's like all all Netflix.
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Oh, no play. Right, right.
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Not just like Christmas Netflix. Oh, I mean Christmas.
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Netflix laps but on Netflix, throwing some Dairy girls,
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Bridget. And The Witcher of the yeah.
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Okay. All of it and you know who had
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all of its Spencer Young dronicus and his family here.
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You can really see that kind of like afro, Victorian.
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Look, he was going for all of the different fabrics and
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patterns like he is like a master of patterns.
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Yeah, it's so cool looking at like his like orangie blue.
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Look at almost This is giving like a gilded vibe to.
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Also, like, it's very Victorian, but the Fabrics like, remind me
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of most, like a gilded 1920s kind of look also, and like the
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complex patterning. It's, it's very cool.
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It is very cool. And Michael talk to a words,
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daily about sourcing the fabric. He said we use fabric from all
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over Africa, but there was a natural inclination towards the
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Fabrics of West Africa. Because of their colors, the
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scale of the patterns and their exuberance.
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I was drawn to the personality of each of the incredible
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Fabrics that we sourced and match each piece to the
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personality of the characters. I created a pile of dronicus
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fabrics, Journey Fabrics, Etc. The designs then came to life
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when combined with the traditional plaids and velvets
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of the Victorian era. Well, I love them.
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Try it like this. A lot of thought, just for
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fabric my goodness and I love it.
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Because when you think of like holiday films, you really think
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that's like, very, like Cookie Cutter, not to be holiday cookie
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cutter where they, you know, the Reds greens whites Some solid
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like red velvets and called it a day, but not for this film, they
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really went. Michael really went all the way,
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did all this research and it just really shows in everything.
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Costume absolutely. And unfortunately, the family
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kind of takes a bit of a below when his assistant steals all of
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his Creations. Yeah, what's that about?
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Yeah, we thoughts were roughly 20 years and I love that they
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keep the like Victorian era, kind of like style to the
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clothes. They don't, I like that.
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They didn't play. With the look of it there's just
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like all the characters were older.
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Yeah. Era new characters including
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Miss Johnston. She was my favorite character.
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She was a lot of fun. She just brought such Joy to the
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screen and all of her costumes were just so well.
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Put together to just. I loved a Bright Beautiful
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vibrant colors on her. Absolutely and Michael talk to
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Awards daily about her. He said the Ingenuity and
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complexity of Victorian. Tailoring is another one of my
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passions mrs. Johnston needed a postmistress
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uniform. So it gave me the chance to
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interpret this type of tailoring, through the prism of
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our Fantastical vision for the film.
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I found a beautiful check wool in the most Fine shade of teal
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blue and we spent a lot of effort, sculpting a memorable
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silhouette for her combined with her burgundy.
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Victorian postmistress Cape. It had become a fan favorite.
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I love postmistress. That's the, but yeah, you could
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really tell that Michael has a passion for Victorian tailoring
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to. I like I said this before,
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multiple times on his podcast, I love.
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The Victorian silhouette specially that Lego mice, leave,
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it's my favorite sleeve in the entire world.
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So I'm on board, he killed it. This is by far, one of my
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favorite looks from this film. It's so good.
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Absolutely. And she's just such a fun
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character. You can't not love her.
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Yeah, she kills that, she's so funny.
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I was upset when, you know, Tirana kiss, and Miss Johnson,
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we're not like getting together. I'm like, come on.
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It's the holiday season. It's Time.
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I see the mistletoe and the the mail truck.
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Let's get it going. I was like your Ronica slyke.
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Get it. She's cute.
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Like what are you doing, sir? Thank you.
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Is too busy having like a serious pity party and his
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store. I can't believe the store lasted
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this long, right? It is a multiple decade pity
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party as well. It has gone at least one decade.
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Everybody Get It Mabel. Terrible things have happened.
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Happened in his life. Oh yeah, no, no, no.
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But that was like, this has every right.
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So be extremely upset. Yeah, that's just like, what's
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your game plan here, though? You know?
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Yeah, because it's been a long time and this place is not
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looking like Disneyland anytime soon.
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So no, no, no. But I don't worry.
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Spencer, the Magics about to come back.
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Good. I'm very excited.
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After our break, we'll get into it.
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great merch. Spencer, can you ready to meet
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Journey? I'm so ready?
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I love Journey. Definitely the best part of this
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film for me, was by far, Journey played by Madeleine Mills.
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She just killed this role shoes. Costumes, like fantastic.
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She's just such a great little actress, a little singer.
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I'm not sure if that was actually her singing, But if it
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was, or wasn't she still killed it so adorable.
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I'm obsessed with her. She was adorable.
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She was such a good character. She's so driven.
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She's like, yeah, I'm going to help my grandpa and nothing's
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going to stop me. Yes.
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She's like, I'm gonna go over. Visit Grandpa and help my
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deadbeat. Grandpa off his ass and get a
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job and her Moms like alright, Journey, get on over there to
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restore the family business, but her wardrobe is definitely the
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most complex and interesting, Michael talk to Awards daily
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about her. He said, Journeys character is a
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real one-of-a-kind. She doesn't follow any rules.
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And is ahead of her time, she's a Pioneer and captures the
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burgeoning interest in the 1890s in clothes that Women could
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actually move in her Natty. Red velvet, waistcoat has
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unconventional leather trim. Her purple jacket is customized
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with hundreds of tiny cogs and screws for her.
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Her workbench, that have been embroidered into the surface of
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the wool. I wanted her clothes to express
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her individuality and allow her to move through the world
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without anything stopping her. Well, I love that she does,
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like, give to me like a very strong inventor Vibe.
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Even when she's not like us, fully ready to just jump in and
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start inventing, she's still giving the look.
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I love the one coat that has a little cogs on it.
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That is such a great little note.
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That purple jacket was one of my favorites, and I love it because
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it's like the little, like screws and cogs match, because
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she has them like, in her hair as well.
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Which I was like, I can't remember who did the hair on
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this, but like, Perfect. Oh yeah.
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They killed acts a hair stylist out of this world.
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My favorite Journey. Look, I think.
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Is the red waistcoat though of the velvet trim.
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Oh my gosh, it's just like durable.
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It's so adorable. It's just giving me like
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inventor also, like, I don't know, just this silhouette.
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It's shit. Makes her look so mature.
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So, like, grown and knowledgeable and which makes
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her so much more like powerful. I agree.
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And it's it's definitely, it looks like she's working in a
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toy shop that out it with like the red and pink stripes, and I
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love the like white and like contrasting at the wrists and
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the collar, like, very put-together, very official.
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She's official sees fully carrying this company on her
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back because she could be running this business.
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Yes, she just thought she was here to visit Grandpa.
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And then she's like, well, I see I have to take Matters into my
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own hands. Yeah.
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She's like checking this Excel spreadsheets.
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She's checking the inventory. She's a wolf.
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We have a lot of work to do if this guy run into place.
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Absolutely. But you know who else took
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matters into his own hands Gustafsson.
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Gustafson Gustafson. Yeah that sounds that sounds
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right Gustav. Said Gustafson.
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Yeah. You're making me doubt myself.
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I will let's check in the I hat it and when you said that you
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convinced me that I had it. Okay.
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Okay, good. Good carry on Gustafson.
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I love his wardrobe. Yes, it's so cool.
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And Michael talked about it to Awards daily.
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He said the character of Gustafson was a lot of fun to
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create. I always say Say that villains
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get the best costumes, he is a full-blown.
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Extrovert and uses clothes to impress and Dazzle.
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We created complex layering of Rich African fabrics complex.
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Embroideries that my amazing stitchers created in-house and
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plush velvet sand wolves. It was James Brown meets African
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royalty, by the way, of really Wonka.
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My favorite sequence is Magic Man G, which is a psychedelic
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fever dream as Gustafson. Croons his way through the
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swirling patterns, and while colors of the dancers costumes,
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what a fun character? And I am so glad that Michael
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said Willy Wonka because that was what I was picking up on but
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even more. So to me, I was really getting
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like, Wizard of Oz. Pause Vibes.
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Yeah, absolutely. Because he is kind of like a man
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behind the curtain. Except the man behind the
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curtain is the little little little evil doll.
28:20
Little evil doll. Yeah.
28:22
Which I'm sorry, but dharana kiss like should never have made
28:28
that. Toy toy sucks tronic it's toy
28:34
and which is clearly a sentient being and its immediate just
28:39
immediately just like I'm going to make millions of you and sell
28:42
them for profit. Ignores the fact that the
28:46
sentient toy is very concerned. Yeah I did not like it was
28:51
pretty scary. Have you seen the movies?
28:54
Small Soldiers. No.
28:56
Oh my gosh, we got talk about that after, but it's a movie
29:01
about these little dolls that like, you know, go to war.
29:04
And they end up like taking over the house and becoming violent.
29:08
This was given me Small Soldiers.
29:10
I was like, what are you gonna do with all these little small
29:14
dolls? I don't like it.
29:16
No. Um, wow.
29:19
Oh Gustafson had quite the Wardrobe.
29:23
I loved his work. Robe.
29:24
That gave me the most Willy Wonka Vibes.
29:26
Yeah. And also I couldn't get a
29:27
picture of it, but when he goes to talk to Journey about getting
29:33
like the one toy that he spied and saw they had he wears this,
29:40
it's kind of like what he has in the Magic Man G number but it's
29:45
all in like this midnight blue and he's like walking around the
29:48
streets at night. Oh yeah.
29:50
Like that was one of my favorite pieces.
29:53
Yeah. It's all of his pieces are super
29:56
fun. Very detailed, strong uses of
30:01
embroidery and prints and fabrics.
30:04
It's every time you see this guy here, just automatically blown
30:07
away. His looks are strong too bad,
30:11
he's kind of a jerk. Yeah, it was so sad at the end.
30:15
One dharana kiss was like, I would have made you a real
30:18
inventor. You did not have to.
30:20
City Hall everything. It's really kisses, like, bro,
30:24
and just kind of like, gave him the side.
30:26
I was like really? Yeah.
30:27
Yeah. But also, what blew me away in
30:32
that magic man. G number were the backup
30:36
dancers, with the, the saxophone, the trumpet, the
30:40
horn, like those ladies. They looked incredible.
30:44
They were killing it. And I love these types of
30:47
costumes because now, you know, they, Have to become functional
30:51
for the dancers and Michael like really translate that.
30:55
Well from like just a practical acting costumes to these
30:58
performer. Dancer costumes day moved, so
31:01
beautifully but still kept like the fun complex colors and
31:05
patterns that all the other costumes had.
31:08
It was so fun. It was just like such a treat
31:10
watching all these numbers. It definitely was what was also
31:17
a treat was dharana kisses? Robes a couple different of
31:25
these plaid woolly robes that he just like walks around the Talon
31:29
and I'm like, oh, that looks so comfy.
31:33
I really Vibe with dharana. Kisses wardrobe, is just so
31:38
cozy. It's walking outside.
31:40
You just threw this on now. People throwing snowballs at
31:43
them. Yes, he remains cozy he stays
31:46
cozy so he doesn't have to get cozy.
31:49
Exactly. And And I wish I had quoted
31:51
this, but Michael was talking about his robes and like one of
31:55
the interviews, I think someone asked them, like, what was your
31:57
favorite piece or like, what would you want to, like, steal
32:00
from set? Like a question like that?
32:01
And he said the robe. And he also said, they made an
32:05
extra one as a gift for somebody.
32:08
I guess it was like a because they have like wrap gifts gifts.
32:12
Yeah, that they give out. So I'm like, he should have made
32:15
one for himself. Like, that is a comfy looking
32:17
robe. Yeah, I'm sure.
32:18
Forest Whitaker walked away with that.
32:20
Robe. Absolutely.
32:22
Who wouldn't want that? Who wouldn't want that?
32:25
Beats me also who would not want Journeys adorable, Suede and
32:31
fur-trimmed coat. It's so adorable.
32:35
I just every look I'm like oh like such a great look, she's
32:39
just so adorable, she's such a star and I was looking her up
32:42
and I don't you know, that she's been in that many films but this
32:45
girl has a career ahead of her feet definitely does.
32:50
And for this jacket. Michael told Awards daily, her
32:55
suede jacket is inspired by a future adventurous, Amelia
32:59
Earhart. Oh yes.
33:02
That is what I was trying to think of earlier.
33:04
I was like she's professional. She looks like an adventurer.
33:09
I just don't know what it is. Amelia Earhart, that's what it
33:12
is. Yes, I love that.
33:14
Okay, yeah, she is not afraid to Journey on her own and get
33:17
things done. The journey into ReSound, a
33:22
journey ahead of her journey has quite the journey ahead of her.
33:28
But wrapping up we have Journeys mother.
33:33
Jessica who comes to also reconnect with her father, man.
33:39
Talk about some leg-of-mutton sleeves.
33:41
Spencer, you know, the I thought it's costume obsessed with it.
33:49
It's So beautiful that purple color has like a vintage E.
33:54
Look to it with like that mustard accents on it.
33:58
The sleeves are done so perfectly.
34:02
I just I'm obsessed with Jessica's looks 100%, she so
34:07
good with the hat, on top, the get out, beautiful and Michael
34:12
talk to a Ward's daily at length about her costumes, he said,
34:18
Anika Noni Rose is such Inspiring collaborator.
34:22
We talked a lot about the combination of strength and
34:26
vulnerability that needed to be captured by her costume.
34:31
I love the look of her all daysius.
34:34
Lee sculpted, 1890s leg-of-mutton sleeve tiny
34:39
corseted. Waste the elegant bell-shaped
34:43
skirt rendered in a mixture of wool, velvets and African
34:49
vintage. Erick purple plus mustard.
34:52
Yellow was a favorite color, combination in the 1890s,
34:57
surprising, right. We found African printed waxed
35:02
Cotton's in the same color for her under layers.
35:06
I knew we would see a great flourish of the petticoats in
35:10
the dance sequences. I mean, this quote just gave me
35:15
all the life I need, you know, he just nailed it.
35:18
That's, it's perfect it. Such like a favorite color
35:21
combination of the 1890s. And why's, he just really
35:26
captured the beauty of this color combination.
35:30
It's so brilliant, so beautiful. And that's really what jingle
35:37
jangle. Is brilliant, and beautiful or
35:39
jingle jangle. A Christmas Journey is all about
35:43
beautiful Brilliance, Brilliance of Journeys, mind.
35:48
Yes. And oh my gosh, I'm just not
35:50
realizing a Christmas Journey. Is it saying like journey is of
35:55
Christmas? Are we talking about the person
35:57
a Christmas Journey? Or is it a journey journey?
36:02
I think it's both both Elizabeth sprain down for like two
36:10
seconds. I was like what is he trying to
36:14
say? Such a great film.
36:18
It was lots of fun, they costumes.
36:20
Or just top-tier definitely some of the best holiday costumes.
36:24
I've seen ever by far Michael killed it.
36:29
He absolutely did. Spencer, are you ready to play
36:33
our favorite game? You know, I'm ready.
36:36
Let's do it. Daniel the one costume to rule
36:41
them all. Spencer.
36:47
What's your one casting to rule them all?
36:49
Oh, mine was easy. It was Jessica's purple
36:53
leg-of-mutton sleeve look. She wears as she walks up to the
36:57
toy store for the first time in decades.
37:00
It's just beautiful. I know the second I saw it.
37:03
I was like, yep. That's it.
37:04
That's a wrap. Just to color.
37:07
Combination is just so stunning on Anika and her hair is
37:12
perfect. T', laid down perfectly the Hat.
37:17
I just it just everything about this.
37:20
Look is just 100%. It's so good.
37:22
It is. It is an I was on surprised when
37:26
I saw that. Was your pick.
37:28
Yeah, I know my one costume to rule them all, is Grandma
37:35
Journey. Her beautiful.
37:38
Red dress. With that.
37:40
That embroidery like just, it's like it.
37:43
Tells her story like you know, she went on so just have like a
37:47
Wonderful Life and like overcome everything.
37:52
Her family went through to like create this beautiful life for
37:56
them. Yeah I love the way that like
37:58
the fire like hits against it, you could just see all the like
38:02
beautiful Fabrics working together and like it's not even
38:06
in the film that much, but when it is this costume really
38:09
carries it, does it does. And if If you agree with me, you
38:15
can leave us a little voicemail about how beautiful that gal was
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at sixty. Six five, one five, one eight
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hundred six Spencer. What are we watching next week?
38:27
Well next week we are going on another Journey.
38:30
This time we were journeying to the four Realms with are besties
38:34
Jenny beavan. Yeah, once again next week we're
38:40
watching The Nutcracker and the four Realms the They've been
38:43
wanting to see for years and never made the time now is the
38:47
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40:08
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40:13
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All right, I'm recording again. So am I in three?
41:26
Two, one, that's my radio voice. I love it.
41:36
You should use it more often. Thank you.
41:38
Thank you very much. I approve.
41:41
I mean, my voice goes through so many different changes on this
41:44
podcast because I'm sick every other episode.
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So, that's true. That's true.
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Oh, that is so unfortunate. I'm sorry.
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Oh, that is so unfortunate. I'm sorry.