Carol Burnett<\/a>, Allison Janney, Leslie Bibb and Laura Dern. But also playing a starring role are the vintage designer frocks that reflect each character.<\/p>\nFor Season 2, which premiered this week, Emmy-winning costume designer Alix Friedberg says she and her team coordinated \u201cthousands\u201d of looks that reflect the characters\u2019 jet-setting style. She says 50-60% of the brightly colored and graphic print costumes are original vintage designer pieces, sourced by shoppers and costume designers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe looks are so iconic. Sometimes Kristen will walk in in something, and it brings tears to my eyes,\u201d Kaia Gerber \u2014 who plays Mitzi \u2014 told The Associated Press in a recent interview.<\/p>\n
The creative process entails more than shopping <\/p>\n
If not original vintage, Friedberg\u2019s team builds the costumes, and if a character has to wear an outfit in multiple scenes or in big dance numbers, the team may create duplicates to preserve continuity. Friedberg says she was lucky to find so many vendors with vintage designer pieces in great condition.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Bibb\u2019s character) Dinah wears a few original Oscar de la Renta pieces that are really so perfect. Bill Blass was a big one, Oleg Cassini,\u201d Friedberg says. \u201cThere\u2019s a dress that (Janney\u2019s character) Evelyn wears that’s this all emerald green jersey, it\u2019s an original Halston and it\u2019s so stunning on her and it really does sort of evoke what\u2019s to come in the ’70s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Janney calls Friedberg \u201cbrilliant\u201d and marveled at her talent at finding pieces that are like works of art. Some of her favorites were the characters\u2019 apr\u00e8s-ski looks in the Swiss Alps \u2014 but she finds it hard to pick an ultimate favorite.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of them just make me feel divine. And the hair is just a masterpiece, and the makeup \u2014 it all goes together to just create Evelyn and I barely have to do anything,\u201d Janney says.<\/p>\n
Costumes can be funny <\/p>\n
The costumes also help heighten the comedy. Friedberg says Evelyn\u2019s stoic and deadpan character elicits laughs with some of her over-the-top getups. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s delivering this dialogue, these lines with, like, seven wigs on top of her,\u201d Friedberg says. \u201cThe absurdity comes out really in how these women present themselves time and time again. \u2026 It was just so much fun to get to laugh and wink at the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burnett called costume fittings on the show \u201cgreat fun\u201d and said they helped her find her character, the scheming Norma. \u201cI work from the outside in. I have to know what I\u2019m going to look like,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Norma\u2019s signature turban started as a practical idea to help Burnett save time in hair and makeup. \u201cThe first time she put it on, we were both like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s really so fabulous,\u2019 and every time she came out as Norma without the turban, I really missed it,\u201d Friedberg says. \u201cEach time we built her a dress, we always had to sort of think about what the turban would be, and then it started to switch, and we started designing the turbans before the dress!\u201d<\/p>\n
Many looks go deeper than sparkly sequins<\/p>\n
The costumes also help set the tone for the female empowerment theme that permeates this season. \u201cEvelyn wore a lot more pants \u2014 which seems ridiculous to say today \u2014 but back then that was a real power move,\u201d Friedberg says. <\/p>\n
Bibb had ideas to show how Dinah evolves from her trophy wife persona. \u201cI knew this season was about her finding sort of her own wealth without a man \u2026 and what that looked like. I always have been obsessed with Sharon Stone in \u2018Casino,\u2019\u201d Bibb says \u2014 and so they \u201cstole\u201d a bit of that look. \u201cWe really have Dinah going into pantsuits and just a different sense of her and she\u2019s really becoming her most modern self.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friedberg conveyed the privilege and simplicity of the rich men in the series through clothing as well. Josh Lucas plays Douglas, who suffers some disappointments this season, reflected in his costumes. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if we approach Douglas where he\u2019s always been dressed by women in his life? He\u2019s always been dressed by someone else. He\u2019s never shopped,\u201d Lucas says he posed to Friedberg (who happens to be his sister-in-law in real life). \u201cAnd for the first time, (his wife\u2019s) character is not doing that, so he only has three hole-filled Hawaiian shirts.\u201d<\/p>\n
He’s in fact the rare character who repeats outfits, Friedberg notes. \u201cYou can kind of see them, as the series goes along, getting a little bit more and more threadbare,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Gerber\u2019s character gets a major makeover this season after coming into money. The actor gushed about Friedberg\u2019s intentional designs as Mitzi finds her \u201cwomanhood and her power.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so fun to be able to be wearing these expensive gowns and jewelry and the hair and the makeup, and how that really sort of parallels Mitzi\u2019s inner journey as well,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
The costumes may be eye candy, but Friedberg says each look also carries deeper meaning. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaxine wears this dress that was an original Oscar de la Renta dress,\u201d Friedberg says. \u201cIt\u2019s very much something that Norma would wear, and it is saying to the audience without saying to the audience that she\u2019s arrived, it\u2019s her time, it\u2019s time for her to rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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