00:00Hi, I'm Sarah Michelle Gellar, and today we're going behind the looks with Who, What, Where?
00:11Oh my gosh!
00:12That was I Know What You Did Last Summer, which was my very first big feature film.
00:19And Helen was from a small town that wanted to get out of her small town and had big New York dreams.
00:26And her wardrobe reflected the fact that she had never been to New York City.
00:30It's really hard because you have to be able to run away from the bad guy.
00:34But if your outfit says, I'm about to run away from the bad guy, then they know you're about to run away.
00:39So usually you're in something that is not conducive to running away.
00:43In this instance, it was a dress that she wore in a parade, which was like a green satin that wrinkled a lot.
00:54It was my first experience ever with a leaning board, which is basically what they give you on set so that you don't wrinkle and you don't sit down.
01:00You just lean backwards. It doesn't help at all.
01:03And then the shoes were so bad that at some point I actually just lost the shoes in the fight sequence and ran barefoot through the streets of Wilmington, North Carolina.
01:10Or Southport, North Carolina, actually.
01:12Well, Buffy's costumes were a huge part of who she was and what she was experiencing at that moment.
01:17When you first meet her, she's this traditional Central Valley girl, California girl that doesn't want the weight of the world on her shoulders.
01:25And she dressed accordingly.
01:27But as she accepted the power and the responsibility, her outfit sort of progressed with that.
01:33But Buffy was always fashionable.
01:35I think it was one of the first real female heroines that you saw who did not sacrifice fashion for killing.
01:41The boots. The Buffy boots.
01:44We used to say when the boots went on, you know the fighting was going to happen.
01:48I still have a pair of those boots in my house that I still fit into.
01:52But I was devastated because at one point, I think for a big fashion spread, I don't remember what it was, but our costume designer sent one of the pairs of the original boots to be photographed and she never got them back.
02:03And I was devastated because we didn't have that many of them and that was the iconic Buffy boot.
02:08What did I keep from my Buffy wardrobe?
02:10I wish I would have understood to keep more of it.
02:12Not that necessarily that was an option because the studios like to take it back.
02:15But you don't realize the sentimental importance that you'd have on something like that later.
02:20A lot of times at the end of an episode, you're so sick of looking at an outfit that you don't always take it.
02:25Again, if the option is available.
02:27Now I don't make that mistake anymore.
02:29But I do have the boots still.
02:32The dress in season one where Buffy gets killed for the first time was a copy of a dress that I won my Emmy in and I still have the original dress that it was the copy of.
02:44I think I still have the jacket she wore in the last episode, but I don't have a ton.
02:48I wish I had more.
02:50Oh, I have a steak. I have Mr. Pointy.
02:52Aw, Scream 2.
02:54That was just such a highlight for me, getting to be part of that franchise.
02:58I had just done the very first year of Buffy.
03:01It hadn't even aired yet when I got cast in that movie.
03:04And it was all of these icons at the time.
03:07Courtney Cox and Nev Campbell.
03:09We just had a great time.
03:11And that outfit actually, thankfully, was more conducive to being the girl that was killed.
03:17In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I actually had sneakers and stretched pants.
03:20So that was amazing.
03:22But I always remember in particular, it's not fashion related, but that scene with the phone.
03:26Which also is funny because now you look at that scene and that phone is so ginormous.
03:30But I remember that Wes Craven gave me one of the best acting tips.
03:35It was just such a minor note.
03:37But whenever you ask who it is when you're on a phone, cell phone, whatever,
03:40you tend to look at it and say, who is it?
03:42Which is such a weird thing because you can't see them.
03:44I guess now you can see them, but in those days it wasn't FaceTime.
03:47And when I see that outfit, I always think of that.
03:50Cruel intentions.
03:52Denise Wingate was our amazing costume designer.
03:54And we had all of these ideas.
03:56And she just made these visual dreams come true.
04:00The famous corset was built at a very famous Los Angeles shop called Trashy Lingerie.
04:06Which is pretty famous.
04:08But they also do some of the most amazing, intricate bodice, corset, costume work.
04:13And I had never been in the store.
04:15I was 20 years old, I think.
04:18And I remember the first time she told me we were going there, I got all blushy and shy.
04:22And by the third fitting, I was like, yeah, I'm here.
04:25And you become a member when you go there.
04:27Because I don't want people just coming in to sort of look and ogle the clothing.
04:31But they really do amazing craftsmanship.
04:33And that's where the corset came from.
04:35And then the kissing scene in Central Park was another one of those odd visions that I had.
04:41And I saw this big hat.
04:44Not quite Breakfast at Tiffany's, but ginormous.
04:48And they're not very common.
04:50We called it the church hat.
04:52And we had to go to a store that specialized in Easter Sunday type outfits.
04:56But then all the hats were blue and pink.
04:59And it was definitely like we went all over Los Angeles to find the perfect black hat for that scene.
05:04But her costume was so specific and New York specific.
05:08And it was a character in and of itself.
05:10When I first saw the crucifix, I just kept thinking, it's so ginormous.
05:15First of all, that's a lot of cocaine in that cross.
05:17But I guess Catherine was very wealthy.
05:19So I digress on that.
05:20Probably not appropriate.
05:21But I just kept thinking, can we make a smaller one?
05:24Because how do you make that fashion?
05:26And it was the same thing we went through on Buffy with the cross.
05:28Because Angel gives her the cross in episode I think seven maybe of the first season.
05:33And obviously I was going to be wearing this cross forever.
05:36And it was just like made by a prop master.
05:39And nothing against a prop master.
05:40But like you want your costume designer to design something.
05:43You're going to have to wear it with every outfit.
05:45And the thing is, you know, I have a tiny torso.
05:47And the thing is like this big.
05:48It felt like the Mr. T cross.
05:50They both did.
05:51Lisa Evans, the costume designer from Scooby-Doo.
05:55That was such a great costume experience.
05:58Again, almost every costume in that movie, in both films, were built from scratch.
06:03Those boots were a copy of a pair of Louboutins that we loved but did not come in Daphne purple.
06:10And were custom made to match the original Louboutin.
06:13And I think they had purple undersoles also as an homage to the original shoe.
06:19But those costumes were epic.
06:21And the second one in the big opening sequence, which was like Daphne's red carpet moment.
06:26We made this feathered jacket.
06:28And it was great in theory because we needed a coat because it was so cold.
06:31We shot the second one in Vancouver in the winter.
06:34But the feathers just kept going up my nose.
06:37And if you watch some of the scenes, you can see me kind of doing this when I'm speaking.
06:41Because feathers all up my nose.
06:43Seeing my husband in an ascot. Ridiculous.
06:47Oh, the grudge. Yes.
06:50That was such an interesting experience because we did, if I remember correctly, all the costume designing.
06:55And all the meetings in America.
06:57And then everything had to be shipped out to Tokyo.
07:00And a lot of it was dressing for warmth.
07:03Because we shot the movie in the winter.
07:06And it gets very, very cold in Tokyo.
07:08But what I very much remember about that outfit in particular was that we wound up having to do some reshoots in the summer.
07:14Well, Tokyo summers get very, very warm.
07:17And I was roasting.
07:19And so I had this great idea that I would tape ice packs all over my body.
07:23Because I had a sweater. Like I had layers.
07:25So they wouldn't see them.
07:27And it would keep me cool.
07:28Which was great.
07:29Except then the ice would start to melt.
07:30And it would like drip and fall.
07:32And the sound people would pick it up on the mic.
07:34So they very quickly took all my ice packs away.
07:36Ringer.
07:37That was such a fun fashion show.
07:39When you're playing twins and you get to really create the characters.
07:44And obviously one of the main ways to differentiate between the two sisters was their wardrobe.
07:48But Siobhan was wealthy.
07:50Living in Paris.
07:51We had some fun with that.
07:52In fact, people used to really like do full commentary on the outfits on that show.
07:57Do Revenge.
07:58That was such a great experience.
08:00Jen Kate Robinson, who was the director, had a very specific vision for the entirety of the movie.
08:05That went for fashion.
08:06That went for costume design.
08:08It was all a big aesthetic.
08:11She even sat down with me to approve what the office would look like.
08:15How the wardrobe would fit.
08:17And that outfit may or may not be hanging in my closet currently.
08:21Did I have any advice on how to play bitchy iconic high school?
08:24You know, I think if you've been a female in high school, you know how to be a bitchy high schooler.
08:29Whether you were one or not, you experienced it.
08:33My one costume from Wolfpack.
08:35This was a running joke because I think I literally wore my arson jacket.
08:41Not literally, I think I actually wore my arson jacket through every episode.
08:46And would change my tank top and my cargo pants.
08:49And it was the greatest because I never had to take time out of my day for wardrobe fittings.
08:54But Barbara Vasquez, our costume designer, is one of my favorite people on earth.
08:58I absolutely love her.
08:59So we made up for it with her shoes.
09:01Because you have never seen an arson investigator that wears Ferragamos like my character.
09:07Like Kristen Ramsey does.
09:08Every boot shoe moment was its own world.
09:13And it's also like a nice give back to my fans.
09:16Because it is a genre that I haven't been in a long time.
09:19And you do sort of think about Buffy and the boots.
09:21And this is my modern homage take to the Buffy boots.
09:26She wears shorter boots.
09:27They're ankle boots.
09:28She has a Miu Miu pair, a Chloe pair.
09:31But I mean she's an arson investigator in Los Angeles.
09:34She has some fashion sense.
09:35Thank you everyone.
09:36This has been really fun reliving some of my favorite characters and their looks.
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