00:00The siren story is so much about ambition, power, it's about greed, it's about wealth.
00:08That's a tough order for a costume designer. Everything that we wear is pretty much a statement.
00:14Molly and I spoke a lot about the tone and where the intersection of humor and
00:18darkness and the mythos of these women on the island and how that would influence their wardrobe
00:25in the fabrics and the colors to match the moods and sounds and spirit of the island.
00:30A lot of the dresses were built for us because she wouldn't be very particular about how each of us looked.
00:37Molly wrote really specifically that there was a lot of pastel in this world and anyone who spent
00:43time in Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard, you see it. There's a very, very specific palette
00:48that people who populate these very wealthy enclaves in America tend to gravitate towards.
00:54No, no, no, no.
00:58Caroline was so thoughtful about the three women and the arc that their costumes go on over the
01:03course of the show to sort of look particularly at Simone's costume arc, which is magnificent because
01:09she goes from little girl to woman, but she also, there's a real visual story for her as a siren as
01:14well. The first dress that we see her in is this lily polizza and she's using it as this like mask of
01:20I'm okay. I'm fine. I am happy. Hey. A lot of the beauty and the humor lies in that Stepford Wives
01:28element. Michaela is this person of great wealth and there's not a lot of practicality to how she
01:35dresses. So hot. Devin's entry into the whole world of that is a little bit different. Over time we sort of
01:42see her assimilate to her surroundings and what she looked like when she's what we call undercover.
01:51I got to wear some extraordinary jewelry, some beautiful pieces. We felt really honored that they
02:02lent them to us. That I think I love more than anything. It was very clear that we were going to
02:08have to build a lot of this world. Even Ethan's ducky blazer. I like his ducky. No, you like his Rolex.
02:14That was a fabric that we had custom made. The team here just did such an amazing job designing hand
02:19dyeing the fabric. They knew that they wanted this area, the bust area, to be this pink and then I put
02:26a little purple on the side so that the bust is pink but then it's kind of highlighted with the purple
02:31to give it a little more depth. That just takes time and experience to acquire that sensibility.
02:37The dress moves beautifully and every time she turned it's something lovely. So the dress just kept
02:43giving. The dress for the gala and the finale that was handmade definitely has a bit of that Greek
02:49mythological vibe. She looks like a goddess. This very much to me feels like a dress that
02:55Aphrodite would have worn. It's dreamy and watching it feels like a dream. Don't you look beautiful in
03:02that dress I had made for you.
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