fashiongear.fibre2fashion.com: Netflix’s renowned show Emily in Paris’s costume designer Marylin Fitoussi is known for depicting stories through character’s outfits and styling. In an interview with Kiran Sahija, the designer discusses French culture as well as current trends and style suggestions for a basic day.
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This is a really interesting interview to read. I personally have not watched any season of Emily in Paris, nor am I a fashion expert, but I have seen a lot of criticisms of it online, especially on Youtube and Twitter–especially commentary and sadly, criticism on the costuming. Marylin Fitoussi is the costume designer for the show and said she wanted to reflect trends that she was seeing–"People, especially the younger generation, will go more and more for vintage pieces and true recycling". While this is true, it just does not necessarily make sense for Emily, a working young adult, to be owning, or obtaining in any capacity, the amount of designer clothing that she has. Fitoussi's description of the whole process of how clothing is lent by haute couture brands is proof of that. Again, having seen a lot of comments on how 'bad' the costumes are, to read the words of the designer gives me a completely different view. Perhaps the intention of the meticulous work Fitoussi did simply did not line up with how it was read on screen by an audience–unfortunate, but I'd have to agree with the criticisms.
I really enjoyed how this article described the process that comes with designing any production. It is interesting how even in the professional world, research, reading the scrips, and doing character analysis is the basis of any project before designing begins. I appreciate how the interviewee mentions that the brand of the costume pieces doesn’t matter, the most important this is if it works for your body at that time and that she doesn’t go looking for clothes after picking a brand. I would love to find out more about where the costumes go once they are worn because I find post production procedures very interesting especially because sometimes actors end up with some pieces. Another trend she mentions is how many are choosing to wear vintage or recycle clothing and this is something I see very prominent in other modern shows like Euphoria where they are really on point with the current fashion of the younger generation.
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