Who What Wear: Grab your lamé gown and Gucci Jackie—we're going to the Palm Royale! What's the Palm Royale, you ask? Oh, just the glitziest, most exclusive club in Palm Beach, Miami, and unlike Maxine Dellacorte Simmons, you don't need to clamour over the back wall to get in…
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I consistently say this, but I really am so fascinated by reading about the designer’s process, as they are all so different! Costume design (as all other designs are too) is so cool to read about as it has so many cool details and backstories, and often ties to fashion history (as this one does) which is so cool to think about all the research involved and how they pulled the clothing and all of the process they went through to make the characters look amazing and feel like themselves on screen. Palm Royale seems like a super fun piece do design, the lavish costumes described so playfully. It seems like there is probably a lot of meaning in each piece and yet they all seem fun and very on-brand and to the time of the show. I’ve not seen Palm Royal, but often when I read articles on a show’s design, it makes me want to see the show, and this one is no different. I always find it cool watching something and being entranced in the story, and then afterwards thinking about all of the awesome visuals that helped to tell that story, and how they accomplished it.
I read an article about Palm Royale a couple weeks ago and found it very fascinating so I was excited to read more on the subject. The 1960’s are arguably the decade in the later half of the 19th century that I know the least about, style wise. I get somewhat confused between the 60s and the 70s and have a more difficult time defining the differences between the two fashion styles. I enjoyed how the article linked a lot of the looks that were bought for the show. I always am so fascinated to see where pieces that create one cohesive world come from and how the money is divided between luxury items and cheap items and how they come across on stage or screen. I asked Sydney to give me the buy list for Passage and I spent hours scrolling and clicking and comparing the promotional material to how they look on stage.
I’ve written about Palm Royale a few times now, mostly because I think it’s such a great show both in the plot and visual aesthetic. I just started watching it and the production design is remarkable. I’m familiar with the late 1960s because of my reading of books like Mary Jane, Daisy Jones and the Six, and the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. That being said, seeing the aesthetic in Palm Royale has been so different than reading these books because its not left to my imagination. This show reminds me of White Lotus but with the pacing of Arrested Development. It seems like an odd combo, but that’s the best way I can describe it. I’m so glad that the production design of this show is getting the acclaim the cast is because it shines so strongly. The moments with Carol Burnett are some of my favorites because we see her acting in a “period piece” from a decade she herself was prominent in.
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