Harpers bazaar: The year is 2020, and like most people I give in to the temptation. I binge watch Emily in Paris season one. Back then, did I manifest a flight to Paris, without a return ticket? Absolutely. Do I still wish for the same, five seasons later? Without question. And I blame it on the resonance with Emily Cooper—the promise of romance, arguably handsome faces, the urge to rebuild yourself, glimpses of the gleaming Eiffel Tower, and most of all the reminder of the excess and the audacity that fashion meets you at.
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I love reading Marylin Fitoussi’s perspective on costume design. I always thought a lot of the costume research starts from focusing on the trend in the designed time period and the geographic location the play is set in. But the idea of not paying attention to the trend and designing freely at the very initial state of creation is super cool. Later on, when she mentions clothes as armour made me think of The Devil Wearing Prada. The way that a styled clothing choice can really change someone’s external self and others’ perception of them is really powerful. The aesthetic and energy brought by the cloth is a really expressive way to show one's image to the outside world. Marylin Fitoussi says, “Because I believe style begins when fears end, when you are not preoccupied by what other people will think about you,” which is super powerful. I’ve never thought about style that way, but simply a personal choice in spending more time on it or not.
I love Emily in Paris so much, and I think so much of the attraction to the show is the costumes, which are so colorful and vibrant, and they flow so nicely, blending with the gorgeous Paris setting they have. What makes the costume so amazing in the show is that they make you want to live in Paris; they truly make you wanna sit in a sundress in a park in Paris eating a baguette. A lot of the costumes that are in this TV show are a little bit out there; they're very bright, they have fun shapes and fun colors. I think that's what kind of uplift the whimsy and the joy that the show portrays about living in Paris. What the costume designer had to say about just going for it is such great advice in anything in life, and I wanna take more of that mindset into my art.
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