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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
How the Forbidden Fruits Costume Designer Conjured Up the Outfits of a Mall Baddie Coven
Coveteur: There's a specific alchemy when a group of women comes together in a close, intimate friendship. It can be the most transformative force in the world. It can also be the most consuming. In the new film, Forbidden Fruits, the girls who work at Free Eden—a high-end, trendy boutique in a Dallas mall (clearly a nod to Free People)—are the ones everyone else secretly wants to be. But whether it's as magical on the inside as it looks from the outside, is another question entirely.
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I have been so excited about that because it has some of my favorite actors in it, and it's also about dance, which I like dance and horror Which are two of my favorite things, so I'm so excited to be able to see this movie. From what I've seen so far, the costumes look so cool and so amazing that I was so excited to see this article. My favorite thing about the costumes in this movie are the way that they all look so well thought of and so high fashion and up-to-date on trends will also being and having so much personality throughout each of their outfits goes all their costumes look so different from one another while still being believable and concurrent that they all seem from the same world just that each costume has its own life personality and character. I think it's really cool that the more promo photos that get released, the more extreme and out of bounds the costumes feel alive, and it feels like it's building up tension.
I wasn’t that interested in this movie at first, but this actually made me want to see it. The costumes feel very deliberate without feeling forced. Sarah Millman clearly had a strong point of view, and it shows in how different each character looks without it feeling messy or overdone. It feels like each outfit actually means something instead of just being there to look good. I also like that it doesn’t feel overly polished or fake. The mix of designer pieces with thrifted stuff makes it feel more grounded and believable. It doesn’t come off like it’s just trying to look cool or trendy for no reason. It’s kind of sad that there are probably going to be details most people won’t even notice. It’s cool to know that there’s more going on than what you see at first, which made me more interested in actually watching the movie.
This movie looks like its gonna either be s much fun and a movie that i love, or a movie that is going to be so bad that it’s laughable. Either way im excited to see it. I think that the costume design of this movie in particular is super cool. I love that they’ve gone super modern, and done it in a way that feels authentic. I think often times when movies or tv shows try to do the whole “this is a gen z movie and everything about this is gen z” thing it is often still designed by people who are not infact gen z and are kind of out of touch, so the whole thing ends up feeling very dumb. This is how I felt about the mean girls movie musical, which did very much feel like they were trying to do gen z mean girls even though it was just supposed to be a movie version of the musical. In this case this seems like its a little bit more authentic to what its
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