Wednesday, April 01, 2026
In Conversation With Hanna Puley, The Costume Designer Behind 'Heated Rivalry'
elle.in/fashion: If you haven’t stumbled upon the HeatedRivalry frenzy over the past few months, you must be living under a rock, or, at the very least, offline. Ever since the series first aired earlier last year, it has spiralled into a full-blown obsession. And now, with the show officially streaming in India on Lionsgate Play, a whole new audience is catching up, and catching feelings.
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The costume design in Heated Rivalry might not be something that people notice automatically because for the most part, they just wear athletic clothes and hockey uniforms (or…nothing at all…). However, because the show moves through so many years so quickly and takes place across the 2010s when fashion is rapidly changing, the costume design is actually more akin to designing for a period piece than people might think. I like how Pauley describes dealing with a low budget. Discovering as much as you can about the characters ahead of time does not just save you time, but also money, as you can plane ahead and really use your budget. I also like how she describes her choices that created contrast between Shane and Ilya, and contrast between different moments in time. To do this, Pauley had to rely on the things that we all see as symbolic of those time periods and do that within a tight budget, which I think is very impressive.
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