“Elle” costume designer Sara Byblow says she leaned into “Legally Blonde” nostalgia.
“For us, it was a matter of not specializing in a designer piece,” she advised Web page Six solely on the Amazon sequence premiere on Tuesday night time, referring to the prequel’s different costume designer, Sophie de Rakoff.
“It was extra about discovering issues that felt true to Elle and true to that nostalgic feeling that we had been attempting to construct out, and true to our ‘Legally Blonde’ universe,” she added.
“Elle” explores Elle Woods’ teenage years as a highschool scholar in Seattle, earlier than she reworked from a sorority lady obsessive about marriage right into a whipsmart Harvard Legislation scholar.
Byblow explains that there are “designer” items within the sequence — which has already been greenlit for a second season — however most of the outfits had been discovered on the “hunt” moderately than by calling up designers and asking for garments.
“It was extra so us in search of issues that felt true to us,” she added.
Byblow defined that they didn’t fear the place the outfits got here from, so long as they labored.
“We now have thrifted issues,” she mentioned. “We now have classic issues. We now have archived designer issues. We now have issues that we’ve constructed. We now have issues which are new. It’s actually a mixture of all the spectrum of clothes.”
Byblow, who additionally labored on “Fireplace Nation,” says being part of “Elle” is “a hundred percent a dream come true.”
She added, “This character is so iconic and has actually stood the take a look at of time, so to have the ability to have the chance to step in and assist inform that story is…I couldn’t ask for something extra.”
The pink-hued premiere was attended by the present’s solid and the unique Elle Woods: Reese Witherspoon.
Witherspoon introduced alongside her and Ryan Phillippe’s son, Deacon, as her plus-one, with the 22-year-old re-creating his father’s 2001 crimson carpet look from the “Legally Blonde” premiere, pairing a black swimsuit with Ray-Ban sun shades and a pink tie.
