{"id":3542,"date":"2026-06-25T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/exclusive-legally-blonde-prequel-costume-designer-dishes-on-dressing-elle-woods-in-nostalgia\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T03:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:41:56","slug":"exclusive-legally-blonde-prequel-costume-designer-dishes-on-dressing-elle-woods-in-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailycelebnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/exclusive-legally-blonde-prequel-costume-designer-dishes-on-dressing-elle-woods-in-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique | \u2018Legally Blonde\u2019 prequel costume designer dishes on dressing Elle Woods in nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cElle\u201d costume designer Sara Byblow says she leaned into \u201cLegally Blonde\u201d nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFor us, it was a matter of not specializing in a designer piece,\u201d she advised Web page Six solely on the Amazon sequence premiere on Tuesday night time, referring to the prequel\u2019s different costume designer, Sophie de Rakoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt 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 \u2018Legally Blonde\u2019 universe,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cElle\u201d explores Elle Woods\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Sara Byblow says it was a \u201cdream come true\u201d to work as a fancy dress designer on \u201cElle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jessica Brooks\/Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The sequence is a prequel to the 2001 film \u201cLegally Blonde,\u201d starring Reese Witherspoon. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9MGM\/Courtesy Everett Assortment<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Byblow defined how she curated the seems to be for the present. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Photos<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Byblow explains that there are \u201cdesigner\u201d items within the sequence \u2014 which has already been greenlit for a second season \u2014\u00a0however most of the outfits had been discovered on the \u201chunt\u201d moderately than by calling up designers and asking for garments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was extra so us in search of issues that felt true to us,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Byblow defined that they didn\u2019t fear the place the outfits got here from, so long as they labored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe now have thrifted issues,\u201d she mentioned. \u201cWe now have classic issues. We now have archived designer issues. We now have issues that we\u2019ve constructed. We now have issues which are new. It\u2019s actually a mixture of all the spectrum of clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter aligncenter inline-module--nypostbusinessunit wp-block-nypost-editor-newsletter\" data-source-unit=\"Inline Newsletter Module Page Six Daily\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__title-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__unsubmitted-title-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeed extra movie star and popular culture information?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBegin your day with Web page Six Every day.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The garments are supposed to evoke a \u201cnostalgic feeling.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Kimberley French\/Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Byblow says they had been all the time on the hunt for \u201cdiscovering issues that felt true to Elle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jessica Brooks\/Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She additionally referred to as the Elle Woods character \u201cso iconic.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9MGM\/Courtesy Everett Assortment<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Byblow, who additionally labored on \u201cFireplace Nation,\u201d says being part of \u201cElle\u201d is \u201ca hundred percent a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added, \u201cThis 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\u2026I couldn\u2019t ask for something extra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pink-hued premiere was attended by the present\u2019s solid and the unique Elle Woods: Reese Witherspoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witherspoon introduced alongside her and Ryan Phillippe\u2019s son, Deacon, as her plus-one, with the 22-year-old re-creating his father\u2019s 2001 crimson carpet look from the \u201cLegally Blonde\u201d premiere, pairing a black swimsuit with Ray-Ban sun shades and a pink tie.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix-updates.alley.dev\/2026\/06\/25\/style\/legally-blonde-prequel-costume-designer-dishes-on-dressing-elle-woods-in-nostalgia\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cElle\u201d costume designer Sara Byblow says she leaned into \u201cLegally Blonde\u201d nostalgia. \u201cFor us, it was a matter of not specializing in a designer piece,\u201d she advised Web page Six solely on the Amazon sequence premiere on Tuesday night time, referring to the prequel\u2019s different costume designer, Sophie de Rakoff. \u201cIt was extra about discovering 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