Whereas HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant is an exploration of a girl forgiving herself and dealing with her trauma, it’s a feast in your eyes with luxurious locales and smooth costumes. Costumer Cat Thomas had a blast giving the freshman collection a glamorous aspect regardless that its main girl goes by means of the wringer.
When you could have an attractive lead like Kaley Cuoco, you instantly need to gown her in fabulous garments. Her Cassie is a celebration lady so she doesn’t shrink back from brilliant colours and flashy clothes–the gown she wears on her date with Alex Sokolov is beautiful. The extra Cassie goes down the, uh, rabbit gap to confront her previous, her garments actually mirror her interior demons plaguing her feelings. You could possibly watch Kaley Cuoco’s efficiency fully on mute and you’d perceive her emotional arc.
Not solely did Thomas snag Cuoco’s first post-sitcom gig, however she provides the supporting forged some actually enjoyable and playful garments that echo The Flight Attendant’s vigorous tone. As Rosie Perez’s Megan finds herself in her personal espionage story, she clothes the half with massive sun shades and floppy hats. Thomas even obtained to revisit the a part of an murderer in Michelle Gomez’s Miranda. Her designs nail the tough tone of the collection–they’re rooted in character however vibrant and trendy.
Awards Every day: I really like the blue Imperial Airways uniforms. I really feel like if Pan Am was nonetheless round, these could be what the flight attendants would put on. They really feel like a throwback to a time when air journey was very glamorous.
Cat Thomas: Within the script, Steve Yockey referred to the attendant uniform as a Diane von Fürstenberg wrap gown. That’s the way it was described.
AD: That’s very particular.
CT: Very particular. Our complete concept for this airline was for it to really feel luxe and like one other time of journey. We have to have the fantasy of this airline. I used that as a primary departure level. It was this A-line, stylish, fake wrap–it was not a wrap gown. The good factor about it’s that it lends itself effectively to completely different physique sorts, so anybody might put on it. Kaley [Cuoco] is completely different than Rosie [Perez] after which I needed to make it look attention-grabbing at each angle. They’re always shifting and this complete present is fixed movement. Each angle has a special mixture of panels.
AD: And it seems like Megan’s uniform was completely different than Cassie’s.
CT: That was intentional. There are two completely different variations of the gown. One is the DVF wrap gown and the second is that this swimsuit that we made that had a swooping entrance and one other A-line skirt nevertheless it was two items. I needed Kaley and Rosie to have their very own moments of their garments. I didn’t need them to be in comparison with each other. Each of their our bodies are superb, so it’s like they’ll select what they need on a sure day.
AD: Kaley has this horny, sparkly gown when Cass goes on her date with Alex Sokolov. I questioned if that’s Cass’ go-to slinky quantity when she goes on dates with sizzling males and it’s one of many extra glamorous issues that she wears your entire season.
CT: That gown was actually vital as a result of it units the stage of the drama of that evening. I used to be actually fortunate that I obtained to go to Bangkok once they scouted places–that’s one thing I don’t at all times get to do. It’s a protracted technique to go for a scout (laughs). I believe it was actually vital as a result of Bangkok and Rome actually are characters in our present and the sunshine is so stunning there. It is best to be capable to see Cassie. She’s virtually glowing. Is it actual or a dream?
AD: Glittery catching of her eye.
CT: Undoubtedly.
AD: When Cass goes to Alex’s funeral, she wears this actually dramatic outfit, and I believe it’s hilarious that she doesn’t understand that she’s most likely calling consideration to herself with the hat and the deep reduce, off the shoulder gown.
CT: It’s such an excellent scene. I’ve talked about it lots and the extra I speak about it, the extra I like it. Steve scripted her carrying a hat. That’s the one description. However I questioned how we have been going to make it work as a result of we’re at all times bridging the road between the absurd. If she’s going to put on a hat, we needed to go for it and embrace it. She doesn’t know or perceive what Greenwich, Connecticut is like. Neither does Shane. The cape, I designed.
AD: My god, the cape. I’ve informed my husband that I desire a cape quite a few occasions.
CT: We simply determined to go for it. There’s this second of them strolling as much as this home after which she’s on this gown. It’s modest nevertheless it’s not. Her tattoo is exhibiting and all of it falls aside after which flinging her shoe on the prepare. It turns into this noir, weird factor. It was a very enjoyable scene to do.
AD: I used to be stunned by the sucker punch emotional ingredient to your entire season, and I needed to ask about planning Cass’ arc all through. Because the season progresses, she begins to put on extra layers and heavier materials because the thriller unravels and I believe her journey is mirrored very effectively by means of what she wears.
CT: We talked lots about it. There’s a number of feelings in it. She’s holding in a number of various things in from her childhood. As we transfer linearly by means of the scripts, she comes undone however is determined to maintain all of it on her physique. We undoubtedly took a number of the colour out of it. We had extra enjoyable with coloration in direction of the highest of the season, however when she will get launched from jail, she alters into the I Love NY shirt. We needed her to vary one thing up as a result of she would’ve been in the identical outfit for 3 episodes. The attractive factor is that it was one thing that anybody or any vacationer might seize on the road.
AD: I really like that we get a girl murderer on this with Michelle Gomez as Miranda. She has to stay within the shadows and mix in, however typically particulars on black garments don’t at all times learn on digicam. You probably did the costumes for Kill Invoice so she is a really completely different type of murderer.
CT: It was actually vital to say vital issues about her however I didn’t need to draw consideration to her. You actually do not know what she goes to drag out. Is it a gun? Is it a knife? What’s going to occur? We used a number of high-end garments in darkish charcoals with a number of actually stunning particulars like a decent wrapped belt. Or a tiny little bit of fringe right here and there. She wore a number of Burberry however she has a pair of pants that I really like with the stripe down the aspect of the leg. It was somewhat little bit of an homage to myself, nevertheless it regarded so superbly graphically when she is leaping off the roof. It provides her this type of superhero, loopy vibe that pops.
AD: God assist the poor salesgirl who will get Miranda on the retailer. You realize Miranda doesn’t store on-line.
CT: For certain (laughs).
AD: Fashionable costume design doesn’t get the eye it deserves, particularly after we consider awards and we gravitate in direction of movies with massive skirts and corsets and daring patters. What’s one thing that you simply hope folks take away about trendy costuming with this undertaking?
CT: That’s an attention-grabbing query. I believe there’s a false impression that trendy costume design is simply styling which is a special artform in itself. Individuals who type celebrities are coping with an actual individual. Costumers are type of psychologists and psychiatrists and we’re taking the insecurities and all that baggage of their psyche and determining how they interpret that. All of us try this as people. There’s much more behind what you find yourself seeing on the display screen.
AD: I might out this present on mute and perceive the place the characters are emotionally.
CT: Thanks.
AD: What outfit from the set would you need to put in your personal closet? I really like the inexperienced coat that Shane wears regardless of not being tall sufficient to drag it off. Griffin Matthews wears the hell out of that.
CT: Is it actual me or fictional me?
AD: Oh, nobody has come again with that earlier than. Both or…or each!
CT: I personally would like to rock a cape, you recognize what I imply? But when I, as a human, tried to put on that, my assistant would ask me what I used to be doing.
AD: How I’d really feel in a cape and the way I’d look in a cape could be two very various things.
CT: Precisely. I believe it could be enjoyable to be the one who might gown up that approach. There are such a lot of coats of hers that I need to put on as a result of it’s enjoyable to be comfy and be trendy. These have been a number of enjoyable. It’s the season of the coats with all of the exhibits rocking the lengthy coats.
AD: Heard it right here first. Season of the coats!
The Flight Attendant is streaming on HBO Max.
