After last week’s premiere of AppleTV+ Palm Royale, the consensus was unanimous: Alix Friedberg’s costumes are simply fantastic. They make viewers want to hop on a plane to Palm Beach (and ideally on a time machine from 1969) to enjoy the sorbet-colored world of Palm Royale.
In the colorful and campy series, which is loosely based on the 2018 novel Mr and Mrs American Pie by Juliet McDaniel, Maxine Dellacorte Simmons (Kristen Wiig) – takes center stage in the show as she works her way into Palm Beach high society. But all is not as it seems and Dellacorte puts a thick, Pucci-printed veil over her backstory: she is not a scion of society, but a Chattanooga-born orphan who got a taste of the glamorous world as a beauty pageant queen in Tennessee. . Now she has a huge hunger for the real deal in Palm Beach, a bubble of all things beautiful.
As Freidberg said Fashion in an interview, the modeling of Maxine and the rest of the ladies of the Palm Beach association was essential to the show. “In almost every episode there is a gala or a ball,” she says. “We go from dresses to lunch, from tennis to fittings in the boutique on Worth Avenue. There is so much fashion and so many different levels.â€
And while we don’t have a time machine at our disposal, fans of the show have the next best thing: an internet full of 1960s fashion from Pucci, Lilly Pulitzer, and Maclom Starr (all designers whose vintage pieces are featured in the show). to shop. .
Below, Vogues vintage Palm Royale editing.
