Apple TV+ Bills ‘The Studio’, are Spies of the Hollywood studio system, led by Seth Rogen, as a ‘comedy’. According to the Show costume designer, Kameron Lennox, a fantasy.
“These characters try to hold on to this old love and passion of what filmmaking was and should be,” said Mrs. Lennox. “But we lose that feeling.”
‘The Studio’, who was made and directed by Mr. Rogen and Evan Goldberg, revolves around Mr. Matt Remick. Rogen, a warrior of clear eyes who has scratched his way in the chair of the Chief Executive in the fictional continental studios. Together Mr. Remick and his Royal Court of Department Heads beaten with a navel -standing nostalgia for Hollywood’s Golden Age.
They end the days to watch ‘casino’, strive for Greenlight something other than re -heated IP projects and KowTow on the many Hollywood aristocrats who appear on ‘The Studio’ as exaggerated versions of themselves. (That the show is broadcast on the type of streamer that contributed to updating the old Hollywood system adds its own layer of irony.)
And if today’s Hollywood is a vastness of managers in gray sweaters and thousands of dollars dress sneakers, that memo was lost on the way to ‘the studio’. In his turmeric-colored shirts and blazers with lapel standing above his shoulders, Matt is a return to a time when Studio-Moguls dressed more like Italian industrialists. (A time that may not even exist.)
As Mrs Lennox remembered, when real-life managers scan the racks on the show of the show on the fate of Warner Brothers, they wondered: “Is this how we should dress ourselves?”
In a recent interview, Mrs. Lennox went out on the tailor-made suits of the cast and how she brought together the trend-overload wardrobe from Kathryn Hahn and juggled with the Cavalcade of competing cameor of the show. This conversation has been edited and condensed.
Offscreen, Seth Rogen came in his own style, so when I watched the first episode, I wondered if he was wearing his own clothes?
No, but I have been on projects with him before and I had seen him move to wearing more relaxed suits with double rides and such. When he appeared on set, we started to record these suits.
It was interesting when he approached me for this project and started talking about this character. He was very clear about how he wanted to present himself in this, even about how the shoulders fit. He said, “It just has to feel relaxed, I don’t want a structure, but with double breasted.”
When he found it, he said, “This is what I want it is.” Except the fact that it must feel expensive.
But the suits themselves were tailor -made for the show, yes?
We were having clothes in Europe and Canada, where we can also find. There are many Italian on -makers that we have ordered and then we just adjusted the suits. But there is only so much that you can find. So we had made packs through the head of the costume department of Warner Brothers. And then I had my own cutter who made a number of things.
If someone like Seth says: “This is, you know, I want it to look that way,” it’s almost a freedom to say ok, let’s really, you know, like real laser focused on all the small pieces. Just like the reversal-wee, they had all tailor-made them to become the continental studio logo.
There is a moment in episode 2 where Matt shouts that he is looking for his Brunello Cucinelli Sport Coat. But that jacket wasn’t really Cucinelli, right?
No, but it looks like Cucinelli. I mean, that’s a gray area there. There are only so many Cuccinellis that you can afford.
Are I wrong that the lapels seem to reinforce Matt’s suits as the season progresses?
As his ego and his self -confidence grow, his lapels become bigger and bigger. We would make jokes, such as: “If you could see it pointing from behind him, you knew he had a big ego today.”
What was the matter with Maya Mason, the marketing chef played by Kathryn Hahn?
I just thought of people such as Beyoncé, Gwen Stefani and J.Lo, who have stylists who come in and make looks for music videos. But then some people try to absorb that style in their daily lives. Maya is perhaps one of them. In episode 1 she wears a Stüssy shirt and diesel jeans that are boots. Such as: “This is cool, this is what the children wear.” I shoped for her in H. Lorenzo and Ssense.
Every episode is full of well-known Hollywood figures with these cameies of really famous Hollywood figures. Did you dress those people?
Many people we dressed, yes. But Martin Scorsese has a pack maker in Italy. And so he brought his suits. We just ensured that it was all ready for him. Peter Berg wore his own boxing sweatshirt, which was fine because it was on point.
There is also a Golden Globes episode and many of those cameies are people who literally gave us two hours of their day to come in, so Aaron Sorkin came to wear his own tuxedo.
Ron Howard dressed us, but we dressed him as Ron Howard. But he was wearing his own hat from his company, imagine.
Then his daughter Bryce came to drop off when he was photographing and he says: “Oh, I want to introduce you to my daughter Bryce because she was so surprised that you could dress me like myself.”
