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Paramount Frank Trapper/Getty Images Tom Kingston/WireImage - © 2003 HBO. From left: Alicia Silverstone in Clueless, Winona Ryder and Claire Danes in 1996, Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City. There’s such beautiful work there of, yes, following fashion, but at the same time following your inner instinct and style and where it is that you come from. I also looked a little bit, even though it went into the 2000s, at Sex and the City, especially the first season. I also looked at Claire Danes in the ’90s, at Winona Ryder in the ’90s. Not necessarily in the exact colors and cuts, but something about the texture and something about the vibe, and just the different choices that had been made in those combinations were inspiring. Alicia Silverstone in Clueless was a huge inspiration. Where there any looks from the ’90s you specifically wanted to reference? I know Jenny Han has said she wanted to get a little bit of a Clueless vibe in there. So It was absolutely in the back of my mind that it was going to come up, but I don’t know if I knew in the beginning how potent it was going to be. But it really came to fruition while we were working on it, while we were reading through the script, finger-pointing certain elements and starting to collect the items and seeing how they fall together into this collection that we call a closet. I definitely always knew that was going to come up. There was never a question that we were giving homage to the ’60s, and maybe ’70s, and maybe ’90s. If I look at my original mood boards, there definitely was a ’90s inspiration there, because there was also a bit of a vintage touch to it. Was that the aesthetic you always had planned, or did it emerge more gradually over the course of development? Rafaella Rabinovich This movie spends so much time paying homage to the teen movies of the ’90s, and one of the things that immediately places you in that world is its ’90s revival costumes, with all the slip dresses and chokers and combat boots.

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Over the phone, we talked about the dream of the ’90s and why it would have been too easy to dress Peter Kavinsky like a jock, and - service journalism - I found out where Lara Jean’s perfect pink toggle coat came from.

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To understand how To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before achieved its look, I called up costume designer Rafaella Rabinovich. The clothes are nonstop Looks, and they’re also fundamental to the film’s world building and character development. Our heroine Lara Jean runs across her high school campus in Clueless-style plaid skirts and platform combat boots the mean girl slinks into a party in a slip dress and choker like she’s walking right off the set of Jawbreakers. The film’s wardrobe is pure ’90s revival. It speaks to a time when the characters of teen movies were constantly faking relationships for a bet or a dare or revenge, only to end up falling in love for real, and to a time when the teen movie and the romantic comedy were solid bets at the box office.Īnd the first way To All the Boys signals what kind of throwback movie you’re about to watch is through its costumes. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, the deeply sweet Netflix rom-com that has conquered hearts across the internet since its premiere, is a beautiful throwback to the 1990s.

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