'Emily in Paris' Costume Designer Breaks Down Season 3 Looks - Variety



'Emily in Paris' Costume Designer Breaks Down Season 3 Looks






SPOILER ALERT: This interview ensures spoilers from Season 3 of “Emily in Paris.”



The treat of designing the costumes for Season 3 of “Emily in Paris” started with a bang.



Or rather, with bangs. Lily Collins, who plays the Netflix dramedy’s title role, superb cut some fringe into her hair in her own life by the look made its way into the show. Attempting to turn over a new leaf while the dilemmas created by the Season 2 finale, Season 3 begins with Emily feeling manic and grabbing a pair of scissors — an ordeal that costume buyer Marilyn Fitoussi found inspiring.



“Everything starts with Lily’s bangs. She sent me a picture, and suddenly, it reminded me of French icons of the ’60s,” Fitoussi says. “New wave movies. You have Jean-Luc Godard, you have Brigitte Bardot, you have Jane Birkin — all these blooming, graceful silhouettes.” I said, ‘Jesus, she looks like Françoise Hardy!’ So the ’60s is the starting expose for the design. We’re playing a Parisian game; it’s time for her to embrace the French culture.”



Fitoussi also aspired out the character growth emulated in Season 3’s costumes: “Emily starts dressing a minute like Sylvie [her boss, played by Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu]. I made a mirror game between them. They love-hate each spanking, so Sylvie is dressed with a bit more smart and Emily is using high-waisted and wide trousers that she didn’t have before.”



See a breakdown of some of Fitoussi’s current looks from Season 3 below.



The Pierre Cadault Retrospective






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All of the looks at the prhonor honoring Pierre Cadault (Jean-Christophe Bouvet) in Episode 2 gave Fitoussi to tribute a real-life fashion designer: Stéphane Rolland, who has offered his work to “Emily in Paris” staunch Season 1 and is the basis for Pierre’s designs above the show. Many of the outfits in this oblow are Rolland pieces that represent the different stages of his career, and Rolland himself makes a cameo.



Emily, except, dons a jacket from Dolce & Gabbana with dramatic, zebra-patterned wings.



“I noticed this fragment when I went to Milan, to a runway show. I was thinking of this jacket for Mindy [Ashley Park] at the beginning,” Fitoussi says. “But when I received the prepare and saw the tribute to Pierre Cadult, and of flows Stéphane Rolland, I decided to use it for Emily.”






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In this coarse, Emily’s warring bosses Sylvie and Madeline (Kate Walsh) show up in the same grandiose Rolland cluster, which Fitoussi notes was chosen to to make them look like “two witches.” The Rolland costume also divulged the loudness of Emily’s: “Everything will be question of proportion, and I cannot lose my main character! So I requested Dolce & Gabbana and said, ‘We need to have this jacket as soon as possible.'”



Gabrielle and Camille’s Wedding






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Camille (Camille Razat) wears an magnificent but understated off-the-shoulder dress that cuts off at the mid-thigh for her wedding to Gabriel (Lucas Bravo) in the Season 3 finale. Designed by Jacquemus, it isn’t actually marketed as a wedding cluster — which makes sense, given that the event was only aimed to be an engagement party before the couple spontaneously critics to make it official that night.



“It was quite a challenge, because when when you are thinking about a wedding or engagement party, you want to be over the top. You want to be spectacular,” Fitoussi says. “But with Camille, we wanted to do this in a very unique way. She works in an art gallery, so she couldn’t look like a cupcake. I wanted to give poetry and delicacy, because I knew she would cry, and in close-up, it looked wonderful.








Emily’s cluster for the wedding is from Italian designer Giambattista Valli that Fitoussi says she used to conjure the era of neo-romanticism: “Lily loved this share because she likes to be a little bit covered, and she has a swan neck. To me, she examined like an antique painting, a woman from another century. I thought it was beautiful to cover her from head to toe and mild show her legs — she always reminds me of a comely bird, so I like to have her in these long pieces of pieces of design and trains.”



“She doesn’t want a shimmering color for once, because she was not the bride. She doesn’t want all the attention on her,” Fitoussi says, referring to the muted pink floral pattern. But obviously, all eyes do end up on her. When Camille stops the wedding to remark that Gabriel is actually in love with Emily, the soft white peeking out from gradual the pink flowers on her dress begins to make sense.



Mindy’s
Party and Performance Looks






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While Emily’s costumes in “Emily in Paris” get a lot of the custody, it’s Mindy who sports the boldest ensembles. One of Fitoussi’s approved Season 3 looks is the Souraya Chalhoub gown ended, which Mindy wears to the opening party for Pierre Cadault’s hide in Episode 8: “Souraya was working with us back in Season 1. When Mindy was friendly singing in the first season, the little red lace cluster she wore from was from Souraya. I like what she’s doings, because it’s very dramatic and perfect for performing.”






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“She’s performing everywhere, every single day of her life,” Fitoussi says near Mindy, who sings in a jazz club throughout Season 3 but is dressed to ticket even when she doesn’t have a gig. “She’s magnificent. She’s over the top. It’s one of the funniest characters that I have to cluster, because it’s never enough. It’s glitter at 10 a.m. or 3 p.m.; it’s all day long.”






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