In “Euphoria,” clothes are more plot devices and psychological profiles than they are props. “You don’t get everything from the same place, and you build it over time.” This process is the “method way of building a closet, which is how people build their closets in real life,” she wrote in the book. “Some of the best ideas that I worked into the costumes came from real people that I saw while I was out shopping or walking around in New York or Los Angeles,” Bivens explained. I need it.'" Eddy Chen/HBOĪnd she says she frequently finds inspiration from people in the real world. "I showed up at her house one day while I was prepping, and she was wearing (them). “If someone, for example, in their life didn’t have the self-confidence to dress like some of the characters on the show, in seeing the show they might be inspired to think outside of their normal box."The workwear pants and silk '70s vintage disco top came from my very dear friend and talented stylist Amanda Merten," Bivens wrote in her book. When you have the freedom to do that in a show like this, it can change the way people think about clothes out in the world,” Bivens said. He was really wanting to push it visually and that was more important than authenticity necessarily. “Sam gave me the license to be free with it and not have to stick solely to what I considered to be realistic. “Kat’s primary color is red, Maddy is purple and jewels and Hunter from the beginning was very pink and candy colors and that sort of moved into more orange and acid green.”īivens hopes that her costume design can encourage teenagers who connected with the characters on the show to take some fashion risks of their own. “Each character had their own color story, that was a way that I could really differentiate,” Bivens said. “For Jules with ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ we found that dress vintage which was fantastic, it was on Etsy or Ebay, and then we recreated it for the pool scene.”īeyond the intricacies of Halloween costumes, Bivens worked with Levinson to make sure each “Euphoria” character stood out with their everyday fashion. Zendaya had worn a lot of boys’ clothes in larger sizes so they’d fit her, so I immediately thought, ‘I’ll get a little boys’ tux,'” Bivens said. “I knew from the visual reference that Sam had given me that would be wearing a tux. Zendaya’s character Rue dressed up as golden age actress Marlene Dietrich, Hunter Schafer’s character Jules was Juliet from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” Maude Apatow’s Lexi was Bob Ross and Barbie Ferreira’s character Kat was a nun from “Ms. “Because we had a visual reference for each character that already existed, then it was a question of ‘How would the character from the show interpret who they wanted to be for Halloween and where would they get there costume and how would they put it together?'”īut, these weren’t typical Halloween costumes. “With the Halloween costumes, I would collaborate with the actors and actresses in fittings,” Bivens said. For her work on the Emmy-nominated episode “The Next Episode,” in which all of the characters attend a Halloween party, Bivens wanted to make sure that the actors also had a say in their twilight looks. Heidi Bivens, the costume designer for HBO’s hit series “Euphoria,” discussed how she created each character’s Halloween costume in the latest episode of Variety Artisans presented by HBO.īecause series creator Sam Levinson wrote in costume cues for each episode’s script, Bivens felt she was able to execute his vision to the fullest extent.
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