It turned out just the way I wanted, and it was really a 1980s dream wedding!” “The design was based off a bridesmaid dress I wore in the 80s, but the sleeves and the bow were WAY bigger. “We ordered the fabric in because we needed almost 100 yards of the raw silk,” says Swanson. Still, even with a hive of activity, there were some pieces and moments Swanson feels especially proud of, like Kate’s (arguably abominable) 80s bridesmaid dress. “I had a full team just for the background performers' costumes, since they are just as important for period shows, and fittings were happening almost every day!” Our office was a hive of constant activity, and we had racks crammed with clothes, up to the ceilings, all separated into the different time periods,” she says.Įventually, there were three racks for accessories, belts, and jewelry alone, wheeled through fittings for key actors in the front office, and background actors in the back office. “Our team ranged in size from 19 to 30 people at any given time. “We also used some of my vintage patterns-specifically for Kate's 1980's blazers-so when things got to the screen, they looked pretty much the same as my initial sketches.”Ī sketch and fabric sample of one of Tully Hart's 80s dresses Allisa Swansonįor their first fittings, both Chalke and Heigl (whom Swanson affectionately refers to as ‘Katie’) had three racks of options for 1980s and the 2000s looks. We go over all the details so the finished project is exactly what I want. “I am very particular about items looking like my vision, so I am pretty specific about my flat sketches when I give them to my Cutter, Alina Babi. “Meanwhile, we were sourcing any and all fabrics locally and via the internet so that we could start to build as soon as the patterns were made. “Since so much of the research was done, I jumped right into creating racks of options for Kate and Tully, and did at least five sketches for each to start,” says Swanson. They also had Johnny’s custom jeans made for Johnny, Kate’s 80s skirts, and 70s knickerbockers made by Siam Costumes in Thailand, which Swanson favoured after working with them on Dead Of Summer. The dress Tully wears when she goes through the glass table top we made, since we needed multiples.” “A lot of the tops Kate and Tully wore from the 80s we made, along with a good majority of the blazers and skirts. ![]() The pair also shopped across contemporary stores to find pieces with the right aesthetic, knowing they could save time and resource by reworking them into vintage styles rather than constructing entirely new items. We filled a 1/2 ton and my mini van to the ceiling!” “We bought clothing, fabric, accessories, magazines and patterns. “My assistant designer, Katharine Wigzell, and I did a four=day road trip to every thrift store in a five-hour radius at the very start of prep,” Swanson notes. Roan Curtis and Ali Skovbye (right) play a young Kate and Tully in Firefly Lane's 70s moments Netflix To portray Kate Mularkey as a young woman, Swanson’s 1980s mood boards were filled with the likes of Brooke Shields and confidently-casual catalog models, while her 2000s mood boards were built around images of forced-to-be-adult characters like Gilmore Girls’ Lorelai Gilmore and Sex and The City’s Miranda Hobbes. It was like three decades packed into one during that time period, fashion changed so much.” “My favourite was the 80s, since there was such a great range of styles from the start of the 80s to the end. “For the 80s,” she says, “I used all the same resources, plus my own photo albums from when I was a kid. Work began two months before anyone went to camera, though Swanson had spent weeks bookmarking Pinterest imagery beforehand.įor the 1970s, she used actual patterns from the era, including Sears and Eatons catalogs, magazines from her own vintage collections, and others she was able to find in thrift stores or eBay. ![]() “It was three time periods in one! Every once in a while you may have flashbacks on shows-or in the case of Once Upon a Time, we would switch from contemporary to fairytale-but for Firefly Lane, we were in the 70's, the 80's and the early 2000's every episode.” ![]() It was just a taste of what was to come, of course, as the amount of research required to effectively illustrate multiple decades was immense.
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