Makeover Montage: A Fashion in Film Podcast

We're celebrating our THIRD anniversary today with one of our all-time favorites, Freeway! The 1996 cult film stars Reese Witherspoon as a white trash Little Red Riding Hood who's trying to make it to her grandma's house when she goes head-to-head with a serial killer. It's trashy, violent, and incredibly offensive, but worth it to see Reese in the role of her life! The costumes (by Merrie Lawson) are scarce, but it's quality over quantity — they bring us right back to growing up as teens in SoCal. We discuss our love for Dickie's overalls (again), Sanrio wallets, seatbelt-belts, Eddie Furlong's Cameo, Blaire's piercing mishap, and the time Marie rolled over on top of John Stamos's Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

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This month we're celebrating Fishnet Flix's third birthday (!), and to kick things off, we've got special guest Ali Segel, co-host of the Webcrawlers podcast! She's here to talk about a real FF favorite: Romy & Michele's High School Reunion! We've been saving this movie for a special moment and the time has come! We discuss everything from Coronavirus romance novels, the entrepreneurial, DIY spirit of Romy & Michele, Justin Theroux's fine ass, and, of course Mona May's incredible costume work in the film. Tune in now!

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Listen to Web Crawlers podcast

Sources and mentions:

https://www.instyle.com/reviews-coverage/movies/romy-and-michele-high-school-reunion-20th-anniversary-oral-history

https://hellogiggles.com/lifestyle/home-decorating/mona-may-costume-designer-romy-michele-gives-us-scoop-films-amazing-outfits/

https://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-wwd-mona-may-romy-and-michele-twenty-years-later-20170421-story.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/romy-and-michele-high-school-reunion-anniversary-screenwriter-interview

https://www.etsy.com/listing/785171005/1997-iconic-moschino-cheap-chic-romy

Get your oversized patent leather belts out, because we're going right back to 2009 with Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring Isla Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood, a NYC journalist with a serious shopping problem. In this episode, Blaire comes in hot with the tea. Also, discussion about the beauty of over-accessorizing and rejecting that Coco Chanel quote, glove thoughts, and Chet Hanx...The wildly colorful costumes are by Patricia Field (Sex and the City, Devil Wears Prada)!

Mentions and Sources

Juicy Couture x Forever 21 collab

Patricia Field's SATC collection

Pat Field on Poshmark

Patricia Field on Instyle

Patricia Field interview on Tongue in Chic

Isla Fisher compared to Lucille Ball...

Imagine a pair of jeans that automatically adapts to your shape...but actually wants to KILL you. That's the plot of Slaxx, a new horror movie about some literal killer...jeans. This isn't your typical Fishnet Flix film, meaning there aren't many outfits to talk about — but you know we love horror ova here, AND it's a movie about some murderous denim so we had to watch it!

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We've got sumthin' a little different this week. It's a heavy, dark, revenge flick, but we PROMISE it's a good one. The recently Oscar-nominated movie, Promising Young Woman, stars Carey Mulligan as Cassandra, a woman who goes out to a different bar or club each night, pretends to get completely knock-down, blackout drunk with the purpose of luring a "nice guy" to take her home. At first, you don't think this is going to be a "costume movie," but it's interesting how Cassandra dresses up in different "disguises'' whenever she's on the prowl — a sharp contrast to the pastel sweaters and dresses she wears during the daytime. Costumes are by Nancy Steiner who did Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, and a ton more. Tune in now!

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It's a very special day here on Fishnet Flix! We hit tha big 100, babys! And we're celebrating our 100th episode with a trip back to Zamunda with Coming 2 America, the sequel to the 1998 Eddie Murphy comedy. Costumes are by our queen, Ruth E. Carter (Black Panther, B.A.P.S.), so you know there's not a bad look in sight. We talk about our fave outfits, all the gold and animal-themed jewelry we're adding to cart, and how we've come a long way since we started the pod (particularly, Blaire's online shopping habit). Warning: we end the episode with a spontaneous and extremely chaotic Mini Brands unboxing.

Episode mentions & notes

Listen to our episode on the first Coming to America (1988)

Ruth E. Carter interview with Fashionista

The Makeup and Hair on Coming 2 America on Vogue

Kae by Karrueche Jewelry Line

The Soothing Allure of Mini Brands

UOMA Beauty The Royal Edit (Coming 2 America collection)

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Where were you when you first saw Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio lock eyeballs through the fish tank in Romeo + Juliet? Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation of the Shakespearean teenage tragedy is a hyper-stylized fever dream that we're STILL obsessing over 25 years later. Costume designer Kym Barrett (The Matrix trilogy, Us, Aquaman) put Danes in those iconic angel wings while dressing the rival Montague and Capulet boy-gangs in a perfect contradiction of Hawaiian shirts and D&G. The movie, the costumes, and the soundtrack still hold up.

Notes & Mentions:

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel doc on Netflix

Fishnet Flix February Playlist

In this week's episode, we cover a more modern rom-com with the most incredible costume design…Crazy Rich Asians! It is FILLED to the brim with head-to-toe iconique outfits, courtesy of Mary E. Vogt (Hocus Pocus, Batman Returns). We're adding silk pajamas and hunky Henry Golding to our carts, okayrrr. Tune in now!

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Today's episode is on Waiting to Exhale, the Terry McMillan-novel-turned-1995 film starring the late, great Whitney Houston, alongside Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon, and Loretta Devine as four friends living in Phoenix Arizona, looking for love in alllll the wrong f***boys. It's a movie filled with as many irresistible lines as there are costumes — from designer Judy L. Ruskin (Sleepless in Seattle, Bruce Almighty) that are somehow both timeless and deliciously '90s at the same time. We won't blame you if you start quoting the movie nonstop (esp. Bernadette's fire-setting monologue), or listen to the iconique soundtrack (which was produced by Babyface, and features Brandy, SWV, and, of course, Whitney) all week long.

We also discuss whether or not we should give The Wedding Planner another chance...

Notes & Mentions:

1996 LA Times interview with Judy Ruskin

Oral History of Waiting to Exhale on Zora

Great piece on the costumes by Tarisai Ngangura for Jezebel

"Sittin' Up in My Room" Music video by Brandy for the film's soundtrack

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We're kicking off Valentine's month with the moment we've all been waiting for, an episode on True Romance, the 1993 Tarantino-scripted, Tony Scott-directed film about a comic book nerd and a call girl who fall in love and go on the run. Yes, we see Gary Oldman with his locs, leopard print robe, and Jamaican patois, but Patricia Arquette rocks Every. Single. Damn. Look. as Alabama Worley. The cute, quirky, fun, and timeless costumes are by Susan Becker (The Lost Boys! Father of the Bride!). We also get into a lot of fun tidbits about the movie, try to guess Alabama's zodiac sign, and uncover some exciting news about that heart jacket we talked about in our past episode on Jennifer's Body.

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Episode Notes:

Safari Inn in Burbank

True Romance Fest

The True Romance Cadillac

The original ending

Hustler x Playful Promises

Marie's cow print earrings from Shop Purple Banana

Shop Naclo

The True Romance Crew Jacket

"LISA MARIE THROWS NIC'S $65,000 RING INTO THE SEA"