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On Making Wednesday's Black Costumes Feel Unique

PS: Wednesday notoriously dresses in all black, always. With a decidedly limited palette, what were some choices that you made to make each look unique and stand out among the crowd?

MS: With her look, it has its own feel to it. Like, through Wednesday, through the journey that she does throughout the series, there are certain elements that she has to be quite stealth to get into spaces and be unnoticed. So, when we were thinking about those costumes, we would illuminate the white part of it because she would have to be in darkness all the time and Tim [Burton] wanted her to be stealth.

I think Wednesday has more of a modern look now and [we wanted to] just to try to relate to that generation that is going to be watching her. And also, there's a lot of fashion within her costume. There are different labels that we use [like the character's Alaïa prom dress] and [we] integrated different things that we had and had stuff made.

And then from a distance, it was great to see her big chunky trainers, stripy socks, [and] the stripy T-shirt. Whatever she was doing, she would always have some elements of Wednesday with her.

With Enid, [who] is so colourful, there's a complete separation between the two [characters]. And it was really important that [Wednesday] stood out from the crowd. Also, Jenna [Ortega] made those costumes work, just with her performance: the way she walks, the way she talks. And it was interesting, once you started putting the costumes on her, then Wednesday would appear.

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