PS: I love how Wednesday's uniform for school was black, while the others wore a contrasting colourful purple. What were other ways in which you modified her look to stand out from the other students?
MS: [Our goal was] just to create a really individual silhouette for her for that costume. There are certain moments within the series where she is backlit and you can see that it's Wednesday in her uniform in [contrast] to someone else in their uniform. The hem of the skirt is raised in the front and dropped at the back; it's a lot longer and a lot fuller than everyone else's; and she's got her big shoes at the end of it.
And then the jacket was a lot more fitted, her sleeves are always hanging out of her shirt, the cuffs are always open, the sleeves might be a bit shorter so we can see some cuff. It was just all of those little fine tweaks that made her silhouette completely different from everyone else's.
I think the skirt is definitely the biggest thing. You can tell when she moves: you see the different fabrics that are underneath it. That skirt is made up of so many individual pieces: it's just strips on strips of fabric laid on top of each other. So, basically every time she moves, the skirt separates so you see a different fabric in the silhouette underneath. But when she stands still, it closes. So, it's all about the movement that she has and we really took into consideration that there is an action part of Wednesday Addams within the series so we [thought about] the movements that she'd be doing, [like] fight scenes.