The ‘Euphoria’ wardrobe is the best proof of how the characters have changed in the second season

Heidi Bivens knows how to dress anyone.To her you have to thank those neon bikinis combined with balaclavas that we saw in Spring Breakers and the ultra -esteemos of Euphoria, beyond all trend (do you remember what the Halloween costumes of her were cooling?).The journalist turned today into a stylist and costume designer has confessed to us that he is attracted to the challenges and that, after dressing the characters again in the second season of the successful HBO Euphoria series and having been nominated for the Emmy, Primetime andCDG for his work in the first installment, it can be said that the challenge far exceeded.

Two and a half years after the premiere of Euphoria, fiction that deals with the complex lives of a group of high school students who face the vicissitudes of love, identity and drug addiction, still having an indisputable impact on trends in the trends of the current fashion. Who has not searched in Google "bell pants with cut outs" after seeing Maddy at the town fair? Although they are set in the present, Euphoria characters love retro aesthetics of the early nineties, marked by short skirts and tight tissues. Bivens has exploded even more in the second season and says he has searched the vintage donkeys of almost all the Los Angeles costume showrooms. Faced with the dark plots that address pedophilia, abuse, drug trafficking and violence among adolescents, the dream costume proposed by Bivens is an even paradoxical. More than mere inspiration of style, they serve to reflect the evolution of each character. And this season, chromatic palettes become darker as the characters mature.

The expected series returned on January 9 after a forced parenthesis because of the pandemic and fans are already detecting subtle differences in the style of each character.Bivens explains how the psychology of each character influences her wardrobe and why high school students dress from Miu Miu.

The first episode of the second season starts with a New Year's Eve party in a house.What did you want to convey with your looks?

“The episode of the New Year's Eve party happens a couple of weeks after the last episode of the first season, so I could not put many differences to remain consistent. But I think that young people of that age usually change style often or put themselves experiment with different styles, so I did not feel too limited by the aesthetics of the first season. As is the first episode, I wanted everything to look very good on camera. We rolle in movie, and that marks that everything looks very different and makes the colors stand out. I collaborated with Batsheva for the Lexi look, the character of Maude Apatow, and we chose very bright colors, a beautiful golden color saffron and a very intense fuchsia. Then I collaborated with Mimi Wade for Kat's dress, Barbie Ferreira's character. Jules (Hunter Schafer) carries a mixture of what I would call independent avant -garde designers. His skirt is from Orsund Iris and he carries a Mesh top of the Maroske Peech brand and a Nihl rhinestone top. Rue (Zendaya) carries a mixture of vintage: a top vest by Jean Paul Gaultier and vintage pants by Roberto Cavalli. ”

By the way of Rue and that vest, it seems that his father's burgundy jacket that he used so much in the first season does not appear so much in the second.Where does that change come from?

“Nothing does not destroy, but she is entering and coming out of rehabilitation and it is clear that she is having a bad time.I think that in the first season he clung more to his father's memories, after his death, and although that sweatshirt does not disappear - for there he is sure - I think that over time we have arisen the opportunity to show other things, beyond that sweatshirt.Thus we make her character's character more round.In the first season she almost didn't remove that sweatshirt.Being how she is her character, if she put it all the time, she would end up losing her.Surely she lost her.It is like a baby mantita that gives her comfort, and I think she has a lot of value for her, so he has it out there.Of everything she has, it is perhaps the few things she always knows where she is. ”

Jules continues to take some impeccable layers looks.How do you do it?

"It is fun.In general, the easiest way to do it is to get a lot of cool garments and simply start playing with them.It is a pleasure to work with Hunter Schafer, and she helped me with her New Year's Eve look.The styling that we had created came from a fitting prior to the stop by Covid, but then we talked about including more accessories, so we did the sleeves.Later, I got the tahiti pearl necklace that she carries.Hunter asked me for a piece of tape to get a choker, I gave him that transparent dark green tape and she added the star pink edge ribete.Actually, she sewed him by hand on the chaker while we were on set.Working with her is very interesting in that sense, because he constantly thinks about adding more layers to her performance, not only her styling. ”

As soon as they saw the trailer, the fans realized that Jules' costume is much darker and perhaps less scarce in this season.Why the change?

"According to what the public knows for Jules' That age - try to find out who they are, who want that people choose to wear in the morning to say "this is what I am." Many scenes emerged in which Juns had no sense to dress the silhouettes of the first season. Obviously, he still has a lot of those clothes in his closet; It is not that a completely new costume has been made overnight. But you are going to see the relationship between the new character, Elliot, and Jules and Rue, and how sometimes his style could be almost interchangeable. It seemed to me fun to explore it in a suti way L, how friends influence each other. "

In this season we see that Cassie almost always wears blue and pastel pink.What reveals this about Sydney Sweeney's character right now?

“I think Cassie has a very traditional idea of what is considered feminine.He is inclined to a lot of ideas that have already been seen many times, such as Bridget Bardot or Claudia Schiffer, or any woman who, seeing her in a magazine, made him think "how beautiful it is." What we see is that he tries to emulate whatI would like to be, so I think Cassie's clothes, more than the rest of the characters, is rather a costume. You will see it in the next episodes in which it clings a lot to that. He is still trying to find out how to introduce himself to theWorld, and I think that much of what he does and how he dresses is because they want them to want it. "

Would you say that Kat has softened the ultra -operator aesthetics that began to take in the first season?

“I think Kat is maturing without a doubt.At the beginning of the first season, with her glasses and her pop roll, she had a girl's air rather, and then she matured very fast when she spent everything about webcam sex.Now, we see that she is really fighting for finding out who she wants to be.I believe that her and her style are very personal, in the sense that she does not get carried away by how the other girls dress, or she does not decide what to put on what such a person takes.I think she has a very clear idea of what she likes. ”

In this season we see a greater development of the character of Lexi.How does that translate into her wardrobe?

“Lexi has always been the most prudent of all, but it is freer than any of them.So the brands for which she opts are feminine, but perhaps with a more intellectual touch than her sister.That is the conductive thread that I have tried to keep her looks.She may be the one who has more looks of all the characters this season.And then, I put aside an idea that I looked at the first season, and it was to try to make the looks credible, in plan that the characters themselves could buy them.So you'll see that Lexi has a lot of Miu Miu this season. ”

And what has I supposed to leave that idea aside?

“I think the public understands who they are and believes their looks to some extent.Actually, I did not see that many people amend the flat last season, except that a lot of skin was taught to be the institute.But the brands and clothes they wore did not take people out of history.So this season I threw that idea out the window and I have decided to have fun.I always quote Sam Levinson [the creator of Euphoria].When we were working on the pilot, before the series was even bought, and I was trying to understand the tone and find out how to focus the costumes, I asked him for a day: "I can do this, and that it is more realistic, or I canTo do this another, which is not so realistic. "And he said:" I really care about a slum. "And I think the same.

At what point is Maddy now in a matter of style?

“Well, its surroundings this season is clearly more gloomy.I think she also feels mature.She has seen many things in a short time, so she is tired and imagines herself in the next chapter of her life, and even fantasizes how to leave the institute and have more freedom.With eating the world.This season is a bit more mature than corresponds to her age, possibly. "

This season we will see some brands that have triumphed on Instagram, such as Naked Wolfe and Omighty.Is it an intentional reflection of what is a trend right now?

“I don't know if it was something aware.I tried to vary and use brands that I had not used in the first season.In part I think it is because I also have a new costume assistant, Angelina Vitto, who made me know a lot of brands that did not sound me.The help of her contributed a lot of new sap.When you incorporate new people to your team with a different vision of fashion, they always bring you new things.So I was very good. ”

This article was originally published on Vogue.com