Costume designer Jenny Eagen returns to the world of Knives Out, trading New England knits for Grecian glitz.
Chris Evans’sweater is so last season.
Here, Eagen and the cast break down some of the film’s best looks.
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“We’ve seen James Bond enough,” she says.
“If I give her an idea, she runs and flies with it,” he says.
Jenny picked them up and ran with them."
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Now that he mentions it, we can definitely picture Cary Grant in this seersucker swimming costume.
“If only,” Craig demurs.
“God, I wish.”
David Bautista and Madelyn Cline in ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’.Netflix
“It borders on period and old-fashioned, but yet contemporized a little bit.
He’s a character dressing for where he’s going and what he’s getting into.
And we also decided that he’s well traveled.”
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How did they hit on this instantly iconic blue-and-white ensemble though?
Eagen says it’s all because ofFrank Sinatra.
“His dad was also a shirt maker and he had the patterns.
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He brought out old pictures and I was like, ‘This could be amazing.'”
But Peg’s drab attire was actually Henwick’s idea.
“Originally, I came in and she looked cool,” the actress tells EW.
Kathryn Hahn, Madelyn Cline, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr., and Kate Hudson in ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’.Netflix
“She was supposed to be wearing leather jackets and skinny jeans and combat boots.
She has no idea that’s trendy right now.’
And her shorts are just joggers, and she’s cut the legs off of them.”
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Perhaps nowhere is Peg’s lack of interest in fashion more evident than in her utilitarian swimwear.
“Because everyone had to have a swimsuit look.
It really came together beautifully.
As soon as I was in the costume, [director]Rian Johnsonwas like, ‘Done.
That’s it.'”
“These actors are exceptional all on their own,” says Eagen.
“You’re like, ‘How far are they willing to go?’
For instance, Dave Bautista was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do anything.’
That anything turned out to be a barely-there animal print Speedo, with a holster for Cody’s gun.
“I’m blushing now thinking about it.
I feel like I’ve worn less.
I wrestled in front of millions of people wearing just as little.
But for some reason, I just was really self conscious about this damn Speedo.
From that suit, Eagen found an animal print palette for Duke throughout.
“It was the Speedo first,” she says.
It was animalistic.”
Bautista was even more surprised he didn’t need to hide his tattoos for the role.
“It really started with Jenny in the costume fitting,” she tells us EW.
She stayed in her 2015 Coachella era and has never left.'”
“I wanted big, bold prints because she can carry it off.”
They custom-made everything for Hudson, which the actress adored.
“Jenny had all these amazing fabrics and prints and color,” gushes Hudson.
“That immediately got us excited and I brought in some friends to do jewelry.
We were able to create some original jewelry looks.”
Adds Eagen: “We made some of the jewelry.
Kate brought a lot of jewelry connections to the table.
She’s got a lot of great friends.
But we made jewelry and we were able to go wild with it.
Kate was just into it.
The bigger, the better.
And when she gets a piece, she knows how to work it.”
“Because they’re all taking a trip.”
Instead, she wanted it to be deceptively simple.
“The jewelry and the necklace make it ostentatious.
It’s probably dripping in money because it was custom-made.
That was the idea with him relaxed, laid back, ‘This is not a big deal.
This is my house.
This is my stuff.'”
That would because her politician, Claire Debella, is outfitted solely in a palette of beiges and creams.
“The beige was all Rian Johnson,” explains Eagen.
“That was him.
He was like, ‘Oh, politician beige.’
That was written in.”
Johnson adds: “[In the wardrobe department], it was just a beige wall.”
But then I embraced it."
Adds Craig: “I laughed the loudest when Jenny showed me Kathryn’s rack.
“The beige was interesting because there was less to hold onto,” she says.
“The center would not hold, which I thought was very interesting as a politician.
There is a tightness to Claire.
But it doesn’t necessarily matter what side of the aisle she’s on.
It’s power and wanting an agenda.”
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Eagen was most intimidated byJanelle Monae, a style icon in her own right.
“I’m a huge fan of her style and her fashion,” she says.
“It’s really difficult when those things happen because I can’t compete with that.”
“But sometimes we had to pull back a little bit.”
That directive led to crisp, monochromatic suits, expertly tailored.
As intimidated as Eagen might have been, Monae only has praise for the designer.
“We talked through fabric, and making sure that all the details were her theme.
Andy’s clothes do a lot of work for her.
Jenny did a really incredible job finding those visual representations that matched up with my energy.”
