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\n\t\u201cHacks\u201d costume designer Kathleen Felix-Hager came across the script for Episode 3 of the show\u2019s final season, and there was one line that stood out: \u201cDeborah shows up in a dress made of playing cards.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tSince it was early in prep, Felix-Hager had time to consider what that would look like. It was through conversations with the showrunners Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky and coming up with sketches that she landed on a \u201cQueen of Hearts\u201d-inspired red dress. Rory Cunningham, Head of Workroom, created the dress, which was made of three pieces: a corseted strapless gown, a bolero jacket, and a skirt that hooks on. \u201cThere are all real playing cards that are stitched on that dress,\u201d Felix-Hager explained.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor \u201cThe Comeback,\u201d costume designer Tom Broecker read the script for the Season 3 opener and saw that Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) would be playing Roxie Hart in \u201cChicago\u201d as part of the storyline. However, the creatives didn\u2019t have clearance to use the copyrighted outfit from the Broadway show.<\/p>\n

\n\tLuckily for Broecker, he knew one of the stage managers of the long-running production and collaborated with them to brainstorm ideas about what would work. But he kept encountering roadblocks. The more roadblocks that came his way, the more creative Broecker got. \u201cI went back to the original done by Patricia Zipprodt (creator of the original costumes in 1975 for Bob Fosse), and we had a version of it made for Lisa.\u201d However, legal restrictions meant Broecker had to tweak the designs even further. He eventually found a way to turn the challenge into a positive. \u201cWe added more sparkle and that was better for the camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFelix-Hager and Broecker were among the costume designers speaking about their process at HBO\u2019s Sketch-to-Screen panel last week at the Audrey Irmas pavilion in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEuphoria\u201d costume designer Natasha Newman-Thomas found she needed to make multiples of Cassie\u2019s wedding dress. In Episode 3, Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Nate (Jacob Elordi) finally tie the knot. But the night ends in a bloody disaster when Nate is beaten up and has his toe chopped off.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnowing that, Newman-Thomas realized she would need more than one version of the dress. \u201cCassie was supposed to get really covered in blood\u2026We knew we had to make eight of the dresses,\u201d she explains<\/p>\n

\n\tBudget constraints limited what she could do. Her solution was to make a variation of the dress while remaining true to Cassie\u2019s character. \u201cWe have a longer version with a massive train for the ceremony and have her change into something shorter that would make eight [versions] of one dress much more affordable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tNewman-Thomas wasn\u2019t the only costume designer tasked with weddings. Every episode of the six-part limited series \u201cHalf Man\u201d is bookended with Niall (Jamie Bell) suited up to marry Alby, but just as he\u2019s about to say his vows, Ruben (Richard Gadd) arrives and interrupts the ceremony.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo design Niall\u2019s traditional Scottish wedding attire, Millar wanted to include a personal nod to Gadd, who is also the show\u2019s creator. \u201cIt\u2019s his clan\u2019s tartan,\u201d she said referring to the Gunn Tartan plaid texture used for the fabric.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn contrast, Ruben is dressed head-to-toe in black. \u201cIt cuts the atmosphere, and is a good demonstration of how costume can change a tone, can change a mood, can help really help tell and sell a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms\u201d costume designer Lorna \u00d3 R\u00edord\u00e1in also incorporated nods to kilts in her work. At the end of Episode 3, Egg\u2019s true identity is revealed: he\u2019s Prince Aegon V Tagaryen. \u201cI have a little nod to the Scottish kilt to show this is a clan family, and how deep it runs.\u201d Textures were especially important to \u00d3 R\u00edord\u00e1in when he finally wears his full Targaryen house outfit. \u201cThey had a reference to where the Targaryens may originate from \u2014 rocky, volcanic terrain \u2014 so everything was considered as being of that surface and had a very harsh aspect to it. There\u2019s a shot of red and this molten lava design running through all of the costumes,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor \u201cThe Gilded Age,\u201d Kasha Walicka-Maimone expanded on the lavish style of New York. Bertha\u2019s looks were drawn from period colors and inspired by 19th-century painters. In one scene, Bertha wears a greenish-yellow outfit. \u201cIt\u2019s a day outfit, and we found fabric in contemporary stores,\u201d Walicka-Maimone shared. Her team often creates up to 5,000 pieces per season, but with this one, with its organic draping was something she was attracted to. \u201cIt was resonating so much with the abstraction and bold gestures of the period.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Meghan Kasperlik\u2019s (\u201cTask\u201d) custom-made all the rings for the motorcycle gang featured in the show. When it came to Jayson (Sam Keeley) the biker gang leader, his ring had an Easter egg. \u201cHis ring was engraved with \u2018DH,\u2019 which was a nod to the Dark Hearts.\u201d Kasperlik explains, \u201cHe wore that as his wedding ring, because even though he was married to a woman, he\u2019s married to the club first.\u201d<\/p>\n

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