'The Idea of You' Costume Designer Breaks Down the Looks from the Film

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'The Idea of You' Costume Designer breaks down the fashion style of Anne Hathaway's and Nicholas Galitzine's characters in the film.

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00:00Hi, I'm Jacqueline DiMatteo.

00:01I'm the costume designer of The Idea of You.

00:03We are going to break down some looks from the film.

00:05♪♪

00:07-♪ This is what we want ♪

00:08♪ Up the mall, gotta go ♪

00:10♪ We're gonna dance this is what we want to do ♪

00:13♪ What you gonna do? What you gonna do? ♪

00:16I started prepping in New York,

00:17and that was very important to me

00:19because we shot the film in Atlanta,

00:21the Bergdorf Goodmans and that sort of thing in New York

00:23and all the designer boutiques.

00:24And even from, like, upstate New York,

00:26we did some vintage rentals and that sort of thing.

00:29Hayes' first Coachella outfit,

00:32that was a Young Maven T-shirt,

00:34and then he's wearing Margiela trousers.

00:36So the cut of his pants were always,

00:39you know, a wider leg, a little slouchy,

00:42a little drop crotch sort of thing,

00:44intentional to give him that cool factor.

00:46And a lot of Lueve, I used a lot of Margiela,

00:49Saint Laurent, they were all designers

00:50because that's what he would be wearing,

00:53even though it is just a classic tee and a trouser.

00:56But it was great fabric on the trouser,

00:58and we altered the T-shirt to make it

01:00to the perfect proportion for him.

01:02Nick and I had discussed Matt Healy from 1975.

01:05With him and with the band,

01:06the obvious comparisons are gonna be made.

01:11You know, it was the One Direction and all of that.

01:13But it, of course, is dated now

01:15because that was so many years ago.

01:17I liked sort of the casual feel of what they did

01:19as opposed to being too glossy or too shiny

01:22or suits and all uniformed looking.

01:25It just felt natural with Nick

01:27to just sort of land where we did.

01:29And then once we just were like,

01:30let's stay a little more cool, you know,

01:32like keep it classic, but have those sort of details

01:35and those touches where we can make it work.

01:37And that's kind of how we landed with Hayes.

01:40This dress is a Chanel vintage dress.

01:43What caught my eye about this dress was the chenille on top,

01:46and then it's this beautiful silk skirt.

01:49And the color was so vibrant to me,

01:50that purple that her and I had been discussing

01:52with our palette.

01:53I just knew this was gonna be one of the dresses

01:56that we were gonna see a lot.

01:57And then I found this etro velvet navy blazer

02:01to compliment it.

02:02And then it worked so well through the sequence

02:03because he comes in, they go to the gallery in Pasadena.

02:08She takes her jacket off, you see her shoulder.

02:10There's gonna be movement.

02:12You know, she was on the piano and he kind of grabs her.

02:15Ended up being so beautiful.

02:17Hayes' look when he first comes into the gallery

02:21to buy some art, to buy every piece of art from her.

02:24I wanted his sort of street style to be,

02:27I, you know, I'm not gonna lie.

02:28Of course I looked at Harry, you know, like I did.

02:31Cause I do like a lot of Harry's street style looks.

02:34Yes, of course you pull inspiration

02:36because as a costume designer, that's what you do.

02:37You have, you know, inspiration and mood boards,

02:39but it doesn't really start

02:41until you get the clothes on the actors.

02:43He's wearing an Isabel Marant sweater

02:45and he's wearing a Bottega tank.

02:47He would always come in to his fittings

02:48wearing a simple baseball hat.

02:50And we had tried some other baseball hats

02:51cause he's getting paparazzi on the street.

02:53And he really liked his own personal hat and I did too.

02:56So we chose that.

02:58Also, I liked the texture of the sweater.

03:01Besides looking cool and great,

03:02it looked also warm and inviting.

03:05The scene is so long

03:06and there are moments of him being vulnerable,

03:08but also it still looked like his pop star self.

03:13After we tried it on, he talks to me and he's like,

03:16can you give me the details?

03:18And he purchased it like right after

03:21so that he could have it because he loved it.

03:24When Solana's traveling to visit Hayes in the hotel,

03:28she knows what she's going to do.

03:30You know, she knows why she's going.

03:32She puts on this very sexy two-piece Fendi ensemble,

03:36the Dior trench coat.

03:37I love the movement of the trench coat.

03:39I loved that there was a reveal when she got into the room.

03:43You know, in this scene,

03:44they ended up playing off of what she was wearing.

03:47It's such a like hot scene.

03:49It started off so sexy and hot

03:51and then it kind of goes into them being very playful

03:55and you see these sort of different sides

03:56of what's going on, you know, in the hotel.

03:59I love that it was sheer, but it wasn't too sheer, you know?

04:03And then we put the right undergarments under it too

04:05so it wasn't so revealing.

04:08And the fabric was so light.

04:09It was almost just this like silk gauze.

04:12It was one of those pieces that I saw

04:13that I said, I have to see this on.

04:16And then when I brought it into the fitting,

04:17Anne was like, what is this?

04:20And then she put it on and we were like, oh my God.

04:21It's like drop dead gorgeous on her.

04:24This purple dress is by Acne.

04:27There was a lot about the color,

04:28but when it came in, Anne was immediately

04:31like just drawn to the color.

04:33I didn't realize that Amy was gonna have the purple artwork.

04:37I was like, oh my God, her dress matches the artwork.

04:40Like exact.

04:41It just sort of rounded out the story for me.

04:44She was started this way and then all of a sudden

04:46she's this, you know, rock star's girlfriend.

04:49And we still wanted it to sort of, you know, make sense.

04:51Even though she is wearing on the side of the stage

04:54that one look, she's in a Balmain jacket.

04:56She's in Versace leather pants.

04:58She's in a gold Tom Ford tank.

04:59So there's like those designers she had access to.

05:02I think she did take a little bit of that

05:04from being on tour with them for that summer.

05:07And it's a bit more elevated,

05:08but it's still in her wheelhouse because of the color.

05:11This is the third project I've worked on with Anne.

05:13And so we have a really, really nice working relationship.

05:16And I love collaborating with her

05:18because she listens to me.

05:19I listen to her.

05:20We feed off of each other.

05:22And in fittings, it just turns into something like so great.

05:26I knew while we were filming it

05:28that that's what was going to happen

05:29because everybody worked so well together

05:32and it just turned out beautiful, I thought.

05:35♪♪♪

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