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Join the incomparable Molly Ringwald (Pretty in Pink, Riverdale, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Dahmer, Feud) in this captivating episode of Behind the Looks. Step into a world where fashion meets entertainment as Molly takes us through a retrospective of her most iconic film and TV character costumes. From the unforgettable styles of the '80s to her contemporary on-screen looks, get an insider's view of the fashion stories that defined her career.

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00:00Hi, I'm Molly Ringwald, and you're going Behind the Looks with Who, What, Where.

00:12Okay, well, my character, this was in the 70s, I believe, or maybe early 80s.

00:20But she was supposed to be a real feminist, so all of my characters, you know, I had like

00:25the suspenders, I think I wore a tie.

00:28Yeah, I was supposed to be just sort of like a spunky little feminist.

00:34This was, of course, 16 Candles, this was supposed to be the bridesmaid's dress that was supposed

00:42to be pretty unattractive, I actually thought it was kind of pretty.

00:46It cracks me up though that we're doing the scene over, like, that I'm leaning over a cake

00:52with candles on it, I mean that dress, like, I'm surprised that it didn't go up in flames.

00:58The overall look was just the costume designer and I went to, like, Melrose Boulevard, which

01:06is where I like to shop at that time.

01:08And, you know, I just picked out stuff and tried them on and, you know, I have always really

01:15liked to wear hats, so that's why, you know, and at the time, you know, sort of those, like,

01:20fedoras or pork pie hats were really in.

01:24I was really into, like, madness and, you know, those bands, and so, you know, I feel like

01:30the clothes that I wore were, everything was, like, something that I would have worn, except

01:36for the dress.

01:37The dress was supposed to be this one, was one that I wasn't really supposed to like.

01:42Ah, The Breakfast Club.

01:44Yeah.

01:45So, there was a costume designer on that film, Marilyn Vance, who I later worked with on Pretty

01:51in Pink.

01:53We had had conversations about my costume in Los Angeles and the ideas around it.

02:01But then when it arrived in Chicago, it wasn't really like what I imagined.

02:06It wasn't really very flattering.

02:08And I wasn't really happy with the costume, so John Hughes just, we went out shopping and

02:14I picked out everything that I'm wearing, pretty much.

02:19Most of it came from Ralph Lauren, the boots, the belt, the skirt, the top.

02:25That was all Ralph Lauren.

02:26I think the leather jacket that I wear in the beginning, I think, is from somewhere else.

02:29But yeah, that whole thing is Ralph Lauren.

02:33I feel like she was really an aspirational swan, if you will.

02:37You know, she really cared about clothes.

02:41There was a scene where everyone, I think just about everyone says why they got in detention.

02:47And my character ditched school to go shopping.

02:50So I mean, shopping was really important to her.

02:54And I felt like she would be into Ralph Lauren.

02:57That was the kind of look that I think Claire went for.

03:02The original outfit was a lot more 80s.

03:07And I feel like the film would have looked a lot more dated had I not been wearing this

03:12costume.

03:13Okay, pretty in pink.

03:15The dress on the right was something that we had discussed, Marilyn and I.

03:21Again, it was not exactly what I had envisioned.

03:26And I wasn't really happy with the dress.

03:28Now I think it's, you know, it's sort of iconic and, you know, it's certainly different.

03:34And very much of that time.

03:36But at the time I was sort of miserable.

03:40And I took a lot of my clothes from pretty in pink, but I left the prom dress because

03:45I hated it so much, but now I really wish I had it.

03:49The character had been written for me, the script had been written for me by John Hughes.

03:55So there were a lot of, I would say of all the characters that I played, there was, I

04:00was the most like that.

04:02He took a lot of things, you know, from my life.

04:05Her love of vintage, her love of, you know, fashion and all of that was really just directly

04:11for me.

04:12And also my obsession with the color pink because I was really into pink at the time.

04:17So yeah, I worked with Marilyn and she chose so many great vintage pieces and then other

04:24things that maybe we couldn't use vintage because we needed to have multiple outfits.

04:32You know, if it was like an important or a long scene, they always have to have, you

04:36know, doubles or triples.

04:37So everything, if it was either vintage or it was made to specifically to look vintage.

04:43Pickup artist.

04:44Yeah, this was designed by my good friend, Colleen Atwood, who I had known since I was, I think,

04:5414 years old.

04:56And now of course she's an amazing, you know, Academy Award winning designer.

05:01But this was, I think, the second film that we had done together.

05:06I think this is pretty much what I wear during the whole film.

05:09This was my one outfit.

05:11So luckily I liked it and it wasn't too hard to be in it for two months straight.

05:17The only other thing I wear, I think, in this movie is I wear an Aliyah dress in the

05:21first scene that you see.

05:23And I loved that and I think I still have it somewhere.

05:27Okay.

05:28Yeah.

05:29So I think that was towards the end when we went into a time warp and ended up in the

05:32fifties, which was really fun.

05:35Most of my clothes, you know, most of the seasons were in clothes of today.

05:42And, you know, Mary was a lawyer so she, you know, had some money and, you know, my clothes

05:49were always like pretty classic.

05:52Started out with more pale colors and then Roberto, the showrunner, creator of the show,

06:02decided that he only wanted Mary to wear really bright colors.

06:06Really liked blue for some reason.

06:07He really adored blue, but yeah.

06:11But this was towards the end when we were in the fifties and, and that was really fun.

06:16I really loved working with KJ Apa who played my son.

06:19We really got along really well.

06:22I would say that almost all of my scenes were with KJ and towards the end, Charlie Melton.

06:28But, and in the beginning with Luke, of course, but I really loved, I loved watching these kids

06:36grow up, you know, it was really kind of like a long run and they were, they started out

06:40as kids and it was really by the end, you know, KJ had had his own kid and, you know,

06:46it was really nice watching these kids grow up.

06:49Ah, Dahmer.

06:51Yeah.

06:52Yeah.

06:53And this time I'm, I'm playing Sherry Dahmer.

06:56I think, um, as you can see, anybody who has seen the show, it's, uh, you know, everything

07:01is very yellow.

07:03They wanted the, the sets and the costumes to be sort of like urine yellow is what I heard.

07:11Um, so, you know, there were a lot of colors that I wouldn't necessarily wear.

07:16Um, I think I, I can't tell, but I think I'm wearing the, the cross, you know, she's always

07:22wearing like a little tasteful cross just to sort of, um, you know, show that she's a,

07:28she's a, she's a religious woman.

07:31Um, they both are.

07:33I was really happy to be asked to be in a Ryan Murphy show.

07:37You know, I think that he's, he has fantastic, uh, taste in, in, uh, in his cast.

07:44I mean, all of my scenes, just, just about all of my scenes in this were with Richard

07:48Jenkins who was just a phenomenal actor and we really immediately hit it off and I feel

07:54like when you're working with actors of that caliber, it just kind of makes, makes your

07:58job a lot easier.

08:00So I had a really good experience doing that.

08:03And then when I was asked to do, uh, Feud, of course, I was, you know, really excited

08:08about that.

08:09And of course, um, you know, excited because it was going to be shooting in New York, uh,

08:15but all of my scenes were pretty much in Los Angeles.

08:17Yeah, there she is, Joanne Carson.

08:20They really wanted my character to be sort of like an anecdote to all of these, uh, you

08:26know, sort of uptight, very fashionable, chic women, um, like Babe Paley and, you know,

08:33CZ Guest and, uh, Slim Keith and Lee Radiswell.

08:38You know, Joanne was really, she wasn't really an official swan, she was really more his last

08:43friend.

08:44So they really wanted my clothing to be more colorful and kind of a bit more bohemian.

08:50So, which is why I have this kind of like, almost like caftan on, but I, I really liked

08:55that caftan and I would totally wear that.

08:58All the clothes that I would want to wear were really worn by all of the women in New York.

09:04That's really much more my style, I would say, uh, than Joanne's style, but, um, but I really,

09:11I had a lot of fondness for my character.

09:13Thanks for watching.

09:15Let me know your favorite look in the comments below.

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