The OBX Costume Designer Shares Season 2 Behind-the-Scenes Photographs

Costume designer Emmie Holmes couldn’t be extra captivated with her job styling the Pogues and Kooks for Netflix’s Outer Banks. After sharing some behind-the-scenes becoming images from her season-one digital camera roll, we had been keen to listen to how she approached dressing the core characters for season two, together with Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline), John B (Chase Stokes), Kiara (Madison Bailey), JJ (Rudy Pankow), and Pope (Jonathan Daviss).

“The one factor that actually modified was extra belief and freedom from our producers to go nuts! Within the first season of a present, there’s at all times a touch of trepidation. You need to push limits and be totally different, however there is a gray space of what’s ‘too far.’ The followers beloved our daring selections final season, so this season, we simply went with what felt proper with none hesitation,” Emmie advised POPSUGAR, noting that sourcing clothes through the pandemic was difficult and that she relied closely on the web as an alternative of visiting provide chain shops. With an action-packed present like OBX, the crew wants 5 to 10 of the identical piece of clothes for stunt doubles and a number of takes. Emmie websites manufacturers like Katin, Duvin, and Seager as being reliable sources for beachwear she may order in bulk.

However discovering garments is just half the battle of curating full wardrobes for characters who’ve such distinct senses of fashion. “We all know these characters greater than we all know ourselves at this level, so garments are the simple half. My purchaser, assistant costume designer, and I’ve scoured Charleston and the web for all issues OBX primarily based on temper boards that I construct for every character. Talking of the characters, I’ve gotten fairly good at figuring out what every solid member will love, too. Usually, I might wait till after a dressing up becoming to dye, age, and shred any of the garments. However right here, we’re all on the identical web page creatively, so I can take my finest guess at what the solid and creator Jonas Pate will love and take my possibilities by destroying clothes earlier than it is authorized. Residing on the wild facet right here within the OBX costume division!”

Should you’re intrigued by Emmie’s instinct already, one thing tells us you may be much more excited to get a personality breakdown of appears included in season two, all of that are full collaborations between the actor, director, producer, and Emmie’s extraordinarily gifted ager/dyer, who turns brand-new clothes into what she refers to as “dirty artistic endeavors.”