What The Underwear On ‘Girls’ Says About The Characters
August 27, 2012 by admin
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If you’re like us and a good portion of other twentysomethings, you were pretty addicted to the HBO show “Girls” last spring. The series has had it’s share of both good and bad reviews (and, to be fair, an Emmy nomination), but all of the discussion about the costumes on the sex-filled show have centered on the characters’ clothes and not the lingerie that we saw just as often.
For those who aren’t familiar, the dramedy was created by 26-year-old Lena Dunham who also stars in the show. The series follows four young single girls living in Brooklyn and navigating the dating and work worlds. Jenn Rogien, the show’s costume designer, spoke to Women’s Wear Daily about how lingerie factors into each of the characters. “There’s a lot of sex in the show, but its not sexy sex. It’s awkward, funny and sometimes silly sex, and underwear is a big part of it. There’s a lot of underwear as we head into these sex scenes,” she said.
Rogien had to be budget conscious when choosing the the lingerie for the show (it wouldn’t be very realistic if the girls were decked out in Frederick’s Of Hollywood, now would it?) and describes it as “character underwear.” And, if you’re equally as obsessed with dissecting the personas on the show, Rogien gave a breakdown of each girl and their respective undergarments:
Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham): “Hannah is definitely into cotton underwear. She’s lovingly disheveled, smart, funny and a little lost. She wears cotton underwear with a classic fit [like Hanes, Jockey, GapBody]….We consciously release her bra straps to make a soft bralette….She doesn’t wear matching sets.”
Marnie Michaels (Allison Williams): “I would describe Marnie as sleek. She’s into Calvin Klein and DKNY underwear.”
Shoshanna Shapiro (Zosia Mamet): “She’s not style conscious but she is a New York girl and wears Victoria’s Secret. Her color palette is a little softer in pinks, robin’s-egg blue and teals to keep her girly and feminine.”
Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke): She is the “eclectic world traveler” of the group that wears Cosabella in “great colors and unconstructed shapes because she’s a free spirit. For her, undergarments are her accessories.”
Well, that was very educational. Not to play that “I’m so a Carrie Bradshaw” game, but we think we’ve all found our own “Girls” underwear soulmates. What do you think of the lingerie on “Girls”? And, more importantly, which character do you identify with in the underwear department?
Click over to Women’s Wear Daily for the full interview with Jenn Rogien.
Check out some other celebs who consider underwear pretty important in relation to their sense of style.
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Luis Suarez: Liverpool’s post man intends to deliver more by choosing power …
August 26, 2012 by admin
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Saturday, 25 August 2012
Luis Suarez
enlargeNobody hit the post more in the Premier League last season than Luis Suarez. His incredible strike rate in the Netherlands has added to the feeling that he should be scoring more for Liverpool.
“In trying to be so precise and trying to make sure the keeper will not get to the shot, you go for the corners and you hit the posts,” he says. “Maybe I should just try to hit them harder this season.” He suggests that the figures from the Eredivisie flatter him. “I was lucky to score with my shoulder and my stomach, they all seemed to go in.”
A change in Liverpool’s style, where playing out from the back is not so much encouraged as compulsory, can only help him. “It’s as he [Brendan Rodgers] says: if all our defenders are very opened out and the goalkeeper is able to play a bit it is impossible for the other team to get the ball off of you when you bring it out from the back unless you make a simple mistake with a bad pass.
“It’s an intelligent way to see the game and we have to adapt to it. For me as a striker here in England against defenders who are all tall and strong a long punt forward is no good to me at all.”
So how quickly will adaptation lead to a charge at the title? “Lots of players in Spain have said to me that what the Premier League has over La Liga is that you never know in any given game what is going to happen because the teams are so well-matched. In Spain you have that power that Barcelona and Madrid have over the rest.”
Overhauling Manchester City will not be easy but it is a long way from being impossible. And he is playing for a man with a plan, albeit an ambitious one.
“Obviously we are not going to start playing like Bara overnight,” says Suarez of his manager’s desire to play passing football. “But the manager was studying in Spain and in Barcelona and in Holland too where they play good football. It’s a beautiful idea. We have to have the ball as much as possible and pressure the opposition as much as possible when we don’t have it. It is about not getting desperate and impatient in possession and just waiting for the space to make the right pass.
“The pressure has to be more intense and I have to be the first player on the pitch to apply it. None of this is easy, but you have to have the idea and the intention in the first place, and then you go about learning to put it into practice.”