The next big fashion trend is straight out of your preteen fantasies. ‘Romy and Michele’
inspire a styleIt's like Barbie's wardrobe. A cool ensemble for every moment of her busy life, with matching mules and cutesy accessories. Remember those plastic diamond rings?
If you've forgotten the details of Barbie's fashion stance in the late '60s, it's all detailed in "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion," the trendiest fashion flick since "Clueless."
In this case of blonde leading the blonde, Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow star as two live dress-up dolls with "Clueless" tastes on minimum-wage budgets. Without sugar daddies to dress them up, Kudrow's character designs couture clothes and whips them up on the sewing machine.
These babes are stylin' in super short, body-hugging dresses selected by costume director Mona May (she worked on "Clueless" and its spinoff TV series), who was inspired by fashions on the runways of London, Paris and Berlin.
"Some of the looks you'll see in the movie are now in stores, but when we started making the film more than a year ago, the only suitable fashions I found were on European runways," she said. "I bought some original designs, particularly from Christian Lacroix, and then redesigned them to fit differently -- to be shorter or tighter -- in other words, less serious and more humorous than originally intended."
The designer said she got ideas for the costumes from dance clubs, fashion trade shows, boutiques on Melrose Avenue and thrift stores.
One of the fashion trends spotted in the film are big cocktail rings worn on several fingers. May said they were designed by an L.A. jeweler named Trina Tarantino, but you can find real gem look-alikes at department stores.
Los Angeles Daily News