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CHARLIE’S ANGELS
Rebooting Charlie’s Angels presented Elizabeth Banks
with a welcome challenge. “It was an opportunity to
have fashion meet an action movie,” says the writer-
director, who also appears in the film as boss Bosley to a
new generation of Angels. But that doesn’t mean the movie’s stars
were dripping in couture. “Every girl that sees the movie should
believe they could also be one of them,” says costume designer Kym
Barrett, who looked to street style to assemble a wardrobe that was
both accessible and aspirational. Banks agrees: “We wanted our
girls to feel like real women who had [access to] a great closet.”
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“I tried to play with
some tropes,”
Banks says. “The
closet is a great
trope of so many
women’s movies,
and it’s also in,
for instance, Bond.”
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Elena (Naomi Scott)
takes down a thug
in this ladylike
frock. Barrett did
a lot of shopping,
but “we made
the pieces that had
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to be very stunt-
versatile,” she says.
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Jane (Ella Balinska)
and Sabina (Kris-
ten Stewart) have
a sparkly “team
dressing moment,”
Banks calls it, in
the movie’s finale.
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In a nod to past
Angels, Barrett got
this dirndl (Lucy
Liu and Drew Bar-
rymore each wore
one in the 2000
film) from the
Columbia archive.
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Banks says her
Bosley dresses like
“your chic aunt.”
And like a fond
relative, she kept
giving her best
costumes to the
Angels. “They got
the first pick,”
Barrett admits, “so
I’m surprised that
Bosley came out
as well as she did!”
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