“She’s young, she doesn’t really know who she is, and she’s trying on different ideas,” Emmy-winning costume designer Alex Bovaird explained to Variety. “Sometimes she dresses more dainty, and sometimes she dresses like a boy. She did bring a couple of nice dresses because she knew she was going to dinner, but the price point is $100-$200 or cheaper.”
London-based, Emma Chamberlain-approved label House of Sunny is behind the Swan Lake sweater vest Portia sports in the first episode, as well as the knit halter dress and cosmic print set she wears later on dates with Jack, the British bad boy played by Leo Woodall.
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Lost in the sea of time and trends, Portia looks perpetually out of place. She wears knits in summer. She juxtaposes digital-age fast fashion with Depop vintage finds from the ’90s and early 2000s. Bovaird told Vogue she sourced pieces, including the below Y2K psychedelic print dress, from shops like Zoo Vintage in Rome and Los Feliz in Barcelona to mirror the way 20-somethings seem to be “dressing in a very haphazard, random way and borrowing things from different eras.”
“Our idea with Portia was that she doesn’t fully hit the mark,” Bovaird continued. “She really tries and some of her outfits are cute, but some of them are… naff? When we see her at breakfast, she’s half-dressed and looks like she’s given up, and then when she’s on dates with Albie or Jack, she’s trying harder, but she always looks scattered—and deliberately so.”
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