Photo: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer In Licorice Pizza, Alana Haim plays Alana Kane, a Valley-dwelling firecracker who’s not a girl, not yet a woman, and not quite sure which one she wants people to think she is. Alana — who self-identifies as 25, then 28, but who could also be 22 — suffers from a case of Peter Pan syndrome so unchecked that she can’t stop hanging out with charismatic 15-year-olds, but she’s also desperate to move out of her parents’ house and date aspiring local politicians.
Because Alana’s identity is in constant, chaotic flux, Bridges also had to imagine how she might tweak her sense of style for each specific moment and its accompanying persona. “Her fashion sense is a little chameleonlike. She’ll dress for the occasion, what she thinks she should be wearing,” he says.
Once Bridges put together a closet for Alana Kane, he met up with Alana Haim — whom he says had been “really working very hard to have a ’70s, slim, rock-and roll-look” to fit the character — to try it all on and talk it through before making any final decisions. “Clothes have their own character,” he says.
Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The execution: The brown minidress is a real vintage piece tailored by Bridges and Kalend to fit Alana perfectly. Bridges can’t remember where he found it, though he suspects it was one of “half a dozen costume shops” that he frequented. “It was so exciting to find that because those little dresses that would have been purchased at Chess King or whatever, those mall stores, they didn’t last,” he says. “There’s not a lot of examples of that out there.
Photo: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer The execution: This outfit has the most idiosyncratic origin story: Bridges and Kalend found a paisley maxi dress at a vintage store in Los Angeles, then spent several days recutting it into a two-piece. “The top was already how it is in the movie, but Margarita had all the fabric from the bottom skirt that went to the floor, so she just cut it apart,” says Bridges.
The concept: “Paul had asked for some T-shirts for Alana that had some writing on them,” says Bridges. “I thought, ‘What seems specific to that moment in time?’ And ‘You’ve come a long way, baby,’ was a slogan for a brand of cigarettes that was geared toward women [Virginia Slims].” Bridges also knew he’d have Alana wear the T-shirts without a bra, as was the style of the ’70s. “She was comfortable with it, and it was very much of the period,” he says.
The concept: For this scene, Bridges wanted something “unlike anything else Alana has worn, because she’s never gone to an audition.” His vision for the outfit was something “a little awkward, a little inappropriate for her age,” something to indicate her lack of experience and comfortability with the whole thing. “It was such a weird babydoll look from that period that’s in all of the yearbooks and things,” he laughs. “That was the style of the moment. So that was really fun.
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