#Cast of my so called life full#
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I fed off their personal demeanors for clothes. had a little more street experience when they started. Langer are literally different types of people with different types of energy in their personal life. Rayanne was a big influence on her over the course of the show. In the first scene, she’s in a very feminine outfit with a floral skirt, but by the end of the hour, she looks completely different. If I found an item for Angela, I knew that her silhouette would have to be somewhat conceived around an item.Īngela’s look really evolves in the first episode, where you learn that she’s become recent friends with this wild child Rayanne. Sometimes it would be as simple as knowing Doc Martens are really happening and any kid that could get a pair of Doc Martens at that time would want them - so sometimes you would literally start with the shoes and go, Wow, I got these great Doc Martens, now what am I gonna put with it? Where normally, it’s the other way around: I got this great outfit, what shoes should I wear? I was kind of challenging myself that way.

I thought if I could blend something like that together, I could give her this whole kind of soft, vulnerable, protective look of who she was as a teenager. For Angela, I was thinking about the grunge movement and Kurt Cobain, but also the softness and silhouettes in Annie Hall. When it came to Angela, and every one of these characters, I had to conceive looks that I liked throughout my own history - meaning from movies, rock stars, whatever - and bring all the things I really enjoyed and liked to look at into these closets for individual people. I can’t remember anyone on television dressing like Angela. It was a lot of fun getting in there knowing I could do anything I wanted. I knew going into this job that this would be my last costume-design job, so I wanted to go out doing something different with these kids rather than what would be normal for television kids. I was kind of at the top of my field, and I knew I could probably negotiate a deal somehow, so I told them, “If you let me direct an episode, I’d be really into it.” They took me up on it. But when My So-Called Life came around, Ed Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and Winnie Holzman wanted me to design.

#Cast of my so called life series#

When I did the series thirtysomething, I won a couple Emmys, and after that, I thought I was done. I became David Carradine’s costumer back on Kung Fu and worked my way up the chain. I’d always wanted to be a director, but I was kind of a wayward kid, so that wasn’t going to happen unless I got into the system, and I did that through the laundry room. I started costuming just to get a job in the business. How did you get involved with My So-Called Life? But first, we discussed how he designed Angela’s heavily layered wardrobe, putting Claire Danes in that first plaid shirt, and why he never shied away from repeating outfits. As part of our My So-Called Life Power Hour, we asked Norris to walk us through every outfit Angela wore (minus sleepwear!), which you can click through in the gallery above.

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Somehow she made them work, thanks in no small part to the vision of former costume designer turned prolific TV director Patrick R.

One cannot think about My So-Called Life’s sensitive teenage heroine Angela Chase without thinking about so many oversize plaid shirts. Its cruel cancellation after just 19 episodes still mystifies and pains us, and the only remedy for it is looking at a bunch of photos of Angela Chase’s amazingly ’90s outfits with the help of the show’s costume designer.

#Cast of my so called life full#

We’ve counted down the season’s 100 best episodes checked back in on the bonkers fifth season of Fox’s Beverly Hills, 90210 presented an oral history of the first season of Party of Five heard crazy tales from the season-three writers’ room of Melrose Place talked to former NBC executives behind the Thursday night Must-See TV lineup and much more. But now? Now it is time to spend a full hour with arguably the best show to debut on the 1994 fall schedule: My So-Called Life. Welcome to day three of our survey of the hugely influential 1994–95 network-television season, which found Friends , ER, and My So-Called Life hobnobbing on the same schedule with Seinfeld , The Simpsons, and The X-Files.