The Best Costume Design in 2017: You Can See Them Binge Watching Netflix

2016 has been an important year for Netflix. As the ways in which we experience “television” are changing and as we now look to streaming services, such as Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime, and Hulu, to see the most popular programs, we can now expect to see important work in costume design in these series as well.

 Some of the most important fashion in television of 2016 have been in the following Netflix original series:

1)   Stranger Things 

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One of the best-reviewed shows streaming on Netflix; the show takes place in the 80s and has a very campy feel. It's known for its costume design that makes the show feel so authentic. Malgosia Turzanska is a fashion designer who grew up during the last few years of communism in Poland. She said in an interview with Outtake that she was forced to get creative with the dull colors all around her. She found a whole world in the British Vogue magazines at the age of 11. Malgosia may have grown up in a dull world of fashion but her work in ‘Stranger Things’ is anything but that. In 'Stranger Things,' this spooky little town is brought to life, where monsters are the norm and the eighties revived through fashion.

2)    The Get Down

 

 

Photo courtesy of Vogue.

This Netflix original series, created by Baz Luhrman, takes place in the hip-hop days of the 1970s in the Bronx. Here “hip-hop and fashion are sinimous,” co–costume designer Jeriana San Juan said in an interview with Vogue. Vogue also said “the costumes are dead ringers for the trendsetting fashions of yesteryear.” In true Baz Lurhman style, you won’t be able to get these incredible fashion images out of your head after seeing the show.

3)   Daredevil 

 

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New York City-based costume designer Stephanie Maslansky is the costume designer for this new Marvel series that also takes place in New York City. She says when preparing for her work on the series that she studied the illustrations from The Man Without Fear, Daredevil Yellow, and the 1960s issues. She said in an interview with Tyranny of Style, “I wanted the costume design to reflect the illustrations of those volumes through a modern lens while maintaining a retro sensibility.” Her studying has paid off and through costumes this whole other world of New York is brought to life in Dardevil.

JULIA COPPEDGE