'Inventing Anna' Costume Designer on Transforming Julia Garner Into Anna Delvey (Exclusive)
etonline.comShonda Rhimes’ limited Netflix series about Anna Delvey above the typical true-crime drama is the designer fashions the characters wear onscreen.
Like, which Delvey watched to learn English, and, directed by David Frankel, who helms two of the series’ episodes, is as much about the fashion as it is about a young woman who pretended to be a German heiress to con her way through the rich and elite of New York City.
While speaking to ET, costume designer Lyn Paolo reveals the great lengths the craft team went to recreating Delvey’s outfits worn by Julia Garner and which unexpected character had the most expensive wardrobe.
Thanks to Rhimes, Paolo and her co-costume designer, Laura Frecon, were able to “play in the giant giant world of fashion” after the series creator told them to have fun. “And we did,” she says.When it specifically comes to Garner’s wardrobe as Delvey, who famously documented her designer looks during trial on Instagram, it took about three months to source all of her costumes. “We took a huge, really big deep dive into all things Anna,” Paolo says, explaining that she and Frecon “became detectives” as they dug into Delvey’s lavish lifestyle, first starting with Jessica Pressler’s 2018 magazine article and then Instagram.“We went down the same wormhole as Anna Chlumsky’s character did on the show,” Paolo adds, referring to Vivian Kent, who is a version of Pressler seen onscreen investigating Delvey’s story for magazine.In the end, they found 80 to 85 percent of what Delvey wore.
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