‘Palm Royale’ Costume Designer Alix Friedberg on Crafting Kristen Wiig’s ‘Slightly Off’ 1960s Wardrobe
variety.comJack Dunn When you first see “Palm Royale’s” prospective patrician Maxine Douglas Dellacourte, played by Kristen Wiig, she is drowning off the coast of Palm Beach, Fla.
Despite her precarious position, Maxine is fabulously dressed in a pink cocktail gown embellished with tulle-beaded flowers and 20 yards of multicolored chiffon. “[Maxine] has this shiny positivity about her and it reminded me of little girls and their unbridled optimism.
So we modeled her a little bit after a doll or like how a little girl might dress herself,” says “Palm Royale” costume designer Alix Friedberg. “[The dress] feels very Maxine and very doll-like as I said before, so that was a good little silhouette.
As simple as it was, it was a really difficult dress to build.” Based on the book “Mr. and Mrs. American Pie” by Juliet McDaniel, the AppleTV+ series “Palm Royale” follows the fabulistic antics of Maxine Dellacourte, who after marrying the last living descendent of an aging dowager, does everything in her power to weasel into the Palm Beach socialite scene.
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