Shrinking’s Costume Designer Allyson Fanger Breaks Down ‘Imposter Syndrome’ Engagement Party Looks: ‘I Had a Strong Palette’
usmagazine.comSadly Bernadette Peters couldn’t make it.Everything certainly did not go Brian’s way at his surprise engagement party in Shrinking’s episode 6, “Imposter Syndrome,” but it did give costume designer Allyson Fanger a chance to “create a palette” for the ensemble.“I keep all the characters in a certain palette and I try to coordinate with production design and we work together because it gives a nice cohesive feel to the group.
Our main cast then all feel relative to one another,” she exclusively told Us Weekly. “I think it gives a nice intimacy to the group and it shows their connectivity subtly.”In the standout episode, which aired on February 24, Jimmy (Jason Segel) hosts best friend Brian’s (Michael Urie) proposal bash at his house after his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) convinces him to.
Other guests included Gaby (Jessica Williams), Sean (Luke Tennie), neighbors Liz (Christa Miller) and Derek (Ted McGinley) and a very high Paul (Harrison Ford).“Gaby was sort of the accent color, that pop color, and we put it in.
The flower arrangements and any kind of decoration in the house all sort of were cohesively in the same palette,” Fanger explained to Us. “It’s not something that you would notice as a viewer necessarily, but I think it permeates and even if you don’t recognize it, it’s there.”The night, naturally, didn’t go as expected for Brian. (Or Kevin, if it was up to Paul.) Amid Brian’s serenade of “You Are So Beautiful” to boyfriend Charlie (Devin Kawaoka), Jimmy at the piano vomits all over himself from drinking too much.
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