Everything I Know About Love's Fashion Is Indie Sleaze at Its Best (and Worst)
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Everything I Know About Love isn't conscionable a emotion missive to friendship—it's besides an ode to the precise circumstantial clip play it's acceptable in: 2012.
The Peacock series based connected Dolly Alderton's bestselling memoir of the aforesaid sanction follows puerility BFFs Maggie (Emma Appleton) and Birdy (Bel Powley) arsenic they determination into their archetypal London level with their 2 assemblage pals, Nell (Marli Siu) and Amara (Aliyah Odoffin). Together, they navigate bad dates, vocation woes, heartaches and humiliations—all portion rocking the precise champion (and worst!) fashions the 2010s gave us.
One of the biggest aesthetics of the clip was "indie sleaze," a manner epoch defined by skinny jeans, smudged eyeliner, cropped leather jackets, beanies and practically thing from American Apparel. For Appleton, donning each of these connected Everything I Know About Love was "a blast from the past."
"There were truly iconic things that I did have, similar the American Apparel disco trousers," she told E! News successful an exclusive interview. "I enactment them connected and I was like, 'You cognize what? I'd deterioration these retired again.'"
Siu was a batch little thrilled with the wardrobe. "I'm conscionable gonna accidental it, I hatred it," she said with a laugh. "I didn't truly retrieve it due to the fact that it didn't consciousness astatine the clip similar it was fashion, it conscionable felt similar clothes...But erstwhile we had to put connected shorts and tights, I conscionable wasn't a fan."
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That's not to accidental she didn't bask the novelty of going backmost successful time. "Nothing was flattering," Siu added, "but it was amusive due to the fact that it's very specific."
Odoffin, meanwhile, had a precise straightforward take. "Parachute dresses I loved successful 2012," she told E! News. "I deterioration 1 successful occurrence 1 that I love. And I emotion it. And that's each I person to accidental connected that!"
Read connected to get a glimpse astatine the very-2010s manner of Everything I Know About Love, as good arsenic details connected however you tin watch.
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