Makeover Montage: A Fashion in Film Podcast

We're celebrating our THIRD anniversary today with one of our all-time favorites, Freeway! The 1996 cult film stars Reese Witherspoon as a white trash Little Red Riding Hood who's trying to make it to her grandma's house when she goes head-to-head with a serial killer. It's trashy, violent, and incredibly offensive, but worth it to see Reese in the role of her life! The costumes (by Merrie Lawson)...

This month we're celebrating Fishnet Flix's third birthday (!), and to kick things off, we've got special guest Ali Segel, co-host of the Webcrawlers podcast! She's here to talk about a real FF favorite: Romy & Michele's High School Reunion! We've been saving this movie for a special moment and the time has come! We discuss everything from Coronavirus romance novels, the entrepreneurial, DIY spiri...

Get your oversized patent leather belts out, because we're going right back to 2009 with Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring Isla Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood, a NYC journalist with a serious shopping problem. In this episode, Blaire comes in hot with the tea. Also, discussion about the beauty of over-accessorizing and rejecting that Coco Chanel quote, glove thoughts, and Chet Hanx...The wildly c...

Imagine a pair of jeans that automatically adapts to your shape...but actually wants to KILL you. That's the plot of Slaxx, a new horror movie about some literal killer...jeans. This isn't your typical Fishnet Flix film, meaning there aren't many outfits to talk about — but you know we love horror ova here, AND it's a movie about some murderous denim so we had to watch it!  For visuals of the cost...

We've got sumthin' a little different this week. It's a heavy, dark, revenge flick, but we PROMISE it's a good one. The recently Oscar-nominated movie, Promising Young Woman, stars Carey Mulligan as Cassandra, a woman who goes out to a different bar or club each night, pretends to get completely knock-down, blackout drunk with the purpose of luring a "nice guy" to take her home. At first, you don'...

It's a very special day here on Fishnet Flix! We hit tha big 100, babys! And we're celebrating our 100th episode with a trip back to Zamunda with Coming 2 America, the sequel to the 1998 Eddie Murphy comedy. Costumes are by our queen, Ruth E. Carter (Black Panther, B.A.P.S.), so you know there's not a bad look in sight. We talk about our fave outfits, all the gold and animal-themed jewelry we're a...

Where were you when you first saw Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio lock eyeballs through the fish tank in Romeo + Juliet? Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation of the Shakespearean teenage tragedy is a hyper-stylized fever dream that we're STILL obsessing over 25 years later. Costume designer Kym Barrett (The Matrix trilogy, Us, Aquaman) put Danes in those iconic angel wings while dressing the rival Mo...

In this week's episode, we cover a more modern rom-com with the most incredible costume design…Crazy Rich Asians! It is FILLED to the brim with head-to-toe iconique outfits, courtesy of Mary E. Vogt (Hocus Pocus, Batman Returns). We're adding silk pajamas and hunky Henry Golding to our carts, okayrrr. Tune in now! For visuals of the costumes, follow us on Instagram at @fishnetflixpod  DM or email...

Today's episode is on Waiting to Exhale, the Terry McMillan-novel-turned-1995 film starring the late, great Whitney Houston, alongside Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon, and Loretta Devine as four friends living in Phoenix Arizona, looking for love in alllll the wrong f***boys. It's a movie filled with as many irresistible lines as there are costumes — from designer Judy L. Ruskin (Sleepless in Seattle,...

We're kicking off Valentine's month with the moment we've all been waiting for, an episode on True Romance, the 1993 Tarantino-scripted, Tony Scott-directed film about a comic book nerd and a call girl who fall in love and go on the run. Yes, we see Gary Oldman with his locs, leopard print robe, and Jamaican patois, but Patricia Arquette rocks Every. Single. Damn. Look. as Alabama Worley. The cute...

You know we couldn't end Keanuary without Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure! While this 1989 movie may not be known for its costumes (especially as it takes place over just one day) the Bill and Ted look is easily recognizable, fun, and dare we say, relevant? The cropped sweatshirt look is definitely in these days, hello, Bill S. Preston, Esquire. Costumes are by Jill M. Ohanneson (Six Feet Under...

"There's a group of women who were raised by Mean Girls, and then there was the group raised by Dangerous Liaisons and Cruel Intentions," says our co-host Blaire Bercy. The 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Costume design, which won! James Acheson's gorgeous 17th century designs will blow your mind. Plus you get sex, scandal, and Keanu! For visuals...

Get ready to get goth! Today's Keanuary episode is about Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film that stars our beloved Keanu as a man who gets cucked by DRACUL himself. The costumes, which are by Eiko Ishioka (who won an Oscar for them!), will blow your mind. Serpent dresses, golden kabuki-style robes, armadillo-inspired armor. Enjoy! Episode notes: "The Costumes Are The Sets" - d...

It's Keanuary! For our foray into the new year, we're kicking things off with an entire month dedicated to forever hunk Keanu Reeves! Our first episode is on Johnny Mnemonic, a '90s cyberpunk thriller that takes place in the future, aka January 2021, during a time when a plague ravaged the world. Very surreal. In this ep, we also discover a treasure trove of movie costumes to purchase online and t...

LAST EPISODE OF 2020! Break out your leather chaps and cottagecore nap dresses and be inspired by the fashion in Bad Girls (1994). Our final film for Drewcember has our shero running from the law with the rest of the "Honky-Tonk Harlots" in the Wild West. YEEHAW, BABY! Costumes by Susie DeSanto who did 13 Going on 30, Nashville, Miss Congeniality and more. For visuals of the costumes, follow us on...

It's the third week of Drewcember and we're Riding in Cars With Boys. This one has Drew playing teen mom Beverly (based on an IRL story) and it mostly takes place in the '60s, so there's some cute looks from costume designer Cynthia Flynt (A League of Their Own, Preacher's Wife). Plus it co-stars Brittany Murphy and we're sad this is the only movie she and Drew did together since they have the bes...

For the second installment of Drewcember 2020, we're doing Boys on the Side! Drew starred in this 1995 road trip, tearjerker of a movie alongside her longtime friend Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker. Drew's outfits and hair in this movie exactly mirror her IRL style from the time ,which were a delight of course (even if the movie itself is questionable now). Costumes by Gloria Gresham (When...

We're kicking off our third annual Drewcember with a WILD CARD...Doppelganger! This weird, lesser-known film from 1993 film stars our shero, Drew Barrymore, as a woman named Holly Gooding who moves to LA and claims she's being haunted by her evil, murderous doppelganger! Costume design by Kim Tillman (10 Things I Hate About You, Wild Things, Cougar Town). Tune in now for '90s flower dresses and sh...

Friend of the pod Stephanie Montes is back with the best movie request, Hustlers (2019)! Since Steph is the founder and CEO of the boob tape brand NUE, we had to do a movie that has plenty of cleavage! Hustlers is THICC with loads of incredible 2010s stripper chic looks, thanks to costume designer Mitchell Travers. Tune in now to hear us talk about how pole dancing should be an Olympic sport, Step...

It's a very special Thanksgiving episode! As per Fishnet Flix tradition, we're starting with a sequel: Addams Family Values, which we consider a holiday classic! Blaire and Marie discuss our favorite fashionably morbid fam, including a new addition, Joan Cusack as Debbie Jellinsky. Morticia may be aghast at her sartorial choices ("But, Debbie...pastels?") but we love the balance she brings to the...

Time to break out your head-to-toe Fremi! (With an I, not an E.) We're taking it back to 1994 with A Low Down Dirty Shame, the Keenan Ivory Wayans cop comedy that features a highly underrated style icon…Jada Pinkett Smith as Ms. Peaches Jordan! Costumes are by Francine Jamison-Tanchuck, who also did our fave Boomerang, Detroit, Get Rich or Die Tryin', and Sister Act 2! For visuals of the costumes,...

We have a very special guest on the pod, costume designer Mandi Line! She's behind the looks for so many TV shows, like Pretty Little Liars, The Arrangement, Greek, BH 90210, Travelers, Shameless, Charmed, and more! Mandi is also the host of the podcast Convos With Costume Designers. Tune in now to hear her talk about how she became a costume designer and her process for creating characters' wardr...

In this week's episode (which is the final installment of our "Season of the Witch" series, we talk about our listeners' movie-inspired Halloween costumes. Then, we discuss the new reboot of The Craft…and we've got a lot to say (warning: lots of spoilers)! If you listened to our episode of the original 1996 movie, you know that it meant a lot to us, so we don't hold back on our general thoughts ab...

We're almost done with this month's Season of the Witch series, but wanted to sneak in a special mini-episode! If you've ever seen the 1995 anthology film, Four Rooms, you know that there's a segment directed by Allison Anders (Mi Vida Loca) about a coven of witches (including Madonna!) that gather in a hotel room on New Year's Eve to resurrect their goddess, Diana. It's short but sweet, and the c...

Are you in the mood for some grotesque glamour? Well, you're in luck, because our latest episode is about the reboot of Roald Dahl's The Witches! While Anne Hathaway taking on Angelica Houston's iconic role as the Grand High Witch might be a tall order for some, you'll agree that the costumes are a true feast for the eyes! Joanna Johnston ( Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Death Becomes Her ) is the desi...