{"id":6835,"date":"2026-06-25T17:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/legally-blonde-prequel-costume-designer-dishes-on-dressing-elle-woods-in-nostalgia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:46:54","slug":"legally-blonde-prequel-costume-designer-dishes-on-dressing-elle-woods-in-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/legally-blonde-prequel-costume-designer-dishes-on-dressing-elle-woods-in-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Legally Blonde&#8217; prequel costume designer dishes on dressing Elle Woods in nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F132085122.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cElle\u201d costume designer Sara Byblow says she leaned into \u201cLegally Blonde\u201d nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was more about finding things that felt true to Elle and true to that nostalgic feeling that we were trying to build out, and true to our <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/21\/celebrity-news\/reese-witherspoon-selma-blair-and-more-legally-blonde-stars-reunite-to-celebrate-films-25th-anniversary\/\">\u2018Legally Blonde\u2019 universe,\u201d<\/a> she added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/22\/style\/legally-blonde-prequel-star-lexi-minetree-channels-elle-woods-in-pink-sequins\/\">\u201cElle\u201d explores Elle Woods\u2019 teenage years<\/a> as a high school student in Seattle, before she transformed from a sorority girl obsessed with marriage into a whipsmart Harvard Law student.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Sara Byblow says it was a \u201cdream come true\u201d to work as a costume designer on \u201cElle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jessica Brooks\/Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The series is a prequel to the 2001 movie \u201cLegally Blonde,\u201d starring Reese Witherspoon. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9MGM\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Byblow explained how she curated the looks for the show. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Byblow explains that there are \u201cdesigner\u201d pieces in the series \u2014 which has already been greenlit for a second season \u2014\u00a0but many of the outfits were found on the \u201chunt\u201d rather than by calling up designers and asking for clothes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was more so us looking for things that felt true to us,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Byblow explained that they didn\u2019t worry where the outfits came from, as long as they worked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have thrifted things,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have vintage things. We have archived designer things. We have things that we\u2019ve built. We have things that are new. It\u2019s truly a mix of the entire spectrum of clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The clothes are meant to evoke a \u201cnostalgic feeling.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Kimberley French\/Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Byblow says they were always on the hunt for \u201cfinding things that felt true to Elle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Jessica Brooks\/Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She also called the Elle Woods character \u201cso iconic.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9MGM\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Byblow, who also worked on \u201cFire Country,\u201d says being a part of \u201cElle\u201d is \u201cone hundred percent a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cThis character is so iconic and has truly stood the test of time, so to be able to have the opportunity to step in and help tell that story is\u2026I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pink-hued premiere was attended by the show\u2019s cast and the original Elle Woods: Reese Witherspoon.<\/p>\n<p>Witherspoon <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/24\/style\/reese-witherspoons-son-deacon-22-channels-dad-ryan-phillippe-at-elle-premiere\/\">brought along her and Ryan Phillippe\u2019s son, Deacon<\/a>, as her plus-one, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/article\/meet-reese-witherspoons-kids-with-jim-toth-ryan-phillippe\/\">22-year-old<\/a> re-creating his father\u2019s 2001 red carpet look from the \u201cLegally Blonde\u201d premiere, pairing a black suit with Ray-Ban sunglasses and a pink tie.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/25\/style\/legally-blonde-prequel-costume-designer-dishes-on-dressing-elle-woods-in-nostalgia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cElle\u201d costume designer Sara Byblow says she leaned into \u201cLegally Blonde\u201d nostalgia. \u201cIt was more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132085122.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}