Makeover Montage: A Fashion in Film Podcast

CAMP MAKEOVER MONTAGE IN SESSION! Get your tube socks rolled up to your knees and your dolphin shorts hiked up even higher, because Makeover Montage is back from our summer vacation! Before we officially enter our Fall Goth era, we’re saying buh-bye to the summer with a lil catch-up episode. Marie and Blaire talk about what they’ve been watching (Girlfriends, The Summer I Turned Pretty), what they’ve been shopping (wa...

Writer and author Krista Burton is on the pod to discuss the Wachowskis’ iconic lesbian neo-noir film, Bound! She also tells us all about her incredible new book, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America, and her experiences traveling the country to write it! Now, for those who haven’t seen Bound, it stars Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly as Corky and Violet, an ex-con and gangster girlf...

Pearl movie fans, get ready! We had the pleasure of having the extremely talented costume designer Malgosia Turzanska on the pod to discuss her incredible work! We get into the nitty gritty of The Green Knight, which has the most breathtaking, intricate costumes, and she talks about the witchy inscriptions she included in the garments, as well as working with interesting vegan leathers. And yes, she’s also behind the ...

Costume designer Christina Flannery joins us to talk about her work on The Righteous Gemstones season 3! She gives us all the deets about jumping off from the established blueprint created by season 1 & 2 costume designer Sarah Trost (who we had on the pod before!) and how she added in her own magic for this season. That magic, ahem, includes a watermelon jumpsuit, Smut Buster t-shirts, intricate Cape and Pistol unifo...

Pop open your champagne and Topo Chico, because it’s Makeover Montage’s 200th episode! Blaire and Marie taking a moment to reflect on the past five years, discussing their favorite episodes and makeover moments, They also give updates on their Add 2 Carts, what they actually purchased from past episodes. Plus, BIG NEWS: we have a new costume partyline! Call us at ‪(323) 487-2383‬! We wanna hear your movie requests, an...

We are absolutely thrilled to have the fabulous Bri Luna of The Hoodwitch on the podcast today to talk about one of her favorite movies, She-Devil! The 1989 flick stars Roseanne Barr as a jilted housewife who devises a long-con revenge on her cheating husband and the romance novelist who stole him (Meryl Streep in one of her most underrated roles). Costume designer Albert Wolsky takes the characters through a fantasti...

The girls have gone wild! Beauty editor and on-camera expert Marianne Mychaskiw joins us for Mean Girls! We discuss Mary Jane Fort’s legendary costume design choices for the Plastics, including literally plastic PVC skirts, butterfly bra clips, and slogan tees. We trauma bond over the mall clothing store 5-7-9, go deep into the evolution of fake designer bags, and Blaire brings out her Mean Girls promotion merch: a na...

We’re shaking things up today with a surprise music video minisode! This time, we’re taking it back to 1996 with the one and only Baby Girl, Aaliyah. "If Your Girl Only Knew,” penned by Missy Elliott and Timbaland, was the first single off her sophomore album, One in a Million. Blaire breaks down this transformative era in Aaliyah’s career, and how this video was a true makeover moment for Aaliyah in more ways than one. On the fash...

Now introducing…Crown Princess Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi! On today’s episode, we are dissecting Gary Jones’s fantastic costume design in The Princess Diaries, which stars Anne Hathaway in her breakthrough role as an awkward Bay Area teenager who learns she’s a prin-cess! And we have Abi Balingit, author of the Filipino dessert cookbook, Mayumu, and fellow Bay Area teen to join us! Topics include the various...

Welcome back to the show! We’re kicking off our new era as Makeover Montage with a real gem: Miss Congeniality. The 2000 comedy stars our girl Sandra Bullock as a special agent who has to step into the (high) heels of a beauty pageant contestant to track down a serial bomber. Costume design is by Susie DeSanto (13 Going on 30, Bad Girls, Nashville). We talk about the famous lavender Hervé Léger bandage dress that Sand...

Did you miss us? We said we were getting a makeover, and that miiiight have been a double entendre. Fishnet Flix is officially Makeover Montage! We've still got that same fashion in film flavor and appreciation for the costume designers that make the magic, but with a brand-new name, look, segments, special guests, and new themes. Join us each week as we dissect the fashion and beauty looks in our favorite movie, shows, and pop cul...

Big news! It’s our last episode as Fishnet Flix, so we’ll be taking a break for the month to gear up for our relaunch and new name. But before we go, we’re putting another late ‘90s teen thriller notch in our belts with Teaching Mrs. Tingle. First and foremost, in this episode we learn that Blaire is, in fact, a Teaching Mrs. Tingle scholar. Costume designer Susie DeSanto put Katie Holmes in goodie-two-shoes button up...

“Sounds razor.” We’re continuing our theme of late ‘90s high school thrillers and diving into 1998’s Disturbing Behavior, which is about a group of teenage outcasts who uncover a mind control conspiracy at their high school. Blaire put her fake nose ring in for this episode to celebrate the film’s grunge style icon, Katie Holmes! Costumes by Trish Keating, who also costumed some of our faves, like Mother, May I Sleep ...

This week we have special guest, QueenSylvia Akuchie, costume designer for Bel-Air season 2. Every single character has incredible style on this show, from Will to Hillary to Jazz and Geoffrey! QueenSylvia breaks down everyone's look, and gives us the deets on how she incorporates her Nigerian culture in the costumes and seeks specific designers for each character. The intention QueenSylvia puts behind all of the cost...

"I'm not an alien. I'm discontent." We’re talking about one of our favorite ‘90s teen thrillers, The Faculty! In this Robert Rodriguez-directed and Kevin Williamson-written film, Aliens begin taking over a small town high school, Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style! The cast includes Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Clea Duvall, Usher, and more. Costumes are by Emmy award-winning costume designer Michael T. Boyd, but let's be real, The...

It’s She’s All That time! In this 1999 classic, cool guy on campus Zach (Freddie Prinze Jr.) makes a bet (with a young Paul Walker, RIP!) that he can turn any girl at school into a prom queen, even an artsy weirdo like Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook). Hilarity, synchronized dances, and romance ensues. This movie is a treasure trove of fun facts, a memorable cast, and stylish outfits, courtesy of Denise Wingate (Cruel...

Frost yourself! We’re discussing the quintessential rom-com, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. We talk about costume designer Karen Patch’s (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bride Wars) fabulous work in the film, and how she put Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson) in 2000s businesswear chic, an 84-carat yellow diamond necklace and, of course, that show-stopping yellow Carolina Herr...

Welcome back! We kick off season 6 with major news about the pod (OMG) and 2001’s Sugar & Spice, a movie about true sisterhood! The plot? When a high school cheerleader becomes pregnant, she and her cheer sisters get inspired by Point Break and plan a bank heist. Costume design is by one of our faves, Wendy Chuck (Confess, Fletch, Twilight, Hubie Halloween, Election) and features a seriously iconic bank robbery look, ...

Drewcember concludes with our final episode of the year...and it's a doozy! Come with us on a journey of complete chaos as we discuss the 1986 made-for-TV movie Babes in Toyland, which starred a tween Drew Barrymore  and a young Keanu Reeves. It's set in Toyland, a magical fairytale realm where Marie believes all TikTok fashion aesthetics are birthed from. Costumes designed by Evangeline Harrison. 

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