![]() ![]() I had a big shop on the set of the film, where we had rented sewing machines. "I wanted it to be outrageous and stupid." Here, the film's costume designer, Aggie Guerard Rodgers, who also outfitted the eccentric characters in films such as The Witches of Eastwick and Benny & Joon, recounts what it was like to collaborate with the young style icon and to create the sartorial representation of Tim Burton's imagination: ![]() And whether she was wearing a schoolgirl outfit stuffed with crinoline, a nondescript painter's smock, or a blood-red wedding dress to match her evil stepmother's, there was something aspirational about how few fucks she actually gave. Unlike the rogue Babysitter who tired of the Club or Brenda when she finally stopped seeking Kelly's approval, Lydia Deetz was actually an original. Squeamishness aside, there was one element of the movie that always agreed with me: the elegantly morose Lydia Deetz, who was played by a then-unknown Winona Ryder. I guess a dead couple trying to scare the life out of the living just wasn't my cup of aged-eight-years tea. I never told Jess this, but I was always a bit intimidated by the subject matter. Jessica, my grade school BFF, loved the movie so much that every year, for her birthday, we'd settle in for a night with the Maitlands and the Deetzes. Growing up in the late '80s/early '90s, watching Beetlejuice with your friends was pretty much a rite of passage. The term "style icon" is one ripe for examination: Why do we worship others based on their clothes? How deep do these fascinations really go? And what if icons aren't exactly flawless? On the heels of our other digital mini-issues dedicated to segments of our collective psyches-from weed culture to how modern women think and talk about sex to why we're all just a little full of it-all week long will be exploring the pastime of finding ourselves in another woman's style. ![]()
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