When Meghann Fahy’s Devon arrives on the fictional island of Port Haven within the new Netflix collection Sirens, she takes one take a look at the group and gives the next commentary: “What is that this place, and why does everybody appear to be an Easter egg?”
It’s a humorous line, but in addition a real one: surrounding her is a sea of daring printed attire, madras shorts, and Nantucket reds. Whereas black could also be a staple colour in Devon’s hometown of Buffalo (and, nicely in all places else), it’s actually not right here.
If The Good Couple and The White Lotus aimed to subtly show class variations by type, Sirens goals to hit you over the top with them. The residents of Port Haven—primarily based on unique New England trip locations like Nantucket or Martha’s Winery—are so preppy it verges on camp. Ladies put on Lilly Pulitzer-style shift attire and headbands en masse, whereas males put on colourful blazers embroidered with geese or lobsters (in addition to so much of Brooks Brothers). Outsiders like Devon, however, are marked by their grungy fight boots, tattoos, and heavy eyeliner. The visible distinction makes it apparent: pastel means you’re in, black means you’re out.
“We took all these colours and people silhouettes that everyone knows as kind of that upper-crust, blue-blood, one-percenter summer time aesthetic, and cranked the quantity up extraordinarily excessive,” costume designer Caroline Duncan tells Vogue.
When Duncan first learn the script for Sirens—a restricted collection about an assistant, her sister, and a strong billionaire couple that rule a moneyed summer time enclave—Lilly Pulitzer was written into it. She then promptly ordered a duplicate of The Official Preppy Handbook, Lisa Birnbach’s basic Nineteen Eighties survey of WASP codes and tradition, for everybody in her division. They adopted its tongue-in-cheek gown guidelines to a T, from the suitable toe shapes of boater footwear (almond or sq.) to when one ought to put on a madras print versus windowpane. (“Madras is daytime—madras is to the nation membership,” Duncan explains, laughing. “Windowpane can traverse into night.”)
