“Something that people would want to be a part of.”
How about making it six-dimensional?
For better or worse, Rachel’s look resonated with viewers at the timeespecially those teeny crop tops.
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“I find that really fascinating because sometimes as we look back, we have a different perspective.
And there’s more relevance to it now, in a way, than there was even then.
Monica may have been the sleekest Friend, but McGuire was opposed to makinganyof them overly casual.
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Plus, I lived in Manhattan, and I never wore a pair of jeans.
Nobody went to the Odeon at night in jeans.
Nobody was, like, hanging out with friends and going to gallery openings in jeans.
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So I wanted it to be that New York, that world.”
PHOEBE
Artsy Phoebe had a more visually dynamic wardrobe than minimalist Monica.
I did all those shirts with the racing stripes down the side," McGuire recalls.
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“I remember my dad wearing those in the ’40s.
“We made all those shirts in the early days.
JOEY
As an unemployed actor, Joey was a good foil to 9-to-5 Chandler and professorial Ross.
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Outside of his disguised designer outerwear, Joey’s signature style was defined by texture.
ROSS
“Ross was our professor, so he dressed appropriately,” McGuire says.
“He had patches on his elbows, and he was very tweedy and very corduroy.”
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“Oh my God, that was hysterical,” McGuire remembers.
“We had a wardrobe joke in every script.
“The leather pants, that was huge, you know?
And having to rehearse, and getting it rightcouldn’t get ‘em off, couldn’t get ‘em on!
Had to act in ‘em!”
There’s nothing like the original, though, which was a bit of a feat of engineering.
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“It opened from the back.
“Interestingly enough, I’ve had to do that on other shows.
