We are talking about clothes.
On the show, which wrapped its sixth season last week, realtors wowed audiences in front-facing cocktail dresses, glass clutches, tons of tanned leather and tiny leather gloves. Memes praise the looseness of his clothes. “They sell sunset agents to a broker’s open house at 2 p.m.” One user posted three pictures of actress Megan Fox in a revealing cut-out gown and heavy makeup..
“You think you know what clothes look like.” Another Twitter user said.. “And then you watch the sunset.”
“We all understand how much fashion plays into our roles,” says Chelsea Lazcani, who joined the show last season.
For viewers half-heartedly used to rocking back-to-the-office pants and lounging on the couch and lounging, the clothes on “Selling Sunset” seem to defy everything, including weekend wear and business casual.
Bree Tac, the newcomer (and Nick Cannon fan), frequently appears on the show at Thierry Mugler in oversized, shoulder pads that cut off to reveal the bottom quarter of her bust. “It’s sad, but it makes me feel lusty, but it makes me classy.”
The stars of the show are often seen in neon cocktail dresses for a day’s work, like the neon green David Koma dress Davina Potratz wore midway through season six with a lace cutout across the chest. “I think if you expose too much skin, you take away your beauty,” Potraz says. “So I try to focus on my lower body or upper body.”
Some of the cast members’ costumes seem to defy even the logic of the costumes. In one scene, Emma Hernan wears a black gown. She shot up the bosom of the dress and Hernan obligingly leaned forward as one of her colleagues drank from her sahara through a silk grid. In another scene, Lazkhani arrives at the office wearing a white blazer and matching trousers – and underneath a white bikini top with two giant white flowers on the cup.
Amanza Smith, who often wears cornrows or Bjork-like buns, weeps at the top of her bare, covered tattoo that spans her full arms, wiping her tears away with her awkwardly bare fingers. In fact, several cast members spend their days incognito wearing gloves – in Los Angeles! Between record temperatures! Lazkhani says she wears them “when I want to be in my manhood.” When she sees someone wearing gloves on TV, she says, “It’s always going to mess up.” Operating, committing a crime – or just getting their hands dirty with drama.
The show’s sophisticated wardrobe marks a departure from producer and creator Adam DiVello’s previous shows, “The Hills” and “Laguna Beach.” Legs and stretch T-shirts.
Instead, flashy designers like Versace, LaQuan Smith and Dion Lee are favorites. Forget “quiet luxury”. These clothes command attention—retention-encouraging, distracting—and refuse to apologize for it.
Actors say that the team behind the show has encouraged foreign costumes. “I think the product [started to] They focus a little bit on looks and fashion and slowly introduce people into scenes and show people wearing more daring or outrageous clothes. “So we certainly noticed that. We all want to look good and stand out, and everyone is going higher and higher and trying to see what fun fashions they can try.
Potraz refers to the influence of Christine Quinn, who left under a dark moral cloud at the end of last season. She dresses “above and beyond,” according to Potraz, and even appeared as a celebrity guest at several fashion shows in New York last fashion season. (Quinn declined to comment for this story.)
But perhaps no outfit stretches the limits of plausibility more than Lazkhani. In an earlier episode, she arrives at a broker’s opening—essentially a cocktail party for brokers to show off a new property, where the drama of the event plays out over and over again—wearing a white swimsuit with a leather handbag that mimics a woman’s anatomy. The artist of that piece was Stef van Looveren; Lazkani said she wants to use the show to highlight independent designers.
In another scene, she finds her coffee buddy pimping in Diesel’s leather wrap dress — an item that has hit high-fashion social media this year, as shoppers realize it’s almost impossible to wear as a dress — and he’s struggling to sit down. (Eventually she does, even though the angle of her chair restricts her below the hips.)
But wait a minute – aren’t all these people in the business of selling real estate for millions of dollars? Lazkani says that showing her personality through her clothes helps her customers see her as a real person. TC says her outfit helps her feel like a boss. “You dress for the job you want,” she says.
Connecting with Oppenheim colleagues is not an easy task. Almost all cast members use stylists for interviews. The stylists can charge $800 to $2,000 per look, on top of which cast members pay to rent the clothes, which is generally 20 percent of the retail price. Some work with showrooms that allow you to rent or lease samples. (Some, like Lazkhani, don’t use stylists and don’t buy all their clothes.)
Does the show help the actors with all these expenses? “Absolutely not,” says Tiesi. “They don’t help us with anything.”
Actors say they often spend two hours or more in hair and makeup — there are spray tans and manicures and pedicures, after all — and some, like TAC, told the production that they only film one scene a day. A little wardrobe preparation. (They say they wear this kind of outfit even if they’re not filming. Even if they’re not filming, they’re wearing it only occasionally. TAC says her sense of style is “to the nines.”)
Others describe the relentless pursuit of having enough clothes: Maybe you start the day shooting at the office – there’s one outfit – and then that night you need another look for a birthday dinner. And let’s say someone gets into a fight at dinner (did you talk to my client behind my back? Did you punch someone hard enough at a party three shows ago?!) and you might find yourself filming a scene the next morning. To confront or comfort someone – this is another outfit. “You have to have some things ready to go,” Potraz says.
“It can be boring; “Because you have everything ready, you do the drama, and you have to plan for the next outfit,” she said.
But no That’s what he said. Tiresome. “I can’t get tired of fashion,” Tiese said.
Alexis Williams contributed to this report.