'Lara Jean is this badass, quirky, awesome individual,' says costume designer Rafaella Rabinovich of the beloved lead character:
continues — with "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," a new film based on the best-selling YA novel of the same name by Jenny Han.
For you grown teens who haven't read the book , here's the summary: Middle sister and high school junior Lara Jean Song Covey has a penchant for reading paperback bodice rippers , watching John Hughes classics and writing — and — cathartic love letters to her unrequited crushes.
To keep emo-dreamy Josh from thinking she's still in love with him , Lara Jean agrees to pretend-date jock-dreamy Peter, who also wants to make his ex, Genevieve jealous. But will it stay a ruse? Hey, I've watched enough '80s and '90s teen flicks to know how this could play out, but getting there was absolute, pure joy: tears, laughter, heavier tears.
To bring the characters to life via costume, Rabinovich looked to Han's book, worked off the script by Sofia Alvarez and collaborated with director Susan Johnson. "The entire movie has a palette," she explains. "As a creative team we all went for magenta, cayenne and yellow, which really helped us define a mood, in a sense."
Rabinovich looked to sources that perhaps Lara Jean herself would have looked to for fashion inspiration: '90s issues of