How South Florida Theme Inspired ‘Father of the Bride’ Wedding Dress

In the reboot of “Father of the Bride,” now streaming on HBO Max, costume designer Caroline Eselin understood that she wasn’t heading to emulate either of the prior incarnations of the film when it came to generating the wedding dress worn by Sofia (Adria Arjona). Rather, she drew inspiration from the new movie’s Miami placing and the city’s vibrant design.

This time, Andy Garcia is the title character who ought to appear to grips with the relationship of his daughter and is established to shell out for her wedding day. The film, directed by Gaz Alazraki, revolves about a sprawling Cuban American spouse and children and the effectively-to-do Mexican American household Sofia marries into.

Sophie’s sister Cora (Isabela Merced) is a budding fashion designer tasked with supporting to build the wedding ceremony robe. Says Eselin, “We did matters via her lens when it came to Sophie’s dress and the bridesmaid attire.”

Given that Cora has a daring fashion sense, Eselin incorporated touches like oversize pop art-esque buttons on the sides of the bridesmaid dresses — “a piece of enjoyable art that you would see in South Beach front,” she suggests. The bridal gown alone incorporated refined vertical stripes.

But the gown underwent a transformation in the movie: The dress Sofia starts out with is not the 1 she ends up with. “At 1st, we built the gown with no the sleeves due to the fact we realized that was likely to be the finish product or service,” Eselin claims.

However Eselin tinkered with puffed sleeves for the first iteration of the robe, sizing up unique volumes. “We also tried using unique lengths of the sleeve and stored fine-tuning. I observed this wonderful organza for the sleeves, and that is when it all came jointly,” she claims — though it didn’t keep that way.

Sophie’s robe is not the only a person featured in the movie nevertheless. Her mother Ingrid (Gloria Estefan) has her bridal gown showcased in flashback. For that, Eselin turned to Latino designers. “That was a Carolina Herrera costume. We required to use a whole lot of Latin designers all over,” suggests Eselin. “It gave us a sense of where by Ingrid was in her daily life — her commencing. She’s place with each other, polished and has her desires. We see, at the time the marriage programs get likely, she’s getting herself yet again, so we desired to mirror that in her look.”