Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show and in 2010.Photo:Apple
Apple
There’s no party quite like a Valentino party.
Alex makes a grand entrance wearing a one-shoulder black dress with a dramatic slit that looks like something that Aniston would actually wear. And if you did a double-take upon watching the scene, asking yourself if the dress is familiar, that’s because it is.
Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show.Apple
“It’s interesting — I had brought several dresses in, and while we were having the fitting, [Aniston] was like, ‘You know what I want to wear? I want to wear the dress that I wore to the Golden Globes. I think it was in 2010 that Valentino designed for me. I want that dress,'” one of theshow’s costume designers, Debra Maguire, tells PEOPLE exclusively.
“So we went to Pierpaolo to see if that was possible, if they would make that for her,” she continues. “And they did. That’s really what she wanted to wear. It’s very Jen. It’s very Alex. It’s very everything. It’s very Valentino.”
Jennifer Aniston at 2010 Golden Globes.Trae Patton/NBCU Photo Bank
Trae Patton/NBCU Photo Bank
Aniston’s gorgeous look was far from the only outstanding outfit in the room, though. In fact, it was a room full of fashion, and Beharie also wore a Valentino creation that might look familiar. Her dress went down the runway on supermodel Kristen McMenamy during the house’s March 2022 Paris Fashion Week show.
“When we were approaching the Valentino Gala, it was right from the very beginning that we wanted it visually to have a really, really cohesive look,” says another of the show’s costume designers, Sophie De Rakoff. “That was the perfect intersection of what Valentino was doing at that moment and what was needed for the show because they were just coming off the back of the PP Pink Collection.”
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Nicole Beharie and Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show.Apple
That meant truly leaning into the pink motif that Valentino was doing at the time and outfitting nearly everyone in the shade. Not only did this make the party feel of-the-moment, but it also made Alex stand out in her black gown, which the costume designers say was their intention in the “beautiful scene.”
Pierpaolo Piccioli and Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show.Apple
“In terms of Nicole’s dress, we worked within what was in that collection,” De Rakoff continues. “It was about finding the dress that would be the most spectacular, that her character would be comfortable wearing. That would work for Nicole as a person and her body type, but work for Chris Hunter, the character in that moment in the gala, which was how we landed on that specific dress, which Kristen McMenamy actually wore on the catwalk, but this one was custom built for Nicole so that it would work for her physically.”
source: people.com
