Girls Gone Styled!
Those itching with anticipation for season three of “Girls” (debuting Jan. 12) can pass the time with the show’s buzzy new promo poster, which offers a sight previously unseen: Lena Dunham & Co. seriously gussied up in dresses and diamonds and pearls — oh my! The Vogue-style treatment is a departure from the thrift flannels and sale-rack finds of seasons one and two, and it has resurrected comparisons of the Brooklyn-based show to its more glamorous ’90s HBO predecessor, “Sex and the City.” Does this mean Charlotte — erm, Marnie — will finally marry Charlie and score a Classic Six? Is Adam the next Big? Will Hannah get a perm and shrink to itty bitty Carrie size?
Sorry, kids, but there’s nary a trace of “Sex” in this shot. If you look more closely, it reeks of hipster values.
The photo was lensed by Autumn de Wilde, best known for portraits of musicians like Elliott Smith, Beck, and Fiona Apple (a Hannah Horvath playlist if I’ve ever seen), with styling courtesy of Shirley Kurata, who recently affirmed that the photo is filled with layers that extend well beyond the mountain range of ruffles:
“The cast embraces how messy and imperfect life can be, as they struggle to make sense of their lives and relationships,” Kurata told Fashionista. “It was decided from the beginning that they would be in gowns, but it wasn’t so much to show the glamour of their lives, but the struggles and angst of their ‘happily whatever after’ existence. I call it the antithesis of the Cinderella story.”
According to Kurata, the photo doesn’t hint at an extravagant makeover in the upcoming season. Instead, the shoot provides subtle insight into the characters’ respective psyches: girly-girl Shoshanna is dipped in pink, Jessa’s rocking combat boots with legs uncrossed in unladylike irreverence, Hannah is just as bow-legged as ever, and Marnie’s OCD is perfectly captured in a sour shade of yellow (fittingly, the color of impatience).
So, for now, we can lay comparisons to rest and accept this as an ironic tribute to disheveled-glam. Besides, judging by the trailer Dunham still seems a lot more interested in wearing as little as possible. And as we all know, she doesn’t take fashion too seriously.