“Sirens” Creator Reveals the Story Behind All Those ‘Ridiculous’ Lilly Pulitzer Costume Pieces

Clothes are a characteristic of their ain connected Netflix's Sirens.

The five-episode constricted bid premiered connected May 22 and follows Devon (Meghann Fahy) arsenic she tries to person her sister Simone (Milly Alcock) to time off nan luxurious formation municipality wherever she's spent months moving for Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore) and her billionaire husband, Peter (Kevin Bacon).

Sirens has everything fans person travel to expect from a constricted series: meme-worthy characters, play and aesthetics galore. The show's New England-inspired wardrobe — nan plethora of colorful Lilly Pulitzer clothing successful peculiar — is already making an belief connected viewers.

"It besides takes a definite position to put connected a dress for illustration nan 1 Simone has connected erstwhile we meet her," Metzler adds, referring to nan pinkish floral dress viewers spot Alcock successful during 1 of her first scenes successful section 1.

However, nan playwright and screenwriter revealed that nan mostly of nan Lilly Pulitizer-esque clothing connected nan show is custom-made.

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"I emotion Lilly, I person immoderate Lilly, but it’s a small ridiculous," she shared. "There’s thing truthful saturated and agleam astir it. We’re truthful fortunate [Caroline Duncan], our costume designer, took that and conscionable ran pinch it — astir of nan worldly connected nan show that looks for illustration Lilly Pulitzer is really custom."

Metzler besides addresses nan lockets that each of nan "sirens" wear, saying that nan jewelry is simply a "status symbol" successful Nantucket.

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"It’s thing you tin only bargain successful Nantucket, they’re called handbasket necklaces, and they usually person ivory from Wales successful them," she explains. "But they’re very expensive, they’re handmade and everyone successful Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard is wearing them."

The show creator goes connected to picture nan portion arsenic "a small culty."

"It’s a small for illustration wearing a cross, for illustration a religion," she says. "You cognize thing that everyone other doesn’t."

Sirens is streaming connected Netflix.