Makeover Montage: A Fashion in Film Podcast · Marie Lodi and Blaire Bercy

Flight Attendant Fashion and "Rich Face" in View From the Top (2003) With Macy Eleni

·1 hr 45 min·5 clips

Betsy Johnson, Moschino, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and Chanel all come up in the costume breakdown.

Marie Lodi opens by greeting listeners and naming the show as a costume design and fashion film podcast, Makeover Montage, not movie. Blair Bursey joins her as the other co-host. They frame *View from the Top* as an early-2000s movie that had slipped out of memory but was a pleasure to revisit. Mary Zofris's costume design becomes the center of the conversation. The pace stays quick. The hosts handle the designer credit with affectionate caution rather than stiff formality. From there, the chat turns into a hunt for labels and references. Moschino comes up repeatedly. Betsey Johnson does too. They compare a lime green piece with something one host found in their Depop likes. A Betsey Johnson lace sleeveless dress gets singled out in the Candice Bergen scenes. Leopard print is treated like a neutral. The trio also notice that each character gets an extreme color moment. Christina Applegate is matched with purples and pinks. Gwyneth Paltrow gets greens and yellows. They read that as the movie giving every woman her own bold palette instead of saving all the fun for one lead. That leads them to *Josie and the Pussycats*. They also bring in the escalator shopping energy of *Never Been Kissed*. The result is a loose, affectionate inventory of what the clothes do to the characters and how quickly one image can trigger another. The conversation stays sharp, conversational, and easy to fall into.

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A lively look at early-2000s style and costume character work.

Makeover Montage looks back at View from the Top as one of the early 2000s films that slipped out of view, and it stays close to what this show does best: treating costume design as character work.

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You want a very early-2000s costume time capsule around View from the Top.

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