‘The Garcias’ Costume Designer on Dressing Powerful and Stylish Characters: ‘Not all Latinas Dress in Flowers’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“The Garcias” on HBO Max is not a period drama, but clothing is just as important for the characters in the day-to-day shenanigans of the Garcia family who are enjoying an extended Summer vacation at their fancy beach home in Mexico.Based on the Nickelodeon series “The Brothers Garcias,” “The Garcias” spinoff is the first English-language sitcom to have an all-Latino cast and creative team.
This time around showrunner and creator Jeff Valdez flips the original script, which featured three boys and a girl, by casting three girls and a boy.
The series also jumps forward 15 years and the Garcia kids, now all grown up and with children of their own, are surrounded by strong women. “I was raised with five sisters,” Valdez explains. “That was by design.” Valdez called on costume designer Natalia Collazo to dress the extended family, and that meant creating individual styles for each of the characters – thirteen in total.Natalia Collazo: We started with the color palette.
The house pretty much gave us the color palette for everything. What you will see is that there is a harmony of colors between them, even though they have a distinct style.Fabric was very important because it needed to be breathable.
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