‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ Costume Designer Breaks Down Kathryn Hahn and Merritt Weaver’s Most Meaningful Outfits

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Charna Flam In preparation for her latest production, “Tiny Beautiful Things,” costume designer Alana Morshead “stalked every book [Cheryl Strayed] wrote and everything [she] ever said, and put it into this show.” Hulu’s newest limited series “Tiny Beautiful Things” released all eight episodes on April 8, andis based on Strayed’s best-selling collection of her “Dear Sugar” advice column, “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar.” Kathryn Hahn stars as Clare, a mother and wife whose world begins to crumble — just in time for her to become an advice columnist.

Morshead immersed herself in the author’s previous work, diving into “Wild” and “Brave Enough,” in an effort to bring Strayed’s story to life through costuming nods and references to the author’s personal history. “It’s such a personal story,” Morshead told Variety. “I just wanted everything that Cheryl told me to be in the show.” The show follows Clare as she tries to repair her relationship with her husband Danny (Quentin Plair) and daughter Frankie Rae (Tanzyn Crawford ).

As the family of three slowly returns to their former dynamic, Clare begins to reflect on her family of three before she was a mother, and when her identity was just tied to being her “mother’s daughter.” Through a series of requests for advice, the anonymous “Sugar” reflects on the disastrous and rewarding realities of her life, beginning with loss of her mother at 22 years old to unexpectedly becoming a mother fifteen years prior.

Flashback sequences follow Clare in various stages with her family, audiences are taken back to the memories that spark “Sugar’s” advice.