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LA Times interview with Casey Storm, costume designer for the film Her. This interview was published in Dec 2013. Funny to read it now bc high-rise pants are definitely back.
![Screenshot from the 2013 LA Times interview with costume designer Casey Storm. The excerpt reads:
MN: OK, so I gotta get to the elephant in the room—the high-waisted pants. How did you come up with it? And are you tired of talking about it?
CS [laughs]: I’m so sick of the high-waisted pants. I really didn’t intend for it to be such a topic of discussion. When [Theodore friend] Charles walks in with his high-waisted pants it gets a laugh at every screening. The first time I watched it with an audience I felt like I screwed up so badly. I had to watch it with an audience a few more times to place the laugh. And I think what it’s about is that early on the in film you’re trying to grasp and ingest new information,. And when Charles walk in with an outfit that’s so obviously not our world, he looks nerdy and you can laugh, like “OK, I can accept the world that’s been created.”
MN: It’s funny that people always seem to come out of the movie making some crack to the effect of “I like the future but I sure hope we don’t have high-waisted pants.”
CS: It is funny. Everybody wants to know what year the movie takes place in it, and in the grand scheme of things, you can say any number you want. People will say, “this style, or that style, how far in the future?” And I always think: “How can I answer what year this fashion happened in? We invented it!” But you know, we’re doing a fashion line with [L.A. boutique] Opening Ceremony in conjunction with the film. And they’re a big trendsetter in the fashion world. So we may be seeing high-waisted pants in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreihyqzto3txeq6tkrht27pm53dzx5ak2rr33h4ztct6azaggbr2f2y@jpeg)
January 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
LA Times interview with Casey Storm, costume designer for the film Her. This interview was published in Dec 2013. Funny to read it now bc high-rise pants are definitely back.