sabrina lantos Costume designer Sarah Millman came onto witchy cult horror movie “Forbidden Fruits” with a constrained budget, a tight prep window and a cast of characters who each needed to feel visually distinct. The answer came from an unlikely collaborator: American Eagle.
American Eagle came on as a sponsor for the film in a way the designer described as unlike anything she’d done before. “A mall brand was helping fund a movie about a mall,” she tells Variety with a laugh. The partnership wasn’t just financial — American Eagle supplied the foundational pieces that grounded each character’s look, filling out the costume department’s racks and anchoring the aesthetic in something realistic, yet outlandish. “It really just grounded the film in the mall,” she says.
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