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influencer in real life (36+ million followers on Instagram as of this writing) and plays a similar fashion maven in the film. "She was incredibly sweet, and style-savvy. Although there were brands that wanted to send her stuff because she is who she is, she was open to and onboard with what was right for the character. And Tanner Buchanan had some really thoughtful notes. He was insistent on getting a T-shirt of a really hardcore punk singer named GG Allin, and the estate agreed. We put him in it when his character went to a Malibu karaoke party, which was hilarious." Some things are different, but other things seem to never change. Managing a budget will always be part of the process. "The original was so small," explains Wingate. "We did it so quickly, and we had no money. We bought all the prom stuff at thrift stores and just reworked it. We didn't have a ton of money on this one either, in the grand scheme of everything we had to do, so we did the same thing this time. We had a ton of fun, but you have to be resourceful when you're working with no money. You have to really think outside the box." Revisiting the recent past can be challenging because the looks are part of much of the audience's memory, and fashion is cyclical. For Wingate, those challenges go with the territory. "I worked a lot in the nineties on projects that were really fashionable. So, I remember what was popular and see things that are now coming back around. This movie is introducing these fashions to a whole new genera- tion." Of course, not everything is the same as it was the first time. "Everyone asked me, 'What is different 20 years later?' I said, 'Well, the 3:15 wake-up calls are a lot harder than they were back then… '" 30 The Costume Designer Spring 2021 Rachael Leigh Cook and Addison Rae Rachael Leigh Cook in She's All That Photo: Courtesy of Miramax Photo: Courtesy of Miramax