Jacky Levy, the costume designer for Apple TV Plus’s “Ted Lasso,” knows that post-match ’fits are nearly as important to global soccer culture as the on-the-pitch uniforms.
.) So when it came time to dress Zava, the internationally renowned soccer god who improbably signs with Ted Lasso’s struggling AFC Richmond in Season 3, Levy knew precisely what to do. She pieced together his look — roughly 3 parts legendary Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 1 part skinny-pants icon Cristiano Ronaldo and a half-shot of Jesus of Nazareth — using real-life inspirations and an eye-watering amount of Versace.
To that end, Levy dressed Zava in a Versace graphic tee with the brand name cartooned across the front — but, Levy notes, always partly obscured, in a faint gesture toward restraint — and one of the“We tried to kind of, I don’t know, hit a middle ground where he was stylish, but there was a slight tackiness to him,” Levy says with a laugh. “And we didn’t want to go for that completely over-the-top flamboyant style. We didn’t want him to look like a rapper or something.
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