To celebrate the film’s quarter-century, Vogue spoke to costume designer Betsy Heimann about the lethal ladies of Pulp Fiction and their key looks.
He was very new and very excited, and his enthusiasm was contagious. Your director should be the one that inspires you to do the film, and I was totally inspired. I was deep into, like I said, who are these people: Now, in this scene, he should have the bolo tie on; now he doesn’t; now he’s dancing; let’s change his jacket here. With [Mia] I was like, What do I want? “Son of a Preacher Man,” love that song, okay, I can see her dancing across the room! And then I would tell Quentin.
Uma Thurman’s twist with John Travolta is one of my all-time favorite dance scenes. How did you pick her outfit? So, Mia Wallace: wife of the big boss, tons of money, but inside she’s kind of a bad girl. She wants these guys to like her. She’s totally barred from interacting with any man, so she has a chance to go out one night with Vincent, and she’s like, “Well, I’m going to show them I’m a Reservoir Dog like they are.” That was my initial inspiration for the costume, and so [I thought], Let’s make a girl version. Let’s give her some fashion. She’s got money.
And part of creating a real character is incorporating who the actor is. [Thurman] has this great body language and fabulous figure, so I said, “Let’s make it a little bigger. Let’s give her the white shirt, but let’s make the collar bigger, let’s make the cuffs bigger, let’s make it fit her a little better.” I’m sure you’ve heard this story. [Thurman] is so tall, and we didn’t have the money to buy her couture pants.
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