Iconic doesn't even begin to describe this walk down fashion memory lane with Sarah Michelle Gellar. Ahead of her new series Wolf Pack, the actress gives us the scoop behind some of her most memorable on-screen looks from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, Scooby-Doo, and more. Get your Buffy boots ready to go Behind The Looks!
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Matt Burke
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Producer: Ari Vega
Camera Operator: John Vogt
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
Associate Video Producer: Kellie Scott
Executive Director, Creative: Alexa Wiley
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Matt Burke
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Producer: Ari Vega
Camera Operator: John Vogt
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
Associate Video Producer: Kellie Scott
Executive Director, Creative: Alexa Wiley
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
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00:00Hi, I'm Sarah Michelle Gellar and today we're going Behind the Looks with Who, What, Where.
00:10Oh my gosh! That was I Know What You Did Last Summer which was my very first big feature film
00:18and Helen was from a small town that wanted to get out of her small town and had big
00:25New York dreams and her wardrobe reflected the fact that she had never been to New York City.
00:30It's really hard because you have to be able to run away from the bad guy but if your outfit says
00:35I'm about to run away from the bad guy then they know you're about to run away so usually
00:39you're in something that is not conducive to running away. In this instance it was a dress
00:47that she wore in a parade which was a green like a green satin that wrinkled a lot. It was my first
00:54experience ever with a leaning board which is basically what they give you on set so that
00:58you don't wrinkle and you don't sit down you just lean backwards it doesn't help at all.
01:02And then the shoes were so bad that at some point I actually just lost the shoes in the
01:06fight sequence and ran barefoot through the streets of Wilmington North Carolina or Southport North
01:11Carolina actually. Well Buffy's costumes were a huge part of who she was and what she was
01:15experiencing at that moment. When you first meet her she's this traditional essential valley girl
01:21California girl that doesn't want the weight of the world on her shoulders and she dressed
01:26accordingly but as she accepted the power and the responsibility her outfit sort of progressed
01:32with that but Buffy was always fashionable. I think it was one of the first real female heroines that you
01:37saw who did not sacrifice fashion for killing. The boots. The Buffy boots. We used to say when the boots
01:44went on you know the fighting was going to happen. I still have a pair of those boots in my house that
01:50I still fit into but I was devastated because at one point I think for a big fashion spread I don't
01:56remember what it was but our costume designer sent one of the pairs of the original boots to be
02:01photographed and she never got them back and I was devastated because we didn't have that many of
02:05them and that was the iconic Buffy boot. What did I keep for my Buffy wardrobe? I wish I would have
02:10understood to keep more of it not that necessarily that was an option because the studios like to
02:14take it back but you don't realize the sentimental importance that you'd have on something like that
02:20later. A lot of times at the end of an episode you're so sick of looking at an outfit that you
02:23don't always take it again if the option is available. Now I don't make that mistake anymore but I do have
02:30the boots still. The dress in season one where Buffy gets killed for the first time was a copy of a dress
02:39that I won my Emmy and I still have the original dress that it was the copy of. I think I still
02:45have the jacket she wore in the last episode but I don't have a ton. I wish I wish I had more. Oh I
02:50have a steak I have Mr. Pointy. Oh Scream 2. That was just such a highlight for me getting to be part of
02:57that franchise. I had just done the very first year of Buffy it hadn't even aired yet when I got cast in
03:03that movie and it was all of these icons at the time Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell and we just had
03:10a great time and that outfit actually thankfully was more conducive to being the girl that was killed
03:16in fact if I'm not mistaken I actually had sneakers and stretch pants and so that was amazing but I
03:22always remember in particular it's not fashion related but that scene with the phone which also
03:26is funny because now you look at that scene that phone is so ginormous but I remember that Wes Craven
03:33gave me one of the best acting tips it was just such a minor note but whenever you ask who it is when
03:39you're on a phone cell phone whatever you tend to look at it and say who is it which is such a weird
03:42thing because you can't see them I guess now you can see them but in those days it's FaceTime and I
03:47always when I see that outfit I always think of that. Girl intentions. Denise Wingate was our amazing costume
03:53designer and we had all of these ideas and she just made these visual dreams come true the corset
04:01the famous corset was built at a very famous Los Angeles shop called Trashy Lingerie which is pretty
04:07famous but they also do some of the most amazing intricate bodice corset costume work and I had never
04:14been in the store I was 20 years old I think and I remember the first time she told me we were going
04:20there I got all like blushy and shy and by like the third fitting I was like yeah I'm here and you
04:25become a member when you go there because I didn't want people just coming in to sort of look and
04:30ogle the clothing but it's they really do amazing craftsmanship and that's where the corset came from
04:35and then the kissing scene in Central Park was another one of those odd visions that I had and I just
04:41I saw this big hat not quite breakfast at Tiffany's but like ginormous and they don't
04:48they're not very common and so we uh we called it the church hat and we had to go to a store that
04:53like specialized in Easter Sunday type outfits but then all the hats were blue and pink and it was it
04:59was definitely like we went all over Los Angeles to find like the perfect black hat for that scene but
05:04her costume was so specific and and New York specific and it was a character in of itself when
05:10I first saw the crucifix I just kept thinking it's so ginormous like first of all that's a lot of
05:16cocaine in that cross but I guess Catherine was very wealthy we can digress on that probably not
05:20appropriate but I just kept thinking can we make a smaller one because how do you make that fashion
05:25and it was the same thing we went through on Buffy with the cross because Angel gives her the cross
05:29in episode I think seven maybe of the first season and obviously I was going to be wearing this cross
05:35forever and it was just like made by a prop master and nothing against a prop master but like you want
05:40your costume designer to design something you're going to have to wear it with every outfit and the thing is
05:45you know I have a tiny torso and the thing is like this big it felt like the Mr. T cross they both did
05:51Lisa Evans the costume designer from Scooby Doo that was such a great costume experience again almost
05:59every costume in that movie in both films were built from scratch those boots were a copy of a pair of
06:06Louboutins that we loved but did not come in Daphne purple and were custom made to match the original
06:12Louboutin and I think they had purple undersoles also as an homage to the original shoe but those
06:19costumes were epic and the second one in the big opening sequence which was like Daphne's red carpet
06:25moment we made this feathered jacket and it was great in theory because we needed a coat because
06:30it was so cold we shot the second one in Vancouver in the winter but the feathers just kept going up my
06:36nose and if you if you watch some of the scenes you can see me kind of doing this when I'm speaking
06:41because I feathers all at my nose seeing my husband in an ascot ridiculous oh the grudge yes that was
06:50such an interesting experience because we did if I remember correctly all the costume designing and all
06:56the meetings in America and then everything had to be shipped out to Tokyo and a lot of it was dressing
07:02for warmth because we shot the movie in the winter and it gets very very cold in Tokyo but what I very
07:09much remember about that outfit in particular was that we wound up having to do some reshoots in the
07:14summer while Tokyo summers get very very warm and I was roasting and so I had this great idea that I
07:21would tape ice packs all over my body because I had a sweater like I had layers so they wouldn't see
07:26them and it would keep me cool which was great except then the ice would start to melt and it would like
07:31drip and fall and the sound people would pick it up on the mic so they very quickly took all my
07:35ice packs away Ringer that was such a fun fashion show when you're playing twins and you get to really
07:42create the characters and obviously one of the main ways to differentiate between the two sisters
07:47was their wardrobe but Siobhan was wealthy living in Paris we had some fun with that in fact people
07:53used to really like do full commentary on the outfits on that show do revenge that was such a great
07:59experience Jen Caten Robinson who was the director had a very specific vision for the entirety of the
08:05movie that went for fashion that went for costume design it was all a big aesthetic she even sat down
08:12with me to approve what the office would look like how the wardrobe would fit and that outfit may or may
08:19not be hanging in my closet currently did I have any advice on how to play bitchy iconic high school you
08:24know I think if you've been a female in high school you know how to be a bitchy high schooler
08:29whether you were one or not you experienced it my one costume from wolfpack this was a running joke
08:37because I think I literally wore my arson jacket not literally I think I actually wore my arson jacket
08:43through every episode and would change my tank top and my cargo pants and it was the greatest because I
08:51never had to take time out of my day for wardrobe fittings but Barbara Vasquez our costume designer
08:56is one of my favorite people on earth I absolutely love her so we made up for it with her shoes
09:01because you have never seen an arson investigator that wears ferragamos like my character like Kristen
09:08Ramsey does every boot shoe moment was its own world and it's also like a nice give back to my fans
09:16because it is a genre that I haven't been in a long time and you do sort of think about Buffy and the
09:21boots and this is my modern homage take to the Buffy boots she wears shorter boots they're ankle boots
09:28she has a Miu Miu pair a Chloe pair but I mean she's an arson investigator in Los Angeles like she has
09:34some fashion sense thank you everyone this has been really fun reliving some of my favorite characters and their looks
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