In the end, we wanted to show he played it safer.”Ĭostume designer David Tabbert (left) and Tomás Matos (right) on the set of Fire Island. “We wanted to show there was some hesitation there,” Tabbert explained. At the actual party, however, he shows up in far less revealing shorts. When the group prepares for the underwear party, Howie gets caked up in red-and-white underwear with a cut-out in the back. Tabbert also used different necklines to show Howie’s changing levels of comfort: crew-neck shirts when he’s feeling guarded and tank tops when he’s more confident. Short-sleeve button-downs from Bonobos and Saturdays NYC work almost as a “security blanket” for him, frequently paired with Parke and Ronen shorts. The inverse to Noah’s confidence, Howie’s insecurity is accented with an abundance of practical overshirts. A hopeless romantic in the body of a freelance graphic designer living in San Francisco, Howie craves a love with grand gestures and kisses in the rain. Noah’s friendship with Howie is one forged through working drunk brunch shifts together in their 20s and mutual solidarity as Asian men in the gay community. Swiader, Double Scorpio, Telfar, Patrick Church, and more. The Fire Island crew was often dressed in R. Tabbert also wanted to tout queer designers. Especially important was defining his approach to the film’s portrayals of class and delineating between our protagonist’s group of friends (budget queens who met working at a Williamsburg brunch spot) and the wealthy guys (a doctor, a lawyer, and a brand manager, the three rich gay jobs) they meet while going out, who are staying in a luxurious Ocean Walk house. With the film’s script in hand, he thought about how he packs for his own getaways: swimsuits that double as shorts, layers that can be thrown on easily. Tabbert himself has been going to Fire Island since his 20s.
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When dressing a movie about a place where many don’t wear much in the summer, costume designer David Tabbert treated each character’s wardrobe as an accent “to the scenes and emotions,” he told Vulture.
Just moments after their ferry sets course for the Pines, gaggles of gays pull off their shirts in preparation for the promised land. It’s a modern interpretation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice but with poppers and OnlyFans references, directed by Andrew Ahn and co-starring Bowen Yang and Margaret Cho. Fire Island follows a group of queer besties on their yearly trip of beach, boys, and tea. So it goes too for Fire Island, the new romantic comedy (streaming on Hulu now) written by and starring Joel Kim Booster. Home to underwear parties and the Meat Rack, the gay haven known as Fire Island is largely clothing optional.