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“A note that Ryan gave very early on was that he wanted the show to kind of be a showcase for ’90s minimalism,” says Love Story’s production designer, Alex DiGerlando. Ryan Murphy’s series about the doomed love of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette has certainly sent West Village girls to C.O. Bigelow for Bessette’s tortoiseshell headbands, but the same is true for Panna II. The show is equal parts a fairy tale about the era’s cityscape and interiors. Some of the sets were built to be mostly true to life — like Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s apartment at 1040 Fifth, which was based off interiors shot for a Sotheby’s catalogue of her estate. Others are more fantasy — John Jr.’s loft at 20 North Moore was drawn up from real floor plans but largely an invention as is the fact that the streets in 1994 are miraculously trashless. (New York City is Camelot here.)
DiGerlando spoke to us about bringing in “period correct” chairs for the Odeon, the two distinctive eras of Calvin Klein’s minimalism, and sprinkling in some of what Kennedy really did own — from a crystal skull to George Washington’s sword.
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