For the ladies of ‘Selling Sunset,’ fashion means business

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In the high stakes deal making and backstabbing of “Selling Sunset,” the Netflix reality television show tracks the drama of the Los Angeles residential real estate company The Oppenheim Group, one of the biggest characters doesn’t speak — the clothes.

“We all recognize how much fashion plays into our roles and how important it is that we, as the public say, serve looks,” says Chelsea Lazkani, who joined the show last season.

Some of the cast members’ outfits even seem to resist the very logic of clothing itself. In one scene, Emma Hernan wears a black gown whose bodice is a lattice of silk straps. She puts a shot in the bust of the dress and a fellow cast member drinks it from its perch in the silky grid as Hernan obligingly leans forward. In another scene, Lazkani arrives at the office in a white suit jacket and matching trousers — and underneath, a white bikini top whose cups are two enormous white flowers.

The team behind the show has encouraged the outlandish clothes, cast members say. “I think the production [started to] focus a little bit more on the look and fashion, and they would do slow-mo entries into scenes and really kind of feature the people that were wearing more bold or outrageous outfits,” Potratz says. “So we, of course, noticed that as well.

 

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