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"  Cosmo: Do you have specific rules for what Olivia wears and when? LP: Kerry [Washington] and I are a little obsessive. Like, she can only wear white when she&amp;#039;s wearing the white hat. When she doesn&amp;#039;t know what she&amp;#039;s doing, she wears grey. If she&amp;#039;s in a lot of trouble, and she&amp;#039;s conflicted, she&amp;#039;s in black and white. At Saks this week, they were showing me all of these dresses and I was like, &amp;#039;Olivia doesn&amp;#039;t wear dresses. She only wears dresses in the past. That was when she was happy and in love with Fitz. Now she wears the pants because that&amp;#039;s who she has to be now.&amp;#039; She always wears a platform sole \u2014 Miu Miu, Prada, Gucci \u2014 to stay solidly rooted to the ground. But if she&amp;#039;s feeling vulnerable we&amp;#039;ll put her in a Manolo stiletto with a pointed toe, and she teeters a bit more. We change the shoes up a lot. People don&amp;#039;t notice.   Cosmo: Have you sent her anything yet that screams Olivia Pope? LP: Yes, I&amp;#039;ve been texting Shonda [Rhimes] and Kerry. I&amp;#039;m madly in love with Dior right now. They&amp;#039;re bringing back capes and I&amp;#039;m mad about capes. There are going to be a lot of cape and glove moments. Have you seen the Alexander McQueen capes? Just phenomenal. The softest cashmere and when you move, it just flows behind you. There&amp;#039;s already been a cape moment on the promo in the white Burberry. And we&amp;#039;re really pushing to bring back gloves. It&amp;#039;s kind of funny, because [Olivia] wore them last year and all of a sudden this year, they&amp;#039;re back.   Cosmo: Do you think you&amp;#039;re influencing designers? LP: I know. At the CFDAs, a bunch of designers told us they&amp;#039;re incorporating gloves this year because they just loved how the gloves looked on the show. I&amp;#039;m not going to say who, but gloves are everywhere now! It&amp;#039;s a huge compliment but I&amp;#039;m always sort of amazed that they have time to watch.   Cosmo: So\u2026 do Dior and McQueen lend you these capes and coats? LP: No, we buy everything. People are happy to loan us things, but honestly, in Scandal world, we never know if we&amp;#039;re going to flashback or flashforward. We need to have our hands on that piece for at least 10 to 12 days to film and then we might need it again if we flashback.   Cosmo: Do they give you a nice big budget? LP: Yes. They have to.   Cosmo: Have they upped it since the show has gotten so much bigger? LP: Well, there&amp;#039;s a negotiation that goes on. But they know we&amp;#039;re doing 187 costume changes in a one-hour drama. We are are mindful of not being crazy. I don&amp;#039;t buy the $35,000 gowns. I might look at them, but we don&amp;#039;t buy them.   Cosmo: You just stick to the $10,000 gowns? LP: (laughs) We try to have some balance. No disrespect because I loved Sex and the City, but when I&amp;#039;m talking to the producers about what we&amp;#039;re doing, I go, &amp;#039;Look, it&amp;#039;s not Sex and the City.&amp;#039; [SATC] was a fantasy and a huge fashion moment for television. Everything was brand new. I&amp;#039;d like to do a show like that where we can just throw crap and be like, &amp;#039;Here! Put this hat on! Because we can!&amp;#039; But I have to pull myself back.   Read the rest of the interview with costume designer Lyn Paolo on Cosmopolitan "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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