Naturally, it was Lena Dunham's idea, the show's costume designer explains.
Did you see the most recent episode of Girls (Season 2, Episode 6)? Its most interesting elements were not characters, but rather a dog kidnapped from Staten Island... and a plastic dress worn by Marnie that would probably elicit raised eyebrows on Paris runways, no less in hipster Brooklyn.
So, about that dress.
In the episode, Marnie, played by Allison Williams, is helping her celebrity artist "boyfriend" throw a party for his art world friends — and while Lena Dunham's character Hannah shows up in a dingy raincoat, Marnie opts for a see-through plastic item that is certainly the edgiest, most high-fashion thing we've seen yet on the show. (Excluding that yellow mesh tank top Hannah wore a few episodes ago.)
But sorry to inform: you cannot buy it.
"I made Marnie's plastic dress especially for the episode," the show's costume designer, Jenn Rogien, explains. "It's two layers of vinyl — a metallic gold croc textured vinyl bandeau high waisted mini skirt under a charcoal transparent vinyl fit and flare silhouette."
Dunham actually wrote the dress into the script, Rogien explains. "It was inspired by a moment from Lena's life in which she got in a fight with her friend who was wearing a plastic dress."
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