Girls who used lunch boxes as purses back in the ’90s worship at the altar of Vickie Miner (Janeane Garofalo). She may have been the “quirky BFF” to Winona Ryder’s Lelaina in Reality Bites, but she was truly one of a kind. The film celebrates its 30th anniversary this February, but costume designer Eugenie Bafaloukos made sure to cement Vickie’s status as a style icon who could stand the test of time. Vintage tea dresses, Peter Pan collars, platform shoes, brightly colored tights, the perfect red-lipped pout, and a brutally honest, take-no-shit philosophy? Still want to be her. “Evian is naive spelled backward,” and Vickie is the ultimate Gen X slacker style queen.
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