This is a thread of what design inspiration I would use to base both the narrative tone and costume/set design of a PPG reboot, a very unnecessary one at that.
The show is clearly an interpretation of the post war response to the atom bomb, a more secular society (Mojo Jojo is evolution) and an homage to mid century and space age design.
First off they wear these uniformed little dresses that are clearly lifted from Cardin with wide center band and bright colors in a straight shape as to not accentuate curves but supply a uniform. They’re super heroes, this makes sense.
If you wanted to even just do BLOSSOM as an example, this would be so easy just by looking at Courreges archive. Flowers, pink, button closure to side because she means business/de facto leader. Done.
Bubbles is easy too—ribbed cotton and softer fabrics because she’s so gentle, a bit simpler than Blossom
Buttercup, done, any space age leather and militaristic shit, if you’re hell bent on making sure she never wears a skirt give her a sixties jumpsuit or just put her in Tennis shit since she’s way tougher
Obviously every interior is a Midcentury delight in the show. The furniture style with the most available reproductions in fucking history
Also most important to note is that in their neighborhood in Townsville, they are the ONLY people living a super Ultra Modern lifestyle, with an typical family arrangement (PPG aren’t birthed by anyone, Professor Utonium gave them life and Mojo Jojos inteligencia)
ITS A CHAIR YOU CAN BUY ....NOT DIFFICULT
Miss Keane is comfy and likes her Aarnio Ball Chair to be alone in while she grades, simple! even knockoffs exist.
Your main villain trumps nature not only by being a fucking talking chimp, but by putting his lab on a volcano in the middle of a park—so much modernist architecture is about besting with the machine (Project Cybersyn is cybernetics project)
Once again, suburb right outside major city with modernist house that is also a lab—how atypical they are should be present in everything down to the clothes and mannerisms
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