Donna Zakowska has channeled some heavy-duty style icons in her work as the costume designer of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the looks she creates for Rachel Brosnahan as Midge Maisel in season three, which premiered Friday on Amazon Prime Video, are no exception.
"The first season was a bit more Audrey Hepburn [for Rachel’s look], while for season two I got a little bit more into Grace Kelly,” Zakowska tells The Hollywood Reporter. "There’s a feeling of Grace Kelly still there in season three, but the first episode opens with Midge at a USO show at a military base, and for that I was inspired by the images of Marilyn Monroe when she did a USO tour [in South Korea in 1954]. Her sexy version of that rugged Army image was a big influence, and then I sort of Midge’d it up."