The Who What Wear Podcast: The White Lotus Costume Designer Alex Bovaird on Season 3’s Designer-Loving Blondes, the Catalog-Worthy Ratliffs, and Chelsea’s DIY Expat Style

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Alex Bovaird is the costume designer of the hit HBO show The White Lotus. Bovaird has been with the show since season 1 and has garnered acclaim for her fresh, evocative, and stylish costumes. This week, she joins Shopping Director Bobby Schuessler to discuss how she developed the look and feel of each character, her approach to choosing the right accessories, and her favorite characters to dress this season. Plus, they discuss the custom Jacquemus looks she sourced for Chloe (played by Charlotte Le Bon) and how she designed 34 different hotel staff uniforms to reflect and honor Thailand’s culture.

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0:18.6	Teas and Z Apply.
0:34.2	Welcome to the Who What Ware Podcast, your direct line to the designers,
0:40.8	stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion.
0:50.2	I'm Who It Wears shopping director Bobby Shusler, and today I'm chatting with the costume designer for the hit HBO show, The White Lotus, Alex O'Vaird.
0:55.0	Alex is a tremendously talented costume designer who has been with the show since season one, and her ability to story tell through each character's fashion choices has been a huge part of the show's success.
1:02.0	She joins me today to talk about all things, season three, from how she developed the look and feel of each character,
1:09.0	to choosing the looks that we see in the now famous
1:11.8	boat ride in scene at the beginning of each season. Plus, we get into how she sources the right
1:17.4	accessories and brands to highlight a character's journey, how Chloe's custom jacquemus look came to be,
1:24.1	and how she designed the hotel's uniforms to reflect and honor Thailand's culture.
1:29.4	It's all coming up on Who What Where.
1:38.4	Alex, thank you so much for joining me today. I am super excited to chat with you.
1:43.4	You're welcome. Nice to be here.
1:45.0	So as many of our listeners know, you've been the costume designer for the White Lotus for the
1:51.4	past three seasons. Can you tell us a little bit about how you initially got into this line of work
1:57.3	and then how you got connected to the White Lotus specifically. I started working in the costume department on a film in 2008.
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