When The Ringer asked "Succession" costume designer Michelle Matland for a shopping-on-a-budget tip, she explained her "mix and match" philosophy.
"[...] Shiv is wearing a Tom Ford tuxedo in one of the scenes [at Connor's wedding], but she's wearing a top with a gold chain attached to it, which was like $47. So, you mix and you match. In the scene where she's in the browns and the tans, the pants were silk, but the T-shirt came from Zara. So you can find something that equates to the thing that you're trying to emulate. You can cheat certain corners. Some things you can't — sometimes it takes a $300 pair of pearl earrings instead of the $10 copy that you find at Macy's."
So, you heard it from the costume designer directly: splurge on jewelry, but don't shy away from the occasional affordable T-shirt find.
