"The Carrie Diaries" is the prequel of the much-loved show "Sex and the City," which shows 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw's struggle to fulfill her dreams in New York in the '80s, according to MTV News.
"Our whole idea for this was I didn't want it to feel like the joke version of the '80s with people in those thin glasses or parachute pants where even in the '80s we were all kind of thinking, 'Is this a mistake? It think it might be,'" the Sex and the City prequel's executive producer Amy B. Harris said during at the Television Critics Association pane.
Harris seems to be enjoying the work with producer Stephanie Savage and "trying to have fun mixing and matching - staying true to the '80s while also keeping the clothes as aspirational and inspirational as possible."
AnnaSophia Robb plays young Carrie in the prequel.
"This is a younger Carrie. I mean, we're first meeting Carrie in 1984, and she's 16, so she's just getting introduced to New York and her first love and fashion, and she's really finding herself as a writer and trying to find her voice," Robb told MTV News in October.
Harris said selecting the costumes for the series wasn't a difficult task.
"There have actually been a lot of clothes out there that have been '80s inspired [like] really bright colored denim jeans," Harris said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Shoulder pads have come back in a big way so we are playing with it. What I love about having Carrie's mother's closet to play with is she's got a lot of '60s and '70s clothes in there ... so we are going to have that sort of how Carrie Bradshaw becomes the girl who does vintage mixed with couture."
As easier it was to choose the wardrobe for the show, there was a tougher task in keeping the '80s touch in the sets. Harris notes small details which they had to change during the shoot.
"We work really hard when we are on the streets of Manhattan," Harris says. "We travel with what we call our '80s kit with some graffiti, trash, gross garbage cans. The '80s was very different in Manhattan. It wasn't pretty Times Square. It was scary Times Square. We have to green screen out some stuff where we see in the background there's a 646 number on a building. Those numbers didn't exist."
