Elizabeth Holmes Never Quite Fit: Tailoring the Style of ‘The Dropout’

Elizabeth Holmes is weird.

The Dropout,” Hulu’s limited series charting Holmes’ (Amanda Seyfried) rise and fall as CEO of Theranos, certainly has more nuanced things to say about what led Holmes to perpetrate one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious frauds, but part of the series’ drive is Holmes’ essential strangeness: a mixture of ambition, intensity, anxiety, and fan-worship that is both unique to her and painfully of her time growing up in the Dot Com bubble.

And all of those disparate aspects come together in one instantly recognizable article of clothing: that black turtleneck.“We always wanted Elizabeth to be pretty much an outsider,” costume designer Claire Parkinson told IndieWire.

“She was always a bit off in style, never trend-driven, something was always askew or not quite who her mother wanted her to be.

So [her high school and college style] wasn’t necessarily as trendy as the Y2K fashion of her roommates,

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