‘10 Issues I Hate About You’ Is Simply as Pleasant—And Trendy—25 Years Later

Everybody seize your Prada backpacks and lace up your Sketchers, as a result of 10 Issues I Hate About You turns 25 as we speak!

The 1999 movie, which stars Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gabrielle Union, and the late Heath Ledger, is without doubt one of the many noughties movies that gave one of many Bard’s classics a extra trendy revamp. (Or, to cite Mr. Morgan, “Now, I do know Shakespeare’s a useless white man, however he is aware of his shit, so we will overlook that.”) The Taming of the Shrew adaptation was equal components imaginative and trustworthy—together with its full of life, of-the-times trend.

10 Issues’ costuming helps for instance the divide between the central sisters: Stiles’s mercurial Kat and Oleynik’s bubbly Bianca Stratford. Whereas Bianca is completely consistent with the ’90s aesthetics, from her butterfly child tee to her floral spaghetti strap costume, she’s additionally not afraid to take a trend threat. Her two-piece promenade costume—a pink taffeta boatneck prime with a balletic pink tulle skirt—was daring, even by 1999’s requirements.

However that doesn’t preclude Kat from having some eye-catching costumes. The elder sister’s darkish wardrobe underscores her doom-and-gloom character, from her camo-printed tank prime, to her leather-based biker jacket. Regardless that Kat spends a lot of the film a cynic, the costuming nonetheless managed to interrupt by means of her robust exterior and showcase her tender spot along with her basic promenade costume: an indigo quantity with an identical scarf and a string of pearls.