Feb. 26--As John Hughes' "Pretty in Pink" turns 30 years old Sunday, costume designer Marilyn Vance recalled the divisive prom dress worn by Molly Ringwald's character.
"Oh, boy," Vance told The Huffington Post in a story posted online Thursday. "Molly hated that dress. She wanted to be like the other girls, you know, in a strapless dress with kind of a full skirt."
The movie, which was set in the Chicago suburbs, centers on teenage love drama between Andie Walsh (Ringwald), "Duckie" Dale (Jon Cryer) and Blane McDonough (Andrew McCarthy). Walsh attends the prom wearing a pink dress she created by cutting up other dresses.
"I won't say that I was in love with it. But that's not the character. The character was so original. She had a mind of her own, she marched to a different drummer," Vance told The Huffington Post.
"I said, 'This is Molly! I can't just give her a prom dress. So, anyway, John (Hughes) came in and said, 'It's the character. That's it.' There she was."
"Pretty in Pink," which was filmed in California, was released in U.S. theaters Feb. 28, 1986. The movie was re-released in some theaters earlier this month for the anniversary.
