is about the trials and tribulations of a 14-year-old boy who's trying to fit in at school. But when you look closer, you'll quickly realize that something's a little different about the title character. Mainly, he's not a 14-year-old boy at all — he's a 39-year-old woman.
Here, we talked to Needham and Taiwo about what it was like dressing a full-grown woman as teenage boy, the biggest trends of the moment, and how the immigrant experience played a part in the costume design. POPSUGAR: Dressing a 39-year-old woman as a 14-year-old boy is a pretty Herculean task. What was your biggest challenge?: Well, we wanted to obviously compress [Pedrad's] lady parts, but sometimes, you still get a bump, or you get a sports bra line. You want to submerge people in the storyline, but if you see the bra, it takes you out of it. Being a designer, you have a higher sensitivity to it. So it was really about just trying to create comfort and reduce those lines that you'd see.