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In the higher stakes dealmaking and backstabbing of “Selling Sunset,” the Netflix reality tv show that tracks the drama of the Los Angeles residential actual estate business The Oppenheim Group, a single of the largest characters does not speak. It can not kind a believed. It can not even make a deal — although based on how you use it, it could possibly assist you land a single.

We’re speaking, of course, about the clothing.

On the show, whose sixth season landed final week, the realtors have stunned (and flummoxed) audiences with cocktail dresses that lace up the front, glass bustiers, massive blazers that somehow also reveal a lot of skin, and tiny leather gloves. Memes extol the outlandishness of the clothing. “Selling Sunset agents turning up to a broker’s open property at two pm,” posted one user alongside three images of actress Megan Fox in ultra-revealing cutout gowns and heavy makeup.

“You feel you know what clothing appear like,” another Twitter user said. “And then you watch Promoting Sunset.”

“We all recognize how considerably style plays into our roles and how critical it is that we, as the public say, serve appears,” says Chelsea Lazkani, who joined the show final season.

For viewers who are employed to switching involving sweatpants for Zooming and streaming on the sofa and tame separates worn for halfhearted returns to the workplace, the clothing on “Selling Sunset” appear to defy anything such as weekend put on and organization casual.

Bre Tiesi, the newcomer (and paramour of Nick Cannon), regularly seems on the show in a Thierry Mugler blazer with massive, almost villanish shoulder pads that cuts off to reveal the bottom quarter of her breasts. “It tends to make me really feel edgy, but attractive, but classy,” Tiesi says.

The show’s stars typically seem for a day of perform in neon cocktail attire, like a fitted neon green David Koma dress Davina Potratz wore in the middle of season six that has a lace-up cutout at the chest. “I feel if you reveal also considerably skin, you take away from your beauty,” Potratz says. “So I attempt to concentrate on a single element of my reduced physique or upper physique.”

Some of the cast members’ outfits even appear to resist the extremely logic of clothes itself. In a single scene, Emma Hernan wears a black gown whose bodice is a lattice of silk straps. She puts a shot in the bust of the dress and a fellow cast member drinks it from its perch in the silky grid as Hernan obligingly leans forward. In a further scene, Lazkani arrives at the workplace in a white suit jacket and matching trousers — and underneath, a white bikini top rated whose cups are two massive white flowers.

Amanza Smith, who typically wears cornrows or Bjork-like buns, weeps in a nude tattoo top rated that extends more than her complete hands, awkwardly wiping away her tears with her nude tattoo top rated-covered fingers. In reality, a quantity of cast members go about their days inexplicably wearing gloves — in Los Angeles! In the midst of record temperatures! Lazkani says she wears them “when I want to be in my masculine era.” When you see an individual wearing gloves on tv, she says, “they’re often about to be messy.” Carrying out surgery, committing a crime — or merely obtaining their hands dirty with drama.

The show’s elaborate wardrobing also marks a departure from the style of producer and creator Adam DiVello’s earlier shows, “The Hills” and “Laguna Beach,” whose stars are extensively credited with ushering the cliché “basic girl,” with boot-reduce jeans, leggings and stretchy T-shirts.

As an alternative, flashy designers like Versace, LaQuan Smith and Dion Lee are the cast’s favorites. Overlook “quiet luxury.” These clothing command interest — encouraging lingering, even distracting stares — and refuse to apologize for it.

The group behind the show has encouraged the outlandish clothing, cast members say. “I feel the production [started to] concentrate a small bit additional on the appear and style, and they would do slow-mo entries into scenes and seriously sort of function the men and women that had been wearing additional bold or outrageous outfits,” Potratz says. “So we, of course, noticed that as nicely. All of us want to appear very good and stand out, and everyone’s stepping it up and going additional and additional and additional and attempting to see what sort of entertaining style they can experiment with.”

Potratz also points to the influence of Christine Quinn, who left at the finish of final season below a cloud of murky ethics. She dressed “above and beyond,” Potratz says, and even appeared as a celebrity guest at a quantity of style shows in New York this previous style season. (Quinn declined to comment for this story.)

But possibly no one’s outfits stretch the limits of plausibility additional than Lazkani’s. In an early episode, she arrives at a broker’s open — primarily a cocktail celebration for brokers to show off a new home, exactly where the show’s drama regularly crescendos — wearing a white porcelain bustier dress with a leather handbag whose front is sculpted to resemble female anatomy. That piece was by artist Stef Van Looveren Lazkani says she wanted to use the show to spotlight independent designers.

In a further scene, she meets a fellow broker for coffee in a leather wrap belt skirt by Diesel — an item that went viral on higher style social media this year, when purchasers realized it was practically implausible as a skirt — and struggles to sit down. (She at some point does so, although the angle of her chair blocks her beneath the hips.)

But wait a minute — are not all these men and women in the organization of promoting multimillion-dollar actual estate? Lazkani says displaying her character by way of her clothing aids her clientele see her as a actual particular person. Tiesi says her suiting aids her really feel like a boss. “You dress for the job you want,” she says.

Maintaining up with the Oppenheim colleagues is no quick activity. Practically all of the cast members use stylists, a number of stated in interviews. The stylists can charge anyplace from $800 to $two,000 per appear, on top rated of which the cast members spend to rent the clothing, which is typically 20 % of the retail expense. Some perform with showrooms that lend or let them to rent samples. (Some, like Lazkani, do not use a stylist and obtain all of their clothing.)

Does the show assist the cast with all these fees? “Absolutely not,” Tiesi says. “They do not assist us with something.”

Cast members say they commonly spent two hours or additional in hair and makeup — there are spray tans and manicures and pedicures to be performed, following all — and some, like Tiesi, have told production they will film just a single scene a day to retain their wardrobe preparation to a minimum. (Cast members say they do certainly dress like this even when they are not filming, dressing down only on uncommon occasions. “It’s to the nines,” Tiesi says of her sense of style.)

Other individuals describe a relentless chase to have adequate outfits: Probably you commence the day filming in the workplace — there’s a single outfit — and then you need to have a further appear for a birthday dinner that evening. And let’s say an individual gets in a fight at dinner (Did you attain out to my client behind my back? Did you inadequately confront an individual at a celebration 3 scenes ago?!) and you could possibly uncover oneself getting to film a scene the subsequent morning, to confront or comfort an individual — that is a further outfit. “You sort of have to have some stuff prepared to go,” Potratz says.

“It can be exhausting,” she says, “because you have to do all the obtaining prepared, and then you have the actual drama taking place, and then you have to program for the subsequent outfit.”

But it is not that tiring. “I could in no way be exhausted of style,” Tiesi says.

Alexis Williams contributed to this report.