How ‘Pam & Tommy’ Maintained the Spirit of Pamcore, the Hair-Metal Craze and a Drawer Full of G-strings

Costume designer Kameron Lennox explains how Lily James and Sebastian Stan skirted wardrobe malfunctions to portray the 1990s’ most notorious celeb couple

Pam & Tommy
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Costume designer Kameron Lennox had a very busy Emmy season with her one-two punch of Apple TV+’s “Physical” followed by Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy”, a feast of two decades worth of fashion in two bright television packages. But for the latter, one thing became apparent for the 1990s-set look at America’s then most-notorious couple, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee — always make sure your actor’s thong is on point from Day 1.

“Something that happened on our first day of shooting was we had created the G-string thongs that Sebastian Stan [playing Tommy] wears, and we had to modify it to the size of the prosthetic,” Lennox says.

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