<em>Margo’s Got Money Troubles</em> Costumes Bring the OnlyFans Fantasy Into the Real World

Reported by Harper's Bazaar.

Fashion is rarely the first thing anyone associates with OnlyFans. And yet, for costume designer Mirren Gordon-Crozier, dressing Margo's Got Money Troubles protagonist Margo Millet — a broke single mom turned digital content creator played by Elle Fanning — turned out to be one of the most creatively demanding jobs she's taken on. "I researched OnlyFans, but I think some of it is a little bit more tame than what we did," she says. According to Harper's Bazaar, Gordon-Crozier built the show's entire visual language around a central idea: that the most inventive dressers work with what they've got, not what they can afford.

The show — based on Rufi Thorpe's 2024 novel — tracks Margo from collegiate ingenue to overwhelmed new mother to the creative force behind an alien-themed OnlyFans persona called "Hungry Ghost." Gordon-Crozier mapped every phase through clothing. Early Margo wears sweater vests and collegiate mustards, subtly mirroring the professor she's fallen for. Post-baby Margo is inside-out shirts and milk-stained sweatpants — "any mother knows you don't really care what you're wearing," the designer notes bluntly. Then, slowly, color and edge creep back in as Margo finds her footing through cosplay and community.

Thrifted, Bedazzled, and Completely Intentional

Financial instability isn't just a plot point — it's a costume brief. Gordon-Crozier sourced heavily from Wasteland and independent designers, embellishing bodysuits with bedazzling and raiding vintage stores for cowboy boots. An Agent Provocateur cutout bodysuit — the kind Margo pairs with a floral skirt in a pivotal "I can be dangerous too" scene — was framed as a consignment find, because that's exactly how Margo would have it. A chunky silver choker from Collina Strada punks up a cheap pink Vegas dress. Pull tabs from the crew's soda cans became armor pieces for Margo's LARP-obsessed roommate Susie. Nothing reads as costume-budget-gone-wild, because nothing was. The restraint is the point.

What makes the wardrobe genuinely interesting is that it treats Margo's magpie sensibility — her love of sparkle, aliens, and anything with a little edge — as an emotional constant, not a quirk. Gordon-Crozier slipped alien graphic tees and spaceship prints into her everyday rotation long before "Hungry Ghost" materialized, so when the OnlyFans persona finally clicks into place, it feels less like reinvention and more like arrival. Fanning puts it simply: "It's Margo's world — it's very bold and vibrant even though we're touching on some difficult themes. It could have been bleak, but we're in Margo's mind."

At a moment when so much prestige television costumes women in either aspirational luxury or pointed drabness, Margo's Got Money Troubles makes a quieter, smarter argument — that personal style is a form of survival, and that a vintage girl with a bedazzler and a big imagination can dress her way out of the dark.

Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.