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Some of Quintanilla s most iconic looks have also been rediscovered through Netflix s
Selena: The Series, which honors the life of the late singer, played by Christian Serratos. In one scene, we see Quintanilla s iconic white rhinestone bustier. In other, her all-black ensemble takes center stage at the 1986 Tejano Music Awards
. Below, the show s costume designer Adela Cortázar discusses recreating her favorite looks for the show.
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Cortázar s design inspiration came from studying Selena s evolving style throughout her career. This outfit is based on an early gig with her band, the Dinos. A fashion icon of her time, she was immortalized for her sexy bras, stones, glitters, big hoop earrings, and red lips, Cortázar says.
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There is a grave earnestness to Netflix’s
Selena: The Series. It moves at a stately pace, has some clunky dialogue and some scenes that go on too long.
That’s not to condemn it. It’s an interesting journey into a part of the American cultural landscape that might seem very remote to us here. Besides, it’s about a saint, and that saint is the late Selena Quintanilla-Perez. In her short life, she took Tejano music mainstream, and the series is a sometimes solemn but deeply empathetic exploration of an iconic family’s history and of Tex-Mex culture. It’s as much cultural anthropology as it is a drama about a tragic figure’s rise to fame.
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Selena performs at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo in 1994. Photo courtesy the Houston Chronicle.HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Netflix’s “Selena: The Series” might have been over-hyped. It might deserve some of the harshest criticisms it elicited.
But no matter how much the series may have disappointed those who expected more Selena and less of her father or her brother, it has succeeded far beyond its ratings.
It has broken through industry obstacles to tell a Mexican American coming-of-age story, a Texas story, a Tejano story and, ultimately, an American story.