Wednesday Addams’ Style Is A Master Class In All-Black Styling

It’s hard to say if the young goth — an outcast in a sea of real-life outcasts, ranging from sirens to werewolves, at Nevermore Academy — is being serious or just comically exaggerating her disdain for color. But, for the show’s costume designer Colleen Atwood, this was the starting point to embed the character’s style with pieces that challenge collective assumptions about Wednesday Addams, a morbid character that first debuted in the New Yorker‘s comics series in 1938, later developing into a TV sitcom in 1964 and subsequent films during the ’90s.