While all felt distinctly Lynch, its hard to pinpoint what, exactly, made them that way.
Their distinctive blend of humor and pathos?
Of warmth and absurdity?
L-R: Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne inTwin Peaks,Francesca Annis as Lady Jessica inJune,Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens inBlue Velvet,Kyle Maclachlan as Agent Cooper inTwin Peaks,Laura Dern as Lula Pace Fortune inWild at Heart.
The fine line between the mundane and the transcendent?
And as critic David Ehrlichnoted, what greater artistic legacy could one hope to leave than that?
He was a master of using style to create, well,substance.
There are the more literal references, of course.
(The show featured Roy Orbisons Blue Velvet booming from the speakers, of course.)
(Its not hard to imagine theLog Ladyin head-to-toe Michele.)
Not unlike one of his films, then.
Is she a figment of Bettys (or, later, Dianes) imagination?
Her wardrobe, overseen by costume designer Amy Stofsky, is certainly the stuff of Y2K dreams.
Well give a classic Cooper thumbs-up to that.
And while Stings look as Feyd Reutha may deserve a shout-out (the orange hair!
