As to be expected, there’s a crazy rich amount of designer gowns, over-the-top moments, and an overall obscene display of opulence featured in Crazy Rich Asians. In terms of the fashion, though, one particular scene stands out: Peik Lin Goh (played by Awkwafina) and Oliver T’sien (Nico Santos) act as fashion fairy godparents to Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), making her over for the wedding of the century and transforming her from a somewhat lost NYU economics professor into a fearless high-fashion force.

There’s music. There’s some dancing. There’s a lot of twirling. There’s a ton of colorful fashion—and equally colorful laugh-out-loud off-the-cuff snark from Awkwafina and Santos. It's a revival of a classic rom-com hallmark we haven't really seen in years: the getting-dressed montage.

It’s a feel-good scene that puts the tension on pause and suspends all the drama just for a second. For a moment, you—and maybe even the characters—forget what’s at stake: Rachel is about to enter the underbelly of high Asian society and go head-to-head with her boyfriend's mother, Eleanor Young (played by the inimitable Michelle Yeoh).

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Unlike some of the most memorable getting-dressed montages from rom coms—in which the heroine loses her glasses, lets down her hair, and suddenly she’s hot (She’s All That); visits an off-kilter dress shop on the way to break up a wedding and ends up recreating iconic movie costumes (The Sweetest Thing); or tries on her former heinous bridesmaid dresses for whatever reason (27 Dresses)—this scene feels more profound. The sequence aims to instill confidence in a character who's genuinely out of her element and provides pure joy courtesy of the delightfully extravagant fashion.

“I don’t remember [director Jon Chu] pointing out an example from another movie, but I can’t even think of a getting-ready scene where they try on so many dresses,” says costume designer Mary E. Vogt. “This was a scene that he really loved and he wanted to create from whatever costumes I gave him."

Because "high fashion can all look the same," according to Vogt, she set out to pick pieces that felt distinct and special, that would give the actors room to play. "I knew Awkwafina and Nico would be making jokes, so I tried to give something that would be easy," she says. "It’s hard to make a joke about a super elegant dress.”