Wild costumes, elaborate musical numbers, and the misadventures of unrequited love: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend delivers it all! We are thrilled to feature Costume Designer Melina Root's imaginative designs in this year's Art of Outstanding Television Costume Design exhibition - her ability to keep up with main character Rebecca Bunch's fantasy musical numbers and real-life shenanigans is truly impressive. Co-creator, star, writer, and Executive Producer Rachel Bloom joined Root for an interview about their collaborative process...read on to learn the story behind the turkey bra, Root's dream costume for Rebecca Bunch, and what to expect in Season Two!

Can you walk us through your collaborative process on making the costumes? Do you two discuss ideas based on the script before sketches are made? How many ‘drafts’ of a design do you typically go through?

Rachel Bloom: On my end of things, we have an initial meeting in which we discuss concepts based on the script. A sketch will come in and Aline Brosh McKenna [Showrunner, Co-Creator and EP] and I will take a look at it before going forward with making the actual costume. Melina can speak about the process way more in depth than I can!

Melina Root: I begin with a script breakdown and any research that's needed for new costumes and characters. Rachel and Aline answer these questions, then we go through a series of meetings where I either present mood boards or sketches and we narrow things down to decide on a direction. Our joint creative process is very fluid - things change rapidly and often- until the build process starts. With costumes, I aim to support the actors' character work, as well as the physical demands of their movements. Once we've arrived at something that works in the fitting room - I send the photos to Aline for approval.

What musical number was the biggest challenge to design for and/or wear and perform in for Season One?

RB: For how insane our costumes can be they are all shockingly comfortable and dance-able. The biggest challenge for me is always dancing in heels - the "Sex with a Stranger" stripper heels were a fun little challenge.

Bloom in said stripper heels; courtesy of CW

MR: Yes I would say Rachel was a real trooper with those shoes! We now use dance shoes or sneakers for most musical numbers. I find the most difficult part of any number is to find the right tone and to figure out the transition from reality to fantasy. Since we don't do parodies, I try to extract meaning from our inspiration, and then mash it up into our own singular style. "I Give Good Parent" was challenging because I designed that prim blue dress with pearls and sensible heels to appeal to Josh's parents' sense of propriety - Rebecca presenting herself as a Harvard educated "good girl" - but what was the fantastical counterpoint? So I asked Rachel "what would someone like Nicki Minaj do?" and that's how we ending up with her in a turkey bra and panties, sexy dancing Puritans and Josh's mom a wearing fur coat and a gold grille.

Bloom's "Good Girl" Thanksgiving look