The Architects of Style: Mischa Barton as The O.C.'s Marissa Cooper — elle.com

On-screen fashion has become as paramount to a film or a TV show's aesthetic as its location. Manhattan's bustling cityscape may have been the fifth girlfriend in Carrie Bradshaw's 'Sex and the City' quartet, but her enviable, informed, and idiosyncratic wardrobe was the (oversize) rose pinned to the series' lapel. Fashion—and personal style, especially—has become inextricable from our favorite on-screen characters. And an outfit's psychological underpinnings reveals as much about a character as what she says or does. To celebrate the women who paved the way for the Blair Waldorfs, the Olivia Popes, and the Pretty Little Liars, we'll be chatting with a different architect of on-screen style from the past 25 years—be she The Muse, The Real Girl, The Shopper, The Rule Breaker, or The Spirit Animal—each day this week.

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