The movie's costume designer, Susie DeSanto, talks PEOPLE through the life of the dress and how often it's recreated as the years go byHedy Phillips is the Style Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, HelloGiggles, Reader's Digest and more.It seems like every year, the coming-of-age film finds a new audience who loves it a little more than the last.
She says she assumes if the dress was still out there somewhere, it would have been found by now — because collectors would probably have tracked it down. Unfortunately, no one seems to know where it is. Not even Versace has gotten the dress back. The fashion house did, however, recreate the iconic piece forto tell her how"beautiful" she looked as the modern-day Jenna Rink.
Ruffalo's Matty, who grows up with Jenna, then away from Jenna and back to Jenna, also goes through a transitional period with his costumes, but it's his wedding attire that has the best story, DeSanto shares.Spoiler alert: In the end, Jenna and Matty find their happy ending and get married. The wedding sequence was filmed but ended up being set for a reshoot to change the scene, and DeSanto says Garner wasn't fully in love with the wedding dress.