Catherine O’Hara Still Wears Her Moira Rose Costumes
Ever wonder what stars pack for Paris Fashion Week? For actor Catherine O’Hara—who touched down in the City of Light to attend Loewe’s fall 2024 show on Friday—her suitcase included a few particularly special gems. Namely, some of her fabulous Moira Rose costumes from Schitt’s Creek, which she still regularly wears in her day-to-day. “I brought a great little Balenciaga dress [from the show]—I wore it to dinner the other night,” O’Hara tells Vogue over the phone, post-Loewe. “They were really generous about what I could take.” Her nod to the character makes sense, given O’Hara attributes her foray into the world of fashion to her turn as Moira. “I don t think anyone would ve thought of me sitting in the front row fashion show before I played Moira,” she says. “It’s really opened my eyes to not getting away with wearing the cheap stuff I used to wear.”
O’Hara is hardly unfashionable in her own right, though. In the front row of designer Jonathan Anderson’s show, alongside stars like Pharrell and Meg Ryan, the actress looked impossibly chic in a tailored Loewe overcoat and satiny blouse. “The cashmere coat was just so bountiful and lush,” O’Hara says of the look. “I also wore a beautiful dark brown satin shirt with a black collar. And the heels were like slippers: They had the softest butter leather and were somehow really comfortable, with a beautiful pointed toe. They were both feminine and scary at the same time.”
The star’s personal highlights from the new collection, meanwhile, were the designs with theatrical, voluminous silhouettes. “The big, billowy pants looked like they were alive—the way they moved,” she says. “A lot of pieces that looked like they had lives of their own. And loved the formal tails with tails. What I love about Jonathan s clothes is that it’s so seriously beautiful, but doesn t take itself too seriously.” She says that avant-garde spirit and sense of humor is precisely what Moira Rose would have loved about it. “She would really love it—and also expect to be given several pieces to keep.”
Speaking of keepsakes, though, Vogue couldn’t resist asking O’Hara about the other staples in her wardrobe that the star has clung onto over the years. Turns out, her denim collection is particularly sentimental. “I have these jeans that I stole from my son,” she says. “They’re Hollister, and they’ve got really big pockets in the front. They just fit well—they’re a nice medium low rise.” She also has a pair of jeans from 1974, when she was working on Second City. “We did this trade with the Chicago cast, and the producer took us shopping,” she says. “I bought these jeans that have a zipper up the front. They’re really tight on the hips, and go unbelievable wide to the floor. They still fit!”
Following her whirlwind Paris Fashion Week experience, O’Hara is set to continue work on a few highly-anticipated upcoming projects, including her starring roles in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the second season of The Last of Us. “I’ve only done one day so far on The Last of Us, and I got to work with Pedro Pascal,” she says. “He’s delightful and lovely, and obviously a great actor.” As for what fans can expect from the Beetlejuice sequel, they can trust that it’ll be authentic to the first film. “It felt like the original shoot of the [first] movie, just really loose and fun,” says O’Hara. “Tim Burton was in great spirits. I have a few great outfits in it.” We can’t wait for that.
Below, see more photos from O’Hara’s Paris Fashion Week experience.
Photo: Courtesy of Loewe1/9
Photo: Courtesy of Loewe2/9
