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Portia is a leading character in HBO’s hit show White Lotus. Harper’s Bazaar awards her the title “TV’s best-dressed character” -- she represents Gen Z fashion to a T

Vogue: Portia’s outfits are actually so bad that they’re good! You can tell they’re inspired by Gen Z trends, but Portia’s execution is... questionable

This Redditor: Even if it *is* a part of the costume, the outfits are still total garbage

This Twitter user would agree: Portia looks like she stepped out of a 2000s-era dress-up game

Refinery29: Ok, can you at least admit she perfectly represents Zoomers’ disastrous relationship with fashion microtrends?

In an interview with W Magazine, Haley Lu Richardson (Portia) defends Portia’s style. Portia is chronically online -- so she’s dressed that way. She probably makes people uncomfortable because she reminds them of themselves!

The show’s costume designer doesn’t get the controversy. Her outfits aren’t even objectively that bad! If people saw an influencer or model wearing one of Portia’s outfits, no one would bat an eye

NY Magazine writes Richardson had to go on the defensive one last time, after Portia’s hat-sunglasses-hoodie-around-the-waist outfit aired in S2’s final episode. But we should seriously cut her some slack, right?? The poor girl almost died