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Costume Designer Ann Foley on Creating the Cyberpunk Aesthetic of Altered Carbon

Netflix’s original cyberpunk drama, Altered Carbon, has become as known for the multifarious aesthetics it draws on — from Blade Runner to the works of Edgar Allan Poe — as it has for its philosophical leanings. Based on the novel of the same name by Richard K. Morgan, the show’s premise is that 300 years ...

By Susannah Edelbaum  |  May 29, 2018

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Costume Designer Phoebe de Gaye Brings Killer Style to Killing Eve

In the role of the international assassin known as Villanelle on Killing Eve, Jodie Comer is literally dressed to kill in a high-end wardrobe full of labels such as Burberry, Miu Miu, Dries Van Noten and Phillip Lim. The chic attire, which prompted Vogue to hail Killing Eve as the most fashionable show on television, ...

By Christine Champagne  |  May 16, 2018

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The Good Wife Costume Designer Dan Lawson Brings his Skill to New Detective Series Instinct

Dan Lawson certainly possesses the gift of garb. The established costume designer is an Emmy nominee for his work on CBS’s The Good Wife, and now brings his winning style to that show’s spinoff The Good Fight. He also is a recipient of the Theater Development Fund’s Irene Sharaff Young Master Award for excellence in ...

By Julie Jacobs  |  April 16, 2018

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Jessica Jones Costume Designer on Losing the Cape in Favor of Leather & Denim

Krysten Ritter wears jeans for every scene she plays as the star of Netflix series Jessica Jones. Technically a super-hero capable of jumping off skyscrapers and landing on the sidewalk without a scratch, the hard-drinking private eye from Hell’s Kitchen has no patience for the tights/cape/mask routine. Instead, Ritter’s character is dressed by costume designer ...

By Hugh Hart  |  April 10, 2018

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Broken Down, Dirtied, and Greased Up: Designing the Costumes of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Evil has never had a more sumptuous wardrobe than in Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), who fancies himself a great actor, utilizes thinly veiled, yet tremendously detailed costumes to fool the show’s dimwitted adults. Costume designer Cynthia Summers created Olaf’s many aliases, as well as the clothing for the ...

By Kelle Long  |  March 30, 2018

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The Incredible History Lesson That Informed WACO‘s Costume Design

Karyn Wagner has a gift for time travel. Her costume designs have populated the slave era south of Underground, death row during the Great Depression of The Green Mile, and a lush WWII romance in The Notebook. Her latest visit in history lands in 1990s Texas where a charismatic cult leader was building a large ...

By  |  February 28, 2018

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Phantom Thread’s Oscar-Nominated Costume Designer on Styling Daniel Day-Lewis’s Last Performance

As part of our Oscars week coverage, we’re re-posting our conversations with some of this year’s Oscar-nominees, as well as publishing new interviews with those vying for Oscar gold this Sunday. Costume designer Mark Bridges is nominated alongside Jacqueline Durran (Beauty and the Beast and Darkest Hour), Luis Sequeira (The Shape of Water), and Consolata Boyle (Victoria & Adbul).  On Christmas, ...

By  |  February 27, 2018

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Black Panther Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Creating the Iconic Panther Suit

Part of Black Panther costume designer Ruth E. Carter‘s many responsibilities included steeping the characters of the fictional world of Wakanda in a wardrobe that spoke to the real Africa, while retaining the mythic quality that the reclusive, technologically advanced nation required. We saw this in her work on the bald, beautiful and bad ass Dora Milaje, ...

By Bryan Abrams  |  February 16, 2018

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Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter on Designing Black Panther‘s Fierce Dora Milaje

Bald, beautiful, and ferocious, Black Panther‘s elite, all-female fighting force the Dora Milaje are quickly becoming some of the most iconic characters in Marvel history. Lead by Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia, Danai Gurira’s Okoyoe, and Florence Kasumba’s Ayo, the Dora Milaje are the protectors of the titular Black Panther, T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), whose ascendence to the Wakandan throne ...

By Bryan Abrams  |  February 15, 2018

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The Costume Designer Who Made Olivia Pope and Annalise Keating The Best Dressed Women on TV

The dreamiest clothing on TV lives on ABC’s Thursday night lineup. Olivia Pope’s (Kerry Washington) gorgeous suits and capes started a frenzy on Scandal and Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) is the most suave dressed lawyer in any room on How to Get Away With Murder. Legendary costume designer Lyn Paolo created Olivia Pope’s iconic look ...

By  |  February 8, 2018

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Costume Designer April Napier on Crafting Early Aughts Authenticity in Lady Bird

It’d be an understatement to say Lady Bird has taken the country by storm. After quietly positive bows at Telluride and TIFF earlier this year, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut has gone on to become one of the best-reviewed film of all time on Rotten Tomatoes (until a certain someone got the score lowered from a ...

By  |  February 2, 2018

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Costume Designer Lou Eyrich Outfits Iconic Designer in Style for The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Costume designer Lou Eyrich‘s handiwork dominates the opening of Ryan Murphy’s new series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (Wednesdays on FX) when the titular fashion designer begins his last day on earth swaddled in the lap of luxury. Versace (Edgar Ramirez), in silk pajamas, dresses for breakfast by slipping on a pink ...

By  |  January 29, 2018

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Oscar Watch: Costume Designer Stacey Battat on Creating the Cloistered Couture of The Beguiled

Costume designer Stacey Battat last worked with Sofia Coppola on The Bling Ring, which featured a gang of fame-obsessed teenagers in Los Angeles who use social media to track celebrities whereabouts, then rob their homes when they’re gone. For her latest collaboration with Coppola, Battat had to travel back in time some 150 years to ...

By  |  January 8, 2018

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Phantom Thread’s Costume Designer Mark Bridges on Styling Daniel Day-Lewis’s Last Performance

On Christmas, Daniel Day-Lewis takes his final on-screen bow, having declared his intention to retire after Phantom Thread, the latest from his longtime collaborator, Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in London high society in 1955, the film sees the British Day-Lewis, who has donned a wide variety of hairstyles, beards, and accents over his career, make ...

By  |  December 12, 2017

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Costume Designer Luis Sequeira on Giving The Shape of Water its Sartorial Form

Guillermo del Toro’s much-anticipated suspense-fantasy fairy tale The Shape of Water opens this weekend. Much of the moody, Cold War-era film is set in a secret government laboratory, where mute, kindly janitor Elisa (Sally Hawkins), forges a deep bond with a mystery aquatic Amazon creature referred to in the lab as the Asset. For research ...

By  |  November 29, 2017

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Costume Designer Alexandra Byrne Creates Sinful Style in Murder on the Orient Express

The lavish train ride of Murder on the Orient Express, the 1934 Agatha Christie mystery that ranks among the writer’s most culturally iconic novels, makes its second movie adaption premiere today (the first came out in 1974), at the hands of director Kenneth Brannagh. In recreating the world of Hercule Poirot, the fictional dapper detective ...

By  |  November 10, 2017

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1922 Costume Designer on Bringing Stephen King’s Characters Off the Page

The ‘Roaring 20s’ are often glamourized in entertainment, but there was a more pragmatic lifestyle on farmland in the Midwest. Costume designer Claudia da Ponte gets that tone just right in the Stephen King thriller 1922, setting farmer Wilfred James and his family off on a long and gruesome descent into madness. What the characters ...

By  |  October 31, 2017

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Costume Designer Sandy Powell on her Gorgeous Period Pieces in Wonderstruck

Opening this week is Todd Hayne’s film adaptation of the illustrated novel Wonderstruck, the seemingly separate dual tales of two different children who make their way to New York, each taking refuge in the Museum of Natural History, in 1927 and 1977. The book’s author, Brian Selznick, is regarded as a master of magic in ...

By  |  October 20, 2017

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The Deuce Costume Designer on Dressing the Pimps & Working Girls of 1970s Times Square

When it came to crafting an authentic look for the Times Square hustlers at the center of HBO’s birth-of-pornography series The Deuce (debuting Sunday), costume designer Anna Terrazas enjoyed an invaluable resource in the person of show co-creator George Pelecanos. Long before he teamed with David Simon (The Wire) to produce this 1971 period piece, Pelecanos ...

By  |  September 8, 2017

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Landline‘s Costume Designer on Bringing Back ’90’s New York Fashion

Most of us would like to think that the 1990s weren’t that long ago, but the age of dial up Internet, CDs and home phones has already been made into period piece Landline. Love or loath what you wore at the end of the millenium, you’ll definitely recognize some of these looks. Costume designer Elisabeth Vastola ...

By  |  August 2, 2017