Costume Designer Stephanie Maslansky on Bringing Harlem Style to Luke Cage
In the first season of Netflix’s adaption of the Marvel superhero comic Luke Cage, Luke, née Carl Lucas (Mike Colter) emerges from a quiet Harlem existence to fight his neighborhood’s most nefarious criminals. With inhuman strength and unbreakable skin, Luke is in a unique position to go head-to-head, or body-to-bullets, with local gangster Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes (Mahershala Ali) and his lackeys, and later in the season, Willis “Diamondback” Stryker (Erik LaRay Harvey).
How Superflys’ Costume Designer Curated the Sensational Look
Costume designer Antoinette Messam got hired on December 18 to costume the suave hustlers of Superfly and on January 19, cameras rolled in Atlanta. “It was like the fastest production ever!,” says the Jamaican-born designer. Getting up to speed in a hurry, Messam went “power-shopping” over the holidays in Toronto, where she loaded up on Fresh Company clothing. She then scoured stores in New York, explored off-the-grid spots in Atlanta and scoured the web for online purchases.
Costume Designer Jane Petrie on the Royals Step Into Modernity in Season 2 of The Crown
Lushly shot, exquisitely produced, expensive and popular, Netflix’s The Crown is praised not just for its (mostly) accurate rendering of major and minor events in the history of Britain’s royal family, but for its credible portrayal of their homes and haunts and the clothes they wore there. The period costumes, executed in attentive, realistic detail by Michele Clapton and Timothy Everest in the first season, and by Jane Petrie in season two,
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 from now, the body is a mere “sleeve.” The mind, one’s true self,
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, was sourced by a small team led by costume designer Phoebe de Gaye,
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 costume design — the first to be honored for television.
Because wardrobe is so essential to character and story,
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 Elisabeth Vastola in boots, jeans and motorcycle jackets that owe more to Marlon Brando’s iconic Wild One rebel couture than cartoony costumes.
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 rest of the cast, in season two.
“I think it’s wackier,” Summers said of the new episodes.
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 following in WACO. The six-part miniseries on the newly branded Paramount Network concludes tonight,
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, Daniel Day-Lewis took his final on-screen bow,
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, the elite, all-female fighting force at the heart of the film. In part two of our interview,
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 is the central storyline in Black Panther. Survival won’t be easy (Michael B.
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 and has taken over Annalise’s wardrobe. Paolo has a knack for signing onto long running shows with huge fan bases.
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 perfect 100 to a near-perfect 99), score five Oscar nominations in a heavily competitive year and stack up a $40M+ box office against a shoestring budget.
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 robe and, of course, Versace-branded slippers. Without a word of dialogue, Eyrich and creator-producer-director-writer Ryan Murphy establish Versace’s luxurious life in Miami shortly before he’s murdered by Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss).
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 Civil War era Virginia, where she was tasked with dressing a largely female cast, set in a southern boarding school,
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 something of a return to his own milieu, in muted tweeds, with long, slicked-back hair. He plays couturier Reynolds Woodcock,
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 or worse, various factions want the Asset killed, and with the help of co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) and her artist neighbor Giles (Richard Jenkins),
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,
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 want, and the conflict it causes with what they have, drives the course of their lives. The most visual cue of their yearning comes from their clothing,
