Costume Designer Ellen Mirojnick on Why Bridgerton Presented the "Challenge of a Lifetime" The Shondaland veteran reveals how her team came to create 7,500 costume pieces in … “There’s nobody in the world like [Mr. Pearl], no one.”. Bridgerton costume designer Ellen Mirojnick details how the costumes for the Netflix melodrama were created, how many there are in Season 1, and more. I also looked at what resembles the period best in a modern sense. JG: That look comes from Napoleon’s obsession with Greek and Roman aesthetics. It’s not just one piece that’s an illustration of what it means to create a Shondaland aesthetic, it’s sticking to the Ss: sexy, sumptuous, scandalous, sublime, skin. VV: What is the signature style of Regency London? VV: You were able to get Mr. Pearl, the famous corset couturier. VV: Figuratively and literally speaking, you colored outside the lines. The rich jewel tones, embellished necklines, and … This story has been shared 250,052 times. Created by Chris Van Dusen, executive produced by TV legend Shonda Rhimes and adapted from Julia … Fashion is cyclical — everything comes back around. But we just kind of forgot about that. VV: What was the approach for the color palette for the two families? EM: It was pretty spectacular — it was a little bit of both, exciting and daunting. “With the success, which is thrilling, we just don’t want it to look tired in two years,” Mirojnick explained, adding that she hopes audiences in 10 years will “dig it” the same way. This story has been shared 250,052 times. VV: What was the creative thinking behind not using any bonnets? I think it worked all very fluidly. We were able to hire the best artisans in London, and it is exciting to work in those circumstances. Shondaland participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. And you could see the flow of the styles. In the case of Bridgerton, the series starts in 1813. However, as the costume expert pointed out, some of the show’s most stirring scenes also relied on more subtle “choreography.”, “What’s really, really lovely, where you really don’t see anything but you actually feel a lot, is when they’re together and all he does is lift her skirt … that is just sexy unto itself, without really seeing the undergarments.”. Things along those lines,” explained Mirojnick, who looked to showrunner Chris Van Dusen’s script for cues. Below, Shondaland talks in detail with Mirojnick and Glaser about Regency fashion, the painter who influenced their color palate and the famous corset maker they were able to snag. In Bridgerton, the use of color was an important way to both acknowledge the past, but to also draw in a modern audience. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. His first wife, Empress Josephine, followed that style and the British took their fashion sense from Paris; that’s how it influenced London’s look. Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick reunited with executive producer Shonda Rimes for the innovative regency romance — and as the 63 million-plus households already watching Season 1 can attest, the show’s clothes are truly the “diamond of the season.”, “My main objective was to create a world that was aspirational, that I could take regency and twist it enough and be able to add modern elements,” Mirojnick told Page Six Style. “We only had a short two-week prep period on Still Star-Crossed,” remembers Mirojnick, who’s designed such notable projects as Behind the Candelabra, The Greatest Showman and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and received numerous accolades for her work in the New York fashion scene and beyond. We draped, we had overlays, embellishments, and that experimentation led to our finished product, which was always meant to create an illusion romance, of fluidity. In costume designer Ellen Mirojnick’s 30-year career, she’s never worked on a bigger or more ambitious project than Bridgerton. Mr. Pearl did that perfectly for all the girls. Privacy Notice Then we broke it down into shapes, wildness and tameness. “I was given the pilot script which ended up being our basis for the logistics, and the creative decisions happened more organically as we began to create the costumes,” says Mirojnick, whose two-story warehouse headquartered about 100 cutters, hands, embellishers, embroiderers, tailors, sewers, dyers, milliners and jewelry makers, all of whom worked together to create the confectionary costume look of Bridgerton. She discusses how her team spent five and a half months making 7500 costumes for principle characters and extras on set. 9,008, This story has been shared 8,523 times. So, we’d have our basis to start and the more modern designer’s interpretation of it, and then we’d construct it with all that in our minds. Early on, we made a look book that combined images of historical references, high fashion and Shondaland — it was a way to keep everybody in the entire crew and cast on the same page and to give a feeling of the look without defining each character. EM: It came about through the initial look book, the research and what we were drawn to. From the “audaciousness of the Featheringtons” to the Queen’s ever-changing silhouettes, the stars of the show all “flipped out and loved” their looks. This latest period-drama sensation is a frothy fantasy full of embellished ball gowns, extravagant jewellery and feathered headdresses. JG: Bonnets bring everything down. The show’s creator and showrunner Chris Van Dusen had a very specific vision in mind for the Regency-era romantic drama based on the New York Times best-selling book series by Julia Quinn, and Mirojnick fell in-step immediately by taking the Regency silhouette for both women and men, and completely turning it on its head. 24,428, This story has been shared 14,754 times. A typical Regency-era accessory. The actor has been charming viewers on the new Netflix... Post was not sent - check your email addresses! When they came to us, we said from the get-go that this was no small affair, and we needed a lot of resources. 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As for Daphne’s love interest, “Bridgerton’s” dreamy Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page)? Also, enjoy the video featurette below that reveals the massive undertaking of dressing Bridgerton. While Mirojnick originally looked to “probably every decade from 1813 forward” for ideas, the show’s distinctive looks are now making their mark on 2021. Mirojnick shared her look book with the actors prior to filming, calling the process a “great collaboration.” Adjoa Andoh, for instance, was the one to suggest her character Lady Danbury’s top hat and walking stick. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. And when the principal photography for Bridgerton was released, it looked as if costume designer Ellen Mirojnick took Quinn’s descriptions to heart. There’s so much contradiction between these two families, so we looked at how we could bring them together and how we could separate them. They shield the face; they instantly make everybody seem precious or old. Her tangents and general complaints can be seen on Twitter at @ByValentinaV . "Bridgerton's" incredible costumes are a huge reason why the show is one of the top original Netflix series of all time! Every item on this page was chosen by a Shondaland editor. It was a great layout for it, but also, it overwhelmed us; that’s when we realized this was going to be a lot of work.”. Over the course of the season, his steamy scenes required the costume team to consider not only how the characters dress, but also how they undress. Ellen Mirojnick and John Glaser took Regency silhouettes, colors, and designs for both the women and men of 'Bridgerton' — and completely turned it all on its head. From bodice-ripping sex scenes to orchestral Ariana Grande songs, Netflix’s “Bridgerton” is definitely not your mother’s period piece. The characters wear their finest clothes and jewelry in every episode. Not intended as “a history lesson,” her costume choices instead created “a new feeling for 1813 that absolutely fit with the modern twists and turns of the show.”. If we had all of those people and they were not as talented, it would have been a mess and a nightmare. When Chris wrote about the Featheringtons, he used acidic colors — lime green, lemon yellow, orange — and so that was a very clear indication of what we needed to do. That in itself is just words, but then when you put images to those colors it is so exhilarating. 'Bridgerton' Costume Designer Brings High Fashion Influences to Shonda Rhimes' Regency Era In our case, Mr. Pearl made the corset so that it rests on top of the ribs and has a half-cup that supports and lifts the bust so that you have a blossoming of the bosom. “In the rain scene, we see her garment come off and that corset was specifically designed for that … there’s more color and there’s more detail in that particular corset than the one that she wears every day,” she continued. “It’s really more about the timelessness … it’s kind of like having the correct recipe for the best stew possible and want[ing] people to have a second helping.”. Ahead of its Christmas Day release, Emmy Award-winning costume designer Ellen Mirojnick talks us through the series’ showstopping outfits. Would you wear Lizzo’s butt-baring cutout dress? Costume designer Ellen Mirojnik spoke to HelloGiggles about the secret messages hidden in each character's wardrobe, from Daphne and … VALENTINA VALENTINI: It sounds like Chris Van Dusen really trusted you to just take the reins and go with the flow. The writing itself gave us clear instruction of what was necessary to design. ELLEN MIROJNICK: One hundred percent. There’s something psychological about the bonnet that would never have worked in this show. While Netflix has yet to officially confirm a second season of “Bridgerton,” it’s safe to say viewers are hungry for more. JG: The look book had it all — we’d show the historical picture, the history of the fashion, then something from mid- 20th century and then something from, say the 1990s. She has written for The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine and Variety, among others, and contributes to Shondaland.com regularly. And by virtue of that, there’s a softness to it. They were half corsets, not going all the way to the waist, just sitting under the bust, and they have to have a cup in them that’s different from a Victorian corset, which molds the body to give it a tiny waist — like 19 inches. Bridgerton costume designer Ellen Mirojnick explains her spin on Regency style. Netflix’s new costume drama Bridgerton is a candy-coloured period piece with a difference — an irresistible romp populated by debutantes and dandies that throws off the shackles of the genre, combining diverse casting and queer romances with sex scenes that’d make Jane Austen blush.. 14,754, This story has been shared 9,008 times. In fact, Bridgerton is projected to be one of Netflix’s top five original series — and a major reason for that is the amazing costume design in the show. 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"Bridgerton" costume designer Ellen Mirojnick discusses the secrets of the show's style — including how she created clothes for all those sex scenes. “Although he is so much of a rogue and so handsome … how he evolves is that he becomes a bit more sophisticated,” said Mirojnick. 11 December 2020 by Kara Kia. Bridgerton Features 7,500 Glorious Costume Pieces Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick opens up about the grand endeavor of bringing the Netflix series to life. “When we make [costume] choices, we hope everyone kind of understands that we are visual storytellers,” the costume expert revealed, noting that heroine Daphne Bridgerton’s (Phoebe Dynevor) color palette changes throughout the show to reflect her fading innocence. There was a similar premise for dressing the cast of Bridgerton. “He created the shape of the corset that just hugged underneath the bosom … shaping the cups of the corsets and the shoulders so that the bosom was without a question accented in the most beautiful way,” Mirojnick gushed. From the very first reading of the show’s outline, she and her co-designers John Glaser and John Norster knew their task was going to be on a grand scale — both in scope and look — but Mirojnick and Glaser had worked with Shondaland previously on the period romance Still Star-Crossed, so they were up for the challenge. By Erica Gonzales Bridgerton's Costume Designer Reveals How Dior and Chanel Inspired a Modern Regency Wardrobe. It worked seamlessly also because there was great communication; they would work off each other’s ideas and were always talking to each other. We basically painted the show. I think that in one of the conversations I had with producer Betsy Beers and Chris we were thinking about colors like a sorbet, and also French macaron colors. But nobody was wearing a bonnet on a Shondaland show. EM: Everything really does go back to the Shondaland esthetic. We don’t really mix in the later decades of the 1800s, we stay below 1820 and keep within that feel of what Regency really is. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Your California Privacy Rights He is the foremost corset maker in the world today, and he made all our principal cast’s corsets. EM: We did take certain shapes off of a bonnet to create other kinds of hairpieces or adornments in order to complete a look. The enormity of the production lay partly in the fact that they essentially had to clothe the whole of London in 1813. That kind of coloration brings life to a show that is unexpected. Daphne Bridgerton and her mother, Violet Bridgerton, attend to needlepoint in their drawing room. The person responsible for these flamboyant outfits is 71-year-old New York native Ellen Mirojnick, the prolific costume designer behind cult hits such as Fatal Attraction (1987), Wall Street (1987) and Basic Instinct (1992). Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and the Duke (Regé-Jean Page) donned dazzling costumes for the glamorous balls on "Bridgerton. 250,052, This story has been shared 64,587 times. The show's central character, Daphne Bridgerton, had over one hundred costume changes, so it's easy to see how quickly those costume pieces add up. Valentina Valentini is a London-based freelance journalist. But they didn’t. Your California Privacy Rights John and I really don’t like getting that call halfway through saying we need to pull back, and that never came. The ‘Bridgerton’ Costume Designers Colored Outside the Lines to Create a Unique Regency Look Ellen Mirojnick and John Glaser took Regency silhouettes, colors, and designs for both the women and men of 'Bridgerton' — and completely turned it all on its head. We were heavily influenced by a painter we just love, a young Irish painter, Genieve Figgis, whom I’d come across in Vogue. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. There’s hardly anything with a hard line — it’s all illusion and visual magic. So, we decided on that Regency silhouette, which would be constant in both the male and female characters, and from there we used every single fabric we could find and every color, nothing was excluded at all. Take a look at the costumes from the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, and you might find yourself transported back to your childhood. With a large ensemble cast, it’s impressive to hear that Mirojnick created specific costumes for each of the principal players, from Daphne Bridgerton to Penelope Featherington. Does she rip it off, or does it come off? EM: The second part was that we had to shift the color palette. It’s always by color, shape and adornment. EM: The silhouette is similar to a Grecian silhouette. Then you have an image in your head of what it feels like. The Costume Designers Guild has revealed the nominees for its 23rd annual CDG Awards for film, TV and shortform. Thanks for contacting us. It was beautiful, and the rounder and the smoother they were, the better they looked. What was that like working with him? “We had a shorthand already and knew their aesthetic,” says Mirojnick, “so the overall feel of the show became clear just from one conversation with Chris.” Adds Glaser: “That script gave us the information needed for all eight episodes. Bridgerton’s costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick, who worked on Shonda Rhimes’ How To Get Away With Murder, is profiled in Town and Country. Get Your First Look at Shondaland's 'Bridgerton', Bridgerton Cast Questionnaire: Golda Rosheuvel, ‘Bridgerton’ Cast Questionnaire: Jonathan Bailey. This latest period-drama sensation is a frothy fantasy full of embellished ball gowns, extravagant jewellery and feathered headdresses. The first season of Netflix's hit series "Bridgerton" is filled with lavish parties and balls. While binge-watching eight episodes all at once may make it easy to pass-over the nuances, costume designer Ellen Mirojnick found subtle ways to build story through the sweeping gowns and flowery suits throughout. That was the emphasis of the woman’s body at the time, your eye went directly to the top of her décolletage. Since the show’s release, the Duke has skyrocketed to sex symbol status; a spoon he licked on the show even spawned its own Instagram account. 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All Rights Reserved, 63 million-plus households already watching Season 1, The 27 best celebrity bikini pictures of 2021 — so far, Grammys 2021 red carpet: See how celebrities dressed up for the show, The 21 best-dressed stars in Grammys red carpet fashion history, The best at-home looks from the Critics' Choice Awards red carpet. ‘We had to create a costume house that was making mens and womens clothing, inside and out, from underwear to shoes, there was nothing out there that we could use,’ she explained. 2021 Costume Designers Guild Awards: 'Mank,' 'Da 5 Bloods' and 'Bridgerton' Among Full List of Nominees By Desiree Murphy 9:30 AM PST, March 4, 2021 Netflix The men are dandies and that’s always fun to do because of the color combinations, the fabric combinations and the textures are very bold — they’re roguish and handsome at the same time. And during that time surrounding the Napoleonic Wars, there was a shortage of luxurious fabrics, mostly silk, so designers used muslin and cotton. Her personal essays can be read in the Los Angeles Times and Longreads. How does his shirt come off? Terms of Use Sitemap Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick told Insider about the meaning behind each character's jewelry. To source the show’s many eye-catching baubles, Mirojnick collaborated with jewelry designer Lorenzo Mancianti, who was “constantly on a hunt” to create and find pieces that were “as real as [they] could be” from cities including Spain, London and Rome. VV: What else did you do with fabrics and color and design to modernize the look? 39 Shares Bridgerton … Maia Soltis, a junior in CFA studying costume design, said despite “Bridgerton”’s wardrobe straying from historical accuracy, she did not think it distracted from the performance but rather drew attention to the story. VV: What were the first steps to recreating that look to become what we see in Bridgerton? “He still has his own style and his own independent point of view, but it [becomes] a little bit more married into the time that we are living in through the story.”. Ahead of its Christmas Day release, Emmy Award-winning costume designer Ellen Mirojnick talks us through the series’ showstopping outfits
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