The Studio lives in the space between art and commerce, idealism and vanity, actuality and image. All the characters balance along that tightrope. The characters are immediately recognizable, particularly to anyone who has worked on a set. Clearly drawn from personal experience from show creators, the series is inhabited with fictional characters drawn so close to life that actual celebrity cameos fit in like jigsaw puzzle pieces.

“None of this had been done before—and never on this scale,” she says.

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Tales of crime, espionage, and intrigue are both timeless and irresistible. Characters brought to life in the ’30s and ’40s became archetypes of cinema that still resonate today. We spoke to costume designers Catherine Adair, Betsy Heimann, and Justine Seymour about their recent period projects set in the genre-defining time between the two World Wars.

Variety Magazine: Carter, who in 2019 became the first Black person to win the Oscar for costume design for her work on Marvel’s “Black Panther,” was recognized for the film’s sequel, “Wakanda Forever.” In her speech, she thanked director Ryan Coogler and asked late “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman to look after her own mother, who recently died at 101. ostumedesignersguild.com/press_news/ruth-e-carter-becomes-first-black-woman-to-win-two-oscars/">Read More

There was a handful of women so far ahead of the times that fashion didn’t catch up to them for fifty years. What ground breaking diva wore the man’s tailcoat first? Was it Josephine Baker, Louise Brooks, or Marlene Dietrich? No matter who wore it first, or who wore it best, it was costume designer Travis Banton, Dietrich and Swarovski crystals that minted an icon.
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