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“Costume design tells everything,” says 2023 Career Achievement Award honoree Francine Jamison-Tanchuck. “It’s what you see at first and just opens up the whole story.”

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The A24-Netflix dark dramedy series Beef is something of a cultural phenomenon. Danny (Steven Yeun) and Amy (Ali Wong) are two strangers who engage in a road rage incident, then quickly spiral down a rabbit hole of obsessive retaliation. Creator Lee Sung Jin had an Asian cast in mind, but the feelings of frustration explored by the script are universal. It is the subtlety of Helen Huang’s costume design that conveys the nuances of the Asian experience in Los Angeles. “My approach is born out of the desire to show the complete personal histories and complexities of each character,” she notes. “It’s a design philosophy that recognizes Asian Americans are not a monolith. There are different ethnic backgrounds, individual family histories, and economic disparities that inform their experiences.”

Celebrating our 25th CDGA was a beautiful collage of our past, present, and future. Honoring our history by officially christening our Awards statuette remains my most memorable and cherished moment. Film has the Oscar, television has the Emmy, and now—we have the Adrian.

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.

Deborah L. Scott’s costume designs are more than movie history—they are Americana. Twenty-six years ago, Titanic became a global phenomenon and earned her an Academy Award ®. The Costume Designers Guild is proud to recognize her with the 2023 Career Achievement Award.

Always pushing her creativity, Arianne Phillips often takes breaks from film to design theater, music videos, and concert tours, as well as styling print work and cover shoots for fashion magazines like Vogue Italia. “It’s kind of a path cleanser,” she explains. “I’ve gone out of my way to work across genres, so I can be choosy with the films I do.” The breadth and scope of her career is astonishing.