Honorees at the 28th annual ceremony received a newly minted statuette designed by the Roman jewelry house
Words by ELIZABETH VARNELL
Photography by GETTY IMAGES for COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD
Those who sketch, drape, obsess over era-specific details, and design the garments that help create characters alongside actors, filmmakers, and a host of creatives gathered on Thursday, February 12, at The Ebell of Los Angeles for the annual Costume Designers Guild Awards. The awards, hosted by actor Courtney Hope, honored work in film, television, costume illustration, and short form costume design. The ceremony encompassed film shorts, music videos, commercials, web series, and digital content, and celebrated actors including Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue) and Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another); Avatar: Fire and Ash filmmaker James Cameron; and costume designer Michelle Cole, whose work on television shows from In Living Color to Black-ish spans generations. The evening — held in partnership with Bulgari, the Roman jewelry house that minted the CDG’s original statuette evoking floating fabric almost 30 years ago — included the introduction of its renewed design inspired by Hollywood’s Golden Age. Also on hand were Tracee Ellis Ross, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine LaNasa, Paul Feig, Janelle Monáe, Damon Wayans, Diallo Riddle, Samba Schutte, and Sasheer Zamata.
“It’s my favorite collaboration on the set,” Hudson said of her work with wardrobe departments. “This was one of my favorite times to reflect on all the amazing artists I’ve worked with,” she added. “I feel like I grew up in the room with costume designers, and my mom, and I look back at my career and I’ve worked with the best of the best.” The award recipients and winners in nine competitive categories — from contemporary to period or sci-fi/fantasy, film, and television plus variety, reality, and live competition television as well as short form and costume illustration — received the new edition of the Guild’s statuette, The Adrian. Originally designed by David Le Vey, a Singin’ in the Rain dance sequence featuring Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse inspired the initial look of the award, which was later named for revered costume and fashion designer Gilbert Adrian.
This year, the reinvented version was bestowed on Colleen Atwood and Bryan Roberts Kopp (One Battle After Another); Kate Hawley and Renée Fontana (Frankenstein); Paul Tazewell (Wicked: For Good); Kameron Lennox (The Studio); Alix Friedberg, Leigh Bell, and Samantha Schwartz (Palm Royale); Michael Wilkinson (Andor); Tom Broecker, Christina Natividad, and Ashley Dudek (Saturday Night Live); Rafaella Rabinovich (Dandyland); Michelle Martini (Uber Eats: A Century of Cravings); and Felipe Sanchez (Sinners).
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