Your dresses have arrived!
It's quite ravishing!
Our costume department is incredible.
It is Regency with a twist.
Everything is just so bold and it’s beautiful.
We knew how important wardrobe was, so we went to the best.
Lucky for us, Ellen said yes and she was up to the challenge.
She ended up making
some incredible pieces of wardrobe for us.
This interpretation of 1813 needed to be
an overview of how we can add modern elements to it.
We’ve made it more luxurious and more sumptuous,
and we’ve introduced a modern color palette,
but really tried to stick to the basic foundation
of the 1813 silhouette.
I walked in, thinking beige bonnets and carriages
and then Ellen showed me the book,
which had the sort of ideas of the costumes, the colors, the shapes.
She went, “Real,” and it was, like, a painting from the time.
"High fashion," and it was a high-fashion thing.
Then she was like, "Shonda."
The main thing I enjoy about it is the bravery, I think,
of the design of the costume.
The family have quite a muted, pastel palette.
Which is lovely, juxtaposed with our beautiful Featheringtons
and all their bright colors.
Callers, ma’am.
The Earl of Stafford and the Marquess of Finley.
My word! Well, you should have my colorful fashions to thank.
We want it to be a period drama like you’ve never seen before.
The kind of remit for the queen was she didn’t have any continuity.
So every single shot that you see her in,
she’s in something different.
So that drove a kind of character choice as well
about the gaudiness of the society.
The style of the show is so over the top, so gorgeous.
You go in, they have a warehouse
full of the costumes and everything.
You pick out any random dress, the detail on it…
Each one of the flowers on this dress is handmade.
It’s embellished. All the jewelry is handmade and put together.
I think there are close to 7,500 pieces of wardrobe
just made for Bridgerton.
Everything you see is bespoke.
Everything you see is made for the show.
Nothing comes from a costume house.
You can’t believe you’re wearing it. I never thought I’d wear this.
This is the moment to do the bow. I found the moment.
Ellen in the costume design, she has the most fabulous team.
The attention to detail in every aspect is extraordinary.
People that are working on this are so talented.
The corsets have been made by the famous Mr. Pearl,
who’s done all the crazy corsets in the last 20, 30 years.
I don’t know if there are corsetry acting awards,
but I would like one for doing a full jig in this. It wasn’t easy.
I’m in a different outfit every scene, basically.
We counted. I have 104 dresses, which is just madness.
It has definitely offered a great challenge
and it has definitely offered a great delight at the same time.
The size of the show is mammoth.
It was daunting when we first looked at it.
But I’m very proud to say that this team is like no other
and it has risen so far above any expectation.
The bar is so high.
The illustrious words that come to this author’s mind
the morning after any good party
are "shock" and "delight."