| Katherine Jane (Janie) Bryant | |
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| Born | USA |
Katherine Jane (Janie) Bryant is an American television costume designer.
Her most notable work is in the HBO Western series Deadwood, for which she was awarded the Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series in 2005. Recently, critics have praised her clothing designs for the AMC series Mad Men.[1]
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Janie Bryant studied drawing and painting at Georgia State University, but she soon moved on to pursue fashion design at the American College of the Applied Arts. She moved to Paris and then to New York, where she learned the craft from designer John Scher. After meeting a costume designer at a party, Bryant found her calling and began to work on movies and commercials in Manhattan.
Bryant caught her big break when she started designing for the David Milch television series Big Apple, and then his HBO series Deadwood a couple of years later. She won an Emmy Award for her work on Deadwood, and now she designs for the acclaimed AMC series Mad Men.
Mad Men-inspired collections are popping up all over runways in 2008. Michael Kors has said that he designed with the series in mind, and Prada's 2008 resort line had remnants of the show's style as well. Even Vera Wang's Spring 2006 line was influenced by Deadwood. Bryant is playing a huge role in bringing vintage (and vintage-inspired) pieces to contemporary clothing.[2]
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