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Madly Marvelous: The Costumes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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From the award-winning costume designer of Amazon Prime Videos The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a collection of the shows costumes, with never-before-seen photography, sketches, production stills, and more Amazon Prime Videos Emmy- and Golden Globewinning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel centers on Miriam Midge Maisel, a 1950s New York City woman whose seemingly perfect life suddenly takes an unexpected turn, taking her from a comfortable life on Riverside Drive through the basket houses and nightclubs of Greenwich Village as she embarks on a groundbreaking standup comedy career. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (creator and showrunner of Gilmore Girls), and starring Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, and Tony Shalhoub, TheMarvelous Mrs. Maisel has garnered fan and critical praise alike, with much of the attention focused on the exquisitely designed period costumes.Madly Marvelous: The Costumes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel explores the inner workings of award-winning costume designer Donna Zakowskas process, as well as the many inspirations for the shows wardrobe, including period photography, American and European fashion trends, and the various cultures and countercultures of late-1950s New York. The clothes of Mrs. Maisel are gorgeous, authentically detailed, and carefully crafted. Illustrated with sketches, photographs from Zakowskas workspace, behind-the-scenes shots, and production stills, the book follows the series from season to season, showing how the vocabulary of fashioncontext, style, color, cut, accessories, and moreis integral to defining and developing the characters in the show. Madly Marvelous is a must-have for fans of the show and fashionistas alike, providing readers with a curated and well-informed look at an integral period in fashion history.

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Table of Contents

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BY D ONNA ZAKOWSKA

THE COSTUMES OF

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To my mother and all women

who strive to surround themselves

with beauty in spite of all

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FOREWORD

by Amy Sherman-Palladino

ts time to bring back Pink. Donna Zakowska stood

in her studio on the third floor of Steiner Studios, a

magic room of hats and shoes and skirts and gloves,

dressed all in black, like a ninja, explaining the reason-

ing behind her proclamation. Midges coat in the pilot

was pink. In the pilot she was with Joel. When they broke

up, the pink was gone. But now that Midge seems to be

finding her way forward againwere bringing back

pink. Of course it will be a different pink, because shes a

different girl, but it will be pink.

Pink tells a story.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

is the show I have been

waiting my whole life to do. I wanted it to be a big show.

I wanted to revisit the New York that I had heard

about from my parents. To bring to life the tales of the

Greenwich Village basket houses and the Catskills hotels

my father worked at as a stand-up comic. And to accom-

plish this task I needed several things: unbreakable

actors, the crew of the gods, production design conjured

by wizardsand costumes. Marvelous, beautiful cos-

tumes. Costumes that move and dance.

Costumes that tell a story.

So into my life walked a tiny woman who would haunt

my dreams. And my stories.

Donna Zakowska is uncompromising. Her designs are

specific and theres a reason for every button, every

pocket. Everything must be perfect. And not just for our

star, Rachel Brosnahan, or our leading actors, but for

every single person on our show. She marches up and

down the lines of extras, sometimes hundreds of them,

inspecting every detail, correcting every flaw, for every

scene we do. Button that. Dont take the hat off, I told

you that. You have gloves? Where are your gloves?

Whats in your pocket? Why? I dont care if its your

life-saving medication, its ruining the line of your suit.

Throw it out. Okay, the last one never happened, but it

could. And frankly she would be right.

Nothing escapes her eye. Shes a perfectionists per-

fectionist. For Miami she created a sort of bubble sun

romper, inspired by some pictures of Miami in the

fifties, that looked like beach balls with great legs walk-

ing around on the beach. Ridiculous and fabulous. She

makes costumes that are dreamy, funny, sexy, insane...

everything that I need this show to be.

Her clothes can be frilly, flirty, sad, or defiant. There are

coats that feel like superhero capes and hats that feel like

crowns or cherries on top of a sundae. And every one of

them is like nothing youve ever seen before.

I have given Donna many nicknames over the last five

years. My two favorites being Generale and Genius.

And because she is a professional, and a cool lady, she

has tolerated these nicknames with a mixture of bewil-

derment and probably a little annoyance. But hopefully

she understands they are meant with great love, affec-

tion, and admiration.

And quite a bit of gratitude for giving her all... to help

me tell my story.

grew up with my mother and grandmother in an old nine-

teenth-century house in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, regularly

descended upon by a bevy of Italian aunts, at the center of

a constant flurry of social events and holiday celebrations. And

my mother embraced each change of season and holiday as if

decorating and dressing for the occasion were essential obliga-

tions of daily life. The house was decked with metallic silver

icicles in the winter, then red velvet roses, tulips in the spring,

autumn leaves and pumpkins in the fall. It sometimes felt like

living in a giant window display, with heaps of fabric flowers

and ornament boxes in constant rotation from the basement.

Amidst the various household decorations, my mother also

regularly conjured up boxes of clothing and hats, and I took par-

ticular pleasure in donning my grandmothers vintage clothing.

My mother was an unwavering believer in the power of adorn-

mentand the idea that, whatever the circumstances of ones

life, one should never abandon the commitment to beautifica-

tion and embellishment, either of ones surroundings or oneself.

On one of my first films, Carl Franklins One True Thing , my

mothers guiding principle was very much in my thoughts

when I was designing the costumes for Meryl Streeps char-

acter, Kate, who was diagnosed with cancer and unwilling to

succumb to its effect on her outward appearance. We created

a wardrobe rich in holiday clothing and accessorieslike

Christmas corsages and sweaterswith attractive, uplifting

details to express her unrelenting celebration of daily life in the

face of adversity. The headscarves she wore in the aftermath

of her cancer treatments were made from very special Italian

silks and wools, and I remember being amazed by the number

of women who reached out to me afterward wanting to find

these scarves for themselvesan armation, I thought, of my

mothers belief.

Years later, then, in one of my first meetings with the creator

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