Sometimes, when we think of TV shows we only talk about the Actors… or the Director or the Cinematographer… etc.
Well, I just came back from the red-carpet premiere of Showtime’s The Tudors, and I have to say that the costumes in season 2 are truly outstanding. Now, I’m not a fashion expert in any way like some of my compatriots, but the work of Emmy Award winner Joan Bergin really draws you into the time of Henry VIII with her amazing work.
Check out some of the costumes that were on display at the red-carpet premiere:
Season 2 of The Tudors premieres March 30 on Showtime at 9PM ET/PT.
Joan Bergin’s costumes on the The Tudors are outstanding! I watched the show and like others, am amazed at her talent. It is still a free country and anyone who does not agree is entitled to their opinion, however shallow and narrow minded it maybe, they are entitled.
Love the show esp the costumes!!!!!!, so beautiful and well-fitted, very talented costume designer
At the end of the day, we watch this show for entertainment- We all know the clothes are’nt hiistorically correcct for it’s time but so what?? They look fantastic!! The colours, the luxurious folds of fabric cascading everywhere, the ornamentation……. i cant take my eyes off of them! Go joan! Just what the BBC wanted, I’ll bet!
These costumes may look OK, but they bear no relation to historical clothing in any way, shape, or form, and it would not have been that difficult to make them at least look accurate. In what is supposed to be the 1520’s, the men are dressed as if it was somewhere between 1570 and 1620, and the women’s clothing is just pure fantasy, combining elements of medieval, renaissance, and modern. How come no one in the show wears a real French hood? Why didn’t the King of France wear a shirt under his 1560’s doublet at the Field of the Cloth of Gold? There are many paintings of both the French and English courts of that time. I could point the costumer to inexpensive books that detail what the clothing looked like and how to make it.
Joan’s costumes are exciting and inspiring. I would love a coffee table book with glossies of the cozzies, trade sketches and a breakdown of her creative process….from page to stage as it were.
love all the costumes on the tudors, please do a book with pictures of the costumes, they realy are spectacular.
Joan Bergin’s designs weave perfectly into the story. You cannot take your eyes off of the threads!
SPECTACULAR!
nice but hardly historical, but then the whole series wasn’t, was it? Nice and ‘hollywood’ but what’s the problem, real history not exciting enough?
they do a great job with the costumes and sets.