Roisin Cross Silks, silk supplier for the award winning series - 'The Tudors' would like to congratulate Joan Bergin and her creative team who have just won a second Emmy award for "Outstanding Costumes for a Series."
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| If costumes are the first impression we have of a character before they open their mouths, then Joan Bergin has turned the creation of those costumes into the highest of art forms and the most fascinating of sciences. An actress, theatre and interior designer in Dublin before she decided to dress actors for a living, Bergin is now one of Ireland’s best-known costume designers. |
Other film credits include My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Veronica Guerin and The Prestige; her theatre work the costumes for Sam Shepard's Kicking a Dead Horse at the Abbey Theatre and the sparkling creations of Riverdance; as well as her recent TV work the luscious, wonderful costumes for The Tudors.
“The second Emmy was a real pleasure, yes”, says Bergin from the studio where she works in Dublin. It must be, as not only is this the second Emmy in so many years for her work on the bodice-ripping drama, but her second win after a total of 11 nominations. She is pleased it happened with The Tudors because of the sheer scale and ambition of the project (she has created 1, 440 costumes for the show to date).
Bergin and her team, who number 22 in all between wardrobe and the workshop, made a pact to “bloody well enjoy this thing” from day one, because the sheer scale of the project and the mountain of work to do meant there was little room for histrionics.
“I know it’s always a cliché to say I thank my team, but the work we’ve done… who would have believed there was that much talent – we made everything from the jewellery to the shoes, researched on the flowers, the food, the hangings”, says Bergin in a way that is in equal measures, articulate, and charmingly girlish.
The costumes, once people had recovered from the shock of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII taking his clothes off all the time, is the big talking point of The Tudors, now in its second season. Fashion magazines have picked up on the gorgeous fabrics and designs, particularly the sensual ladies clothes. |
| Comments citied from 'Reaping what she sews' by Shelley Marsden , with thanks |
