S9E01: Ellen Mirojnick

Ellen Mirojnick is the costume designer for Bridgerton.

Before designing the Netflix Regency drama that became a pandemic hit, Mirojnick worked on other Shondaland productions, and had a good sense of the production company’s aesthetic:

They knew that I understood the fashion aspect of creating a world that you looked at and wanted to wear and wanted to be like the character…. There is an aspiration of beauty. There’s an aspiration always to showing a side that really represents us — us as a full culture — on everything that they do and everything they expect you to do.

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By Jessica Helfand & Ellen McGirt

Ellen McGirt is an author, podcaster, speaker, community builder, and award-winning business journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of Design Observer, a media company that has maintained the same clear vision for more than two decades: to expand the definition of design in service of a better world. Ellen established the inclusive leadership beat at Fortune in 2016 with raceAhead, an award-winning newsletter on race, culture, and business. The Fortune, Time, Money, and Fast Company alumna has published over twenty magazine cover stories throughout her twenty-year career, exploring the people and ideas changing business for good. Ask her about fly fishing if you get the chance.