Lou Eyerich on Collaborating With Ryan Murphy
The 14-time Emmy Award nominated costume designer, Lou Eyerich, explains how she got her start working behind the scenes in the music industry before going on to costume Popular. This was the first series created by the “super-producer”, Ryan Murphy, in 1999. Eyerich reveals the craft and creative process of masterminding wardrobes evoking Murphy’s brand of inclusive storytelling and how, by 2018, he had appointed her to be a producer in charge of costumes for all of his productions. Eyerich recalls some of the great Ryan Murphy shows on which she has worked including American Crime Story: The Assasintaion of Gianni Versace, American Horror Story: Hotel - on which Naomi Campbell starred - plus assembling the wardrobe for Gwyneth Paltrow’s character, Georgina Hobart, on The Politician.