Women dressed in period costume joined hundreds of people on Old Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa last week to protest the steady elimination of women’s rights. Read all Press Democrat coverage here.

The Collection of Period Costumes exhibition opened in 1914 in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building. The original Collection of Period Costumes exhibition included dresses worn by the wives ...

Costume designers for period pieces are tasked with re-creating specific moments in time, but they are also responsible for visually representing the narrative journeys of a story’s characters. That’s ...

For Starz’s new series “Becoming Elizabeth,” costume designer Bart Cariss took a slightly different approach than what’s expected from a period drama. When designing the many costumes for the show, ...

Costume designers don’t just make clothes. They build time machines from fabric and thread. Some of them go so deep into research that you could walk straight out of a movie set and into a history ...

Lady Whistledown’s innovation among the scandal sheets is that she uses people’s names to dish about marriage-mart gossip. But the “Bridgerton” costume department has had quite a novel innovation on ...

There’s a sexier side to the story of King James I in D.C. Moore’s “Mary & George,” a psychological drama on Starz where the titular mother (Julianne Moore) and her son (Nicholas Galitzine) deceive, ...

The series may feature elaborate costumes and wigs but it’s really about moral dilemmas, say its creatives and stars. The new show is a prelude to the 18 th century novel “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” ...

"Bridgerton" takes a Rule of Cool approach to period costumes and is all the better for it. Lady Whistledown’s innovation among the scandal sheets is that she uses people’s names to dish about ...