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"Up today in our Q&amp;amp;A with Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant: Breaking down Don's sartorial breakdown\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nGQ: When you get a script like last night's and you see that the majority of the action is taking place over a finite period, where everyone is pretty much wearing one outfit, is it easier or harder to decide on a character's costume design?\n\n Janie Bryant: For Don Draper, specifically, Matthew Weiner and I talked about all the different stages of Don in the episode. So it was really important to me that his costume was one that he was going to look good in in the beginning and then be able break down and break down and break down to go with the story of his emotional breakdown. For his costume, I wanted his first suit to be not the most flattering color. I wanted to use that perfect soft vintage gray. Also, I knew in terms of the story, that in the end, when we see him in the elevator he had to look totally different so I wanted to use a costume that would be in high contrast to the one he basically wears throughout the entire episode.\n\nGQ: You can see the contrast. In the end he looks so put together, very alpha-Don.\n\n Bryant: Stone cold. The blue was about that iciness and also about him being like \"I am Don-fucking-Draper again\"\n\nGQ: Do you think the character of Don Draper cares a lot about his clothing or do you get the impression he is only concerned with what he needs to wear?\n\n Bryant: I think Don Draper is a character of mystery and fa\u00C3\u00A7ade and I think that he knows how to dress and he's not about being ostentatious or overtly glamorous or showing off in any way. He really maintains that uniform of a suit and he wears that armor every day.\n\nGQ: One person, or look, I wanted to talk about last night was Ken Gosgrove. Even before that tap dance we noticed his green windowpane suit. Every season he shows up in these greens and golds that no one else on the show wears.\n\n Bryant: It's so specific to my golden boy, it's true. Ken has really progressed throughout the seasons and I think he's a really good, honest character. He's the sweet side of the office. Those earthy colors really speak to me for his character's down-to-earth, sweet nature.\n\nGQ: When you knew Ken was going to have to move around so much in the suit did that change how you selected the final one?\n\n Bryant: No, his suits are tailored according to Ken Cosgrove's costume design. He wasn't moving around so much that we needed to give him extra room. Although, I was so happy there was a full-length shot of him because you could see how perfectly the hem on his trousers was done. I was very happy about that, it was just enough sock.\n\nGQ: The color green seemed to keep turning up last night, on Ken and then Stan and finally Ted at the end. Was that just indicative of a hue that was popular at the time or were you trying to have a common color thread throughout the episode?\n\n Bryant: That color scheme was not so intentional. There was definitely a tie to all the different colors for the womenswear last night but I use the color green a lot for those characters so that was really in each of those character's color palettes. But I did want Stan in his green shirt because there's something about that acid green spoke to me for him doing drugs and running around.\n\nGQ: On weeks when there are less looks per character, can you breathe a bit easier than ones like last week where there were so many more costume design needs?\n\n Bryant: I'm truly thankful just to have that variety where some episodes seem huge and then other episodes seem not as challenging because it would be too much if every episodes was like that. It's nice to be able to take the time to mold an episode into what it needs to be."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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