Bridgerton Costume Designer John Glaser Reveals His Favorite Look from Season 3

After an agonizing wait, the article of all our wishes is right here: the ultimate 4 episodes of Bridgerton Season 3.

With opulent costumes, a friends-to-lovers trajectory and the steamiest carriage trip with a wild needle-drop to Pitbull’s “Give Me All the things,” it’s protected to say, half one had every thing. Wallflower Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) blossomed into a number one woman, as she ditched her spinster life and got down to discover herself a husband. Naturally, this pursuit got here with a mesmerizing wardrobe transformation, as she ditched all of the citrus shades she’d been bathed in for the primary two seasons.

Although Penelope is our diamond of the season, arguably, costume designer John Glaser’s masterpiece of the season — which he admits is his favourite look — was truly an outfit crafted for her rival on the wedding mart, Cressida Cowper.

In episode 6, Cowper arrives on the queen’s ball in a sensational blood purple robe with ballooned sleeves paired with a inflexible white neck collar, paying homage to Bella Baxter’s larger-than-life wardrobe in Poor Things.

As a continuing supply of battle with our heroine, this voluminous quantity embodies the pivotal function that she performs within the ecosystem this season. Penelope is the fragile blooming flower, Cressida the fully-formed rose, testing the pungent sting of her thorns. But, this time, Cressida is introduced as the delicate creature, not the sought out, now ripe-for-picking flower like Penelope.

“We have been attempting to make Cressida a butterfly trapped in a cocoon in a conservatory. We needed her to be camouflaging her harm,” Glaser tells Teen Vogue. “She’s speculated to put on that purple gown, and it might have been far more interval, far more correct. However we thought, ‘Alright, if she’s going to stroll in that room, let’s simply go so far as we probably can.'”

“It incorporates every thing: it’s sheer, it’s a purple flower, it shimmers, it’s ombre. It wasn’t a sophisticated gown, nevertheless it was a problem because it was one of many few issues that we weren’t positive would work till we noticed it.”