Faces and Places in Fashion: Katie Irish
School of Art and Design
About
- Title
- Faces and Places in Fashion: Katie Irish
- Date
- 2021-03-01
- Description
- Part presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.
- Katie Irish is a costume designer, best known for her work on the award- winning FX series The Americans. She began as a shopper for the first season of the show, became assistant designer for seasons two and three, and then took the helm as designer for seasons four through six. The final season of The Americans took home the Best Drama awards for both the Emmys and the Critics' Choice.
- Prior to her work on The Americans, Irish designed the indie features The Widowers and Landing Up; co-designed the Season 10 semi-finals and finale of NBC's America's Got Talent; shopped for HBO's Deadwood; and served as the New York design assistant for The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. She has also designed numerous commercials, short films, and music videos.
- Earlier in her career, she worked extensively as an associate designer on Broadway where favorites included Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Jerusalem, Fences, Promises, Promises, The Seagull, Is He Dead?, and Shrek.
- Originally from Memphis, Katie is an alum of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, with a MFA in Design for Stage and Film. She is currently working on a new project for Netflix
- Rights
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- This video was produced by the Fashion Institute of Technology ("FIT") and is the property of FIT. FIT expressly prohibits the copying, displaying, or uploading to a website of any portion of this video, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, without express written permission from FIT. This video has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for content in this video and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: aod_000339
Citation
Fashion Institute of Technology. (2021, March 1). Faces and Places in Fashion: Katie Irish [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/24142
Fashion Institute of Technology. "Faces and Places in Fashion: Katie Irish." Archive on Demand, 1 Mar. 2021, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/24142
Fashion Institute of Technology, "Faces and Places in Fashion: Katie Irish," Archive on Demand, March 1, 2021, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/24142