EXCLUSIVE: Costume designer Janie Bryant — best known for Mad Men and her Emmy-winning
work on HBO’s Deadwood — is in development on a new design competition series with E.J. Johnston and James Deutch, co-creators of NBC’s fashion competition series Fashion Star. In the new show — working title Janie Bryant’s Hollywood — wannabe designers will be given a different challenge each week to create a garment in the style of a classic Hollywood film, or a celebrity’s signature style (think Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly,
Warren Beatty, etc). Bryant and the show’s judges will decide each week who best executed the challenge. “We loved the idea of tapping into someone like Bryant, who is great at finding a look and designing costumes for film and TV and seeing how it translates into the real world,” Deutch tells Deadline. “Janie totally gets how to translate Hollywood to mainstream fashion.” He says they’ve just started pitching the show to networks, focusing on cablers such as Bravo, E! and Lifetime — networks that target women, people who love movies, and/or have had success with other fashion shows.




who cares?
noone cares
lame…she’s talented but this is a weak idea.
Nice attempt to gain interest in a show that nobody wants to buy! Fish much?
So not cool why would they cancel Jane by design u suck !!’
And this is from the producers of that “mega-hit” Fashion Star show?
Let’s see, FS got what in the ratings?
What night was it on?
And this new show will appeal to who?
OMG- Fashion star was a hot mess. If Bryant was any good she would walk away from this and get a design job. Mad men was good design. Deadwood- Not so much