Best-known for her costume design work on HBO's hit series,
Deadwood (2004), award-winning
costume designer Janie Bryant has been obsessed with fashion and design
since her childhood spent in Cleveland, Tennessee. By age six, she was
creating breathtaking outfits for her dolls out of her mother's old
aprons and scavenged socks from the family's laundry basket.
She merged her love of fashion and design with a natural talent for
drawing and painting, which she nurtured while attending Georgia State
University, where she studied art and then moved on to the American
College of the Applied Arts, where she continued to pursue her love of
fashion design. Upon graduating Cum Laude, she moved to Paris and then
to New York, where she worked closely with fashion designer
John Scher. With a few commercials and films
under her belt, she headed west to Los Angeles.
Ironically, one of her first jobs in Los Angeles took her back to New
York, working on
David Milch's television
series,
Big Apple (2001). Her
collaboration with Milch continued two years later when he asked Janie
to design his new HBO project,
Deadwood (2004). Janie took to the
challenge with verve and the cutting edge series has taken off - In
2005, both the series and Janie took home Emmys.