‘Lessons in Chemistry’: How Brie Larson’s Costume Designer Made Lab Coats Fashionable
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor It’s the early 1950s — and society thinks women like Brie Larson’s character Elizabeth Zott belong at home and not in a science laboratory.
Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry” follows Elizabeth, who dreams of being a chemist, but the world has other plans. Rather than listen to any of her ideas, the men at the Hastings Research Institute where she works believe she needs to smile more.
Costume designer Mirren Gordon-Crozier wanted to portray Elizabeth’s growth and journey from lab tech to eventual cooking show host of “Supper at Six,” showing a young woman with passion and drive, a woman who didn’t conform.
She picked green as Elizabeth’s signature color. The first time audiences see Elizabeth is at the top of the premiere episode in a flash-forward.
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