Costume Designers Season 1- Ellen Mirojnick & John Glaser
Costume Designer Season 2- Sophie Canale
Bridgerton is a massively popular Netflix show based/inspired by the romance series of the same name by Juila Quinn. Season one released Christmas Day 2020 and Season two came out March 2022. The series is known for its spicy romances, large diverse cast of complex characters and a modern take on Regency costumes.
Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Basset, The Duchess of Hastings, Season 2 Netflix’s “Bridgerton”
Daphne Basset, The Duchess of Hastings – Phoebe Dynevor
Costume Designer – Sophie Canale
The Duchess, Wife, and Mother
Season Two sees Daphne in her happily ever phase as she is married to Simon, the Duke of Hasting, though he does not appear in season two, and she is a mother to a baby boy named August (Auggie.) As she older and wiser, Daphne’s role in season two is offering romantic advice and being observant to her brother’s romantic entanglements.
Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in her radiant and effortlessly cool daisy dress from Season 2 of “Bridgerton” (2022)
Penelope Featherington: A Lady of Wit and Business
Penelope: Nicola Coughlan
Costume Designer: Sophie Canale
The foil to the refined Bridgertons are their London neighbors the Featheringtons. The Featheringtons are showy and garnish. They have “new money” vibe. They revel in bright colors with extreme amounts of embellishments and details like feathers.
The youngest of the Featheringtons is Penelope. In season two she’s in her second year on the marriage mart, secretly in love with Colin Bridgerton and is best friends with Eloise Bridgerton. However now that Eloise is out in society, she poises a difficulties to Penelope’s Lady Whistledown operation especially since Eloise is obsessed with unmasking the gossip-writer.
Feathington Family Fashions
All the families of Bridgerton have their unique sense of styles. The Bridgertons opts for pale pastel tones especially blues, the Sharmas, a new addition in season two, wear jewel tones while the Featherintons wears bright shocks of citrus colors.
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Claudia Jessie as Eloise, Netflix’s Bridgerton, Season 2
Eloise’s 10 Best Looks of Season 2
Eloise– Claudia Jessie
Costume Designer – Sophie Canale
After the success of season one in late 2020, “Bridgerton” Season Two dropped on Netflix in March 2022. Season two maintains the ensemble cast focusing on the love story of the eldest son.
Eloise Bridgerton: The Season’s Emerald
Season two starts with Eloise’s presentation to Queen Charlotte. This which means she’s out in society and hates every second of the ordeal. Eloise prefers reading and conversing in topic she finds engaging; topics she finds worthwhile. This prompts her to resume her quest for Whistledown to get the writer to write more than just gossip. This leads her to form an attachment with a printer and radical ideas.
Kate Sharma, the lead lady in the second season of “Bridgerton”
Kate Sharma: Simone Ashley
Costume Designer: Sophie Canale
In March 2022, the second season of Bridgerton dropped on Netflix amidst a lot of hype. As season one was a massive hit, it came as no surprise that the second season was met with equal enthusiasm.
Season two is eight episodes from producer Shonda Rhimes and creator/showrunner Chris Van Susen, mostly following the plot of the second book in Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series, The Viscount Who Loved Me. However, many more sub-plots were added to the show as well as center love story to have much more drama, angst and longing.
A New Costume Designer
By the time the second season was released, we all knew what to expect from the costume design. It’s a modern take on Recency aesthetics: fun, bright, and very colorful. The show never intended to be historically accurate; it’s depicting a fictionalized version of the Regency period (Britain from 1811 to 1820) and thus, it’s more fantastical, with its own unique, audacious style.
Sophie Canale, who was an assistant costume designer during the first season, took the helm as the lead of the costumes department for the second. For Canale, the foundation of costume design was already in place, meaning she could drive deeper into making the costumes express each character’s individuality.
This season we are introduced to the Sharma family. Much like the Bridergtons and the Featheringtons, the Sharmas have their own familial style and color palette that makes them unique in Mayfair.
Be warned: In discussing the costumes, Season 2 plot elements will be spoiled.
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This episode opens with a flashback to the formation of the cult sub-plot. Not sure if it’s a B or C plot-line since the A plot-line, much like Wednesday’s premonition switched in part 2 season. So Dort is behind it all and his master to plan was to steal Hester Frump’s fortune and while she herself is not an Addams, she is part of the family and a villain trying to take money from an Addams is basically the plots of both the 90s money, so it tracks.
There is a lot happening in the episode but that seems par for the course this season, so many plots. And yet despite the many plot points that unfold, one element of this episodes eclipses the rest.
So first point, I was completely and “woefully” wrong about Tyler. Tyler’s place in the story didn’t end with him and his mother, Francoise, being reunited and leaving town. No, instead, she’s now his new master and unhinged because she’s a hyde. Also being a hyde is killing her, which apparently it just does as general rule of being a hyde.
As the tile of this episode suggests, this a camp episode. The inclusion of which doesn’t distant the show from the 90s movies, maybe they don’t really want to. However this episode is the exact same step-up as season one’s episode three where Wednesday uses a school outing as cover to investigate a separate location. As well as the outing pitting “normies” and outcast against each other, though this one is more organized than the bullies of season one .
Much like Season 1, Season 2 opens with a preamble, a cold open if you will. Wednesday takes down a cold case serial killer with the use of her psychic powers that she has mostly master aside for some black goth tears. This opening does seem like a misdirect for the trailer but it’s fine and the TSA sun-screen gag was at least amusing, felt akin to Addams’ family humor.
