Gladys Russell’s 10 Best Costumes from Season 3 of “The Gilded Age”

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Taissa Farmiga plays Gladys Russell HBO’s “The Gilded Age”


Gladys wants to Live Her Own Life – Her Mother has Other Grand Plans

Gladys Russell:  Taissa Farmiga
Costume Designer: Kasia Walicka-Maimone  

The third season of  “The Gilded Age” premiered  summer 2025.  It picks up six months after season two closes, roughly in early spring of 1884. 

Season three finds Gladys in an extensional battle with her mother, Bertha. Gladys wants to marry for love and her father, George, and her brother, Larry, are on her side. However Bertha is determined for her to marry Hector Vere, The Duke of Buckingham.   

This dynamic of Gladys’ marriage is the cause for much of the drama for the members of The Russell’s family as both Larry and George feel betrayed by Bertha’s ruthless at the cost of her family’s happiness and their desires for their lives and well-being over social standings.  

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Gladys Russell’s 5 Best Costumes from Season 2 of “The Gilded Age”

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Taissa Farmiga plays Gladys Russell HBO’s “The Gilded Age”


Introducing The Gilded Age

Gladys Russell: Taissa Farmiga
Costume Designer: Kasia Walicka-Maimone

The Second season of HBO’s “The Gilded Age” premiered on October 29th 2023. Much like the title suggests the series is set during 1880s in New York City. It features an ensemble cast with many of the actors being stars of the stage.

Season two opens on Easter of 1883 and is primarily set against the ‘Opera Wars’ which saw the opening of Metropolitan Opera against the exclusive Academy of Music.

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Gladys Russell’s 7 Best Costumes from Season 1 of “The Gilded Age”

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Taissa Farmiga as Gladys Russell "The Gilded Age" Season 1 Ranking costumes, gowns, dresses and outfits,
Taissa Farmiga plays Gladys Russell in HBO’s “The Gilded Age.” Her season one costumes reflect her youth, naiveté, and her mother’s control over her life

Introducing The Gilded Age

Gladys Russell: Taissa Farmiga
Costume Designer: Kasia Walicka-Maimone

After the success of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellows was considering doing prequel series. That series soon became its own story. “The Gilded Age” set during the gilded age of the 1880s premiered on on HBO, January 24, 2022.

The premise is a juxtaposition of the elite New York Society or “The 400” made up of wealthy blue bloods from old family against the New money people.

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