62 The Costume Designer Winter 2019
Serj Costumes & Tailoring
1707 W. Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91506
818-845-2800
suitsbyserj.com
Marilyn Madsen
2942 N. Lake Ave.
Altadena, CA 91001
626-798-8448
t1venus@earthlink.net
Madsen got her start in the NBC work-
room and ran the Warner Bros. workroom
before starting her own shop in 1987. Her
specialty was gowns and performance
costumes for the likes of Anne Bancroft,
Lucille Ball, Nell Carter and Sarah Vaughan,
as well as Whitney Houston's performance
costumes in The Bodyguard. Recently, she
has joined the sci-fi zeitgeist, working fre-
quently with Marvel to create the specialty
costumes for the superheroes of the MCU.
Last year, she traveled to Peru, lived in a lit-
tle hut for a month and a half to learn the
techniques of a master weaver, and looks
forward to being able to apply this new
skill set to future costumes.
In the 2018 fall magazine, the follow-
ing illustration was miscredited.
CD Michael McDonald
La Cage Aux Folles
ILL Gloria Kim
CUSTOM, BESPOKE
CHAIN STITCH EMBROIDERY
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JASON REDWOOD
After working as head tailor at 20th Cen-
tury Fox, founder Serj Kazarian began
his own full-service men's and women's
custom tailoring shop in 2007. Located in
the Magnolia Park District of Burbank, his
work can be seen in The Fast and the Fu-
rious series, Star Trek: Beyond, and Black
Panther, as well as television programs, in-
cluding Mad Men, Legion, and Ray Dono-
van. He will soon be opening a space in
Beverly Hills for custom tailoring which
will be by appointment only.
