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34 The Costume Designer Summer 2016 Queen of the South is the latest series to move away from "blue sky" dramas toward more gritty content. Designed by CD Frank Helmer and produced by Fox Television Studios/TVM for USA Net- work, the cast features Alice Braga and a host of international stars. Queen of the South centers on the Mexican drug trade and the violence, sexuality, and drug use that come with it. Fortunately, extensive research into the life and reality of drug lords, traffickers, and mules did not lead to any lasting illicit habits for the crew. How- ever, Helmer highly recommends finding out if the prop "cocaine" you are snorting is lactose powder if one is lactose intolerant. BFN - WORK IN FOCUS BOLDFACE NAMES CD Cate Adair has always wanted to design a period Western, and now she not only got one, she got two! Well, it's actually two pe- riods in one production, with the action alternating between 1849 and 1915 Texas. Adair is presently in Austin, TX, designing the new AMC series The Son, based on the bestselling historical novel by Philipp Meyer. It's an amazing tale of an Anglo-American boy cap- tured and raised by the Comanche, who then goes on to become the patriarch of a prominent Texas family. Adair says she's finding that telling this sweeping story through clothes is both an adventure and a love as big as Texas itself. AMC's The Son Queen of the South CD Audrey Fisher and ACD Kristine Haag are currently on cre- ative overdrive on Netflix's comedy GIRLBOSS, the story of Sophia Amoruso and her 2006 fashion empire Nasty Gal. Designing at a breakneck speed for the Character Sophia's dozens of changes is fun and challenging. It helps that their muse, the Real Sophia, is often at video village cheering them on. Fisher and Haag were in- vited to Real Sophia's home to rifle through her (fantastic) closet, which was an inspiring way to dive into this aspirational project. Britt Robertson portrays the fashion phenom. CD Patia Prouty is excited to head to Pittsburgh, PA, to see a col- orful autumn as she designs the crime series Manifesto. Spanning from the Summer of Love in the sixties through to the nineties, Manifesto is based on the stories of the FBI profiler who caught the Unabomber and worked on other famous cases like the murder of JonBenét Ramsey and the Atlanta City Olympic bombings. Shooting begins in September with Greg Yaitanes performing double duty as director and showrunner. CD Ivy Thaide is designing the new CBS competition game show Hunted, with ACD Sara Jane Slotnick, where everyday people par- ticipate in a nationwide manhunt and are challenged to run from some of the world's most skilled investigators. Produced by Ende- mol Shine North America, it airs in January 2017, with the tagline "You can run, but can you hide—especially when you're Hunted." Britt Robertson stars in GIRLBOSS Whitney Cummings, CD Samantha Kuester, and Beanie Feldstein "With an outstanding comedic cast, there are a lot of laughs on set," says CD Samantha Kuester, who is designing the relationship comedy The Female Brain, starring Whit- ney Cummings, Sofía Vergara, James Marsden, and Beanie Feldstein. Produced by Black Bicycle Entertainment and co-written by Cummings and Neal Brennan, the feature is also Whitney Cumming's di- rectorial debut.