By Karen Ostlund

A little Glee at FIDM Fashion Museum

HOLLYWOOD, CA  (Hollywood Today) — The FIDM Museum & Galleries and the Academy of Television Art & Sciences is exhibiting most of the costumes up for the Emmy Costume Design Awards.

It will be the 5^th time the downtown museum will present the wardrobes we love, or love to hate, depending on if they are worn by a good guy or bad guy. Included will be costumes from “Glee,” “The Tudors,” “Mad Men,” “The Good Wife” and more.

all delighted to present the 5th Annual Art of Television Costume Design exhibition, which is curated even this year by Mary Rose (President of the Costume Designers Guild).

2010 Creative Arts Emmy Awards are only three weeks away, and it will be presented August 21^st at the Nokia Theatre downtown  Los Angeles.

The 62^nd Primetime Emmy Awards will be seen live 8pm (P.T.) &  5pm (E.T.) on NBC on Sunday, August 29^th.

The exhibition will run thru September 4^th, and features seventy-five costumes, which six are from this years’ Emmy nominated shows.

The jury will look for creativity and style in the garments, together with skills, talent, research and imagination.

Each dress will show visual art of storytelling.

The Outstanding Costumes for a Series are:

Showtime : The Tudors – Joan Bergin (Costume designer),  Susan Cave (Wardrobe Supervisor)

This is the concluding season of The Tudors, that brings us through the final years of King Henry VIII. He is now in his late forties, and as king  more obsessed than ever with his quest for an heir. The scandalous reign of King Henry will stop at nothing to secure his place in history.

AMC : Mad Men – Janie Bryant (Costume designer), Le Dawson (Costume Supervisor)

The series is set in the 1960s New York, and revolves around the conflicted world of Don Draper, both ladies man and adman at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Advertising Agency. It also shows the roles between men and women in this time era, the 1960’s traditional family values.

FOX : Glee – Lou A. Eyrich  (Costume designer),  Marisa Aboitiz (Costume Supervisor)

Glee is a new comedy series, which follows an optimistic teacher, Will Schuester. He attempts to save McKinley High’s Glee Club from obscurity and a malicious cheerleading coach. At the same time,  he is trying to help a group of aspiring  underdogs from the same school, which he later realize have true star potential.

CBS : The Good Wife – Daniel Lawson (Costume designer), Jennifer Rogien Faletti and Daniele Hollywood (both Assistant Costume Designers)

It’s a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother. She starts over to work as a defense attorney, after her husband’s very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

The Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special are:

PBS : Return to Cranford – Jenny Beavan (Costume designer), Alison Beard (Costume Supervisor)

Based on the stories of Victorian-era writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Change is racing towards the small village of Cranford, of unexpected losses and surprising romances.

Lifetime :Georgia O’Keeffe – Michael Dennison (Costume designer), Michael Crow (Assistant Costume Designer) , Frances Vega (Costume Supervisor)

The story is about the then unknown female artist Georgia O’Keeffe, and her work & love relationship with famed photographer and art impresario Alfred Stieglitz. The couple meet after Georgia discovers him displaying her drawings in his gallery without her permission, and confronts him to remove the collection.

FIDM Museum & Galleries (919 S. Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90015.) are open Tuesday thru Saturday, 10am-4pm, and admission is free of charge.