Carrie Coon’s Costume Corner: 'The Gilded Age' Season 3 Finale Goes Sartorially Hard
Welcome once again, friends, to Carrie Coon’s Costume Corner, where we look closely at the costume design of The Gilded Age and think out loud about design inspiration, as well as how they reflect and highlight various character relationships. It's been one of this site's guilty pleasures, and we thank you for coming along for the ride this season.
(Season 4 has been greenlit, but it most likely won't be out until 2027. If we're still trucking along then, we'll try to be back.)
The costumes for Carrie Coon’s character, the brilliant social schemer Bertha Russell, haven’t been the main focus for this season, perhaps because, having vanquished Mrs. Astor in The Opera Wars, she’s been focused on marrying her daughter Gladys off to the Duke of Buckingham. Old money doesn’t care all that much for novelty, and besides, they needed as much money as possible to meet the massive dowry Hector negotiated with George Russell. You can forgive Bertha for deciding that if a thing was worth wearing, it was worth wearing twice.
