Wardrobe is a crucial component of today’s top rated entertainment projects as it helps define setting and personalities while establishing a creative visual connection between the character and the audience. Costume Designer Daniel Lawson, effortlessly showcases how clothing is a powerful component of storytelling.

Lawson is one of the many costume designers that has wonderfully given wings to several extremely successful film and television shows. The Good Wife, starring Julianna Margulies and Christine Baranski, has served to display some of his most prominent work to date and has been critically acclaimed and Emmy® nominated for its “impact and influence on dressing professional women.” It’s not only about the look of the clothes, but how they make the character feel within them, that resonates most with viewers and critics alike.

Lawson’s impressive and streamlined resume of work stems from his educational background in the creative arts. He began his costume design career at Northwestern University and obtained a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Theater. He later went on to earn a Master’s Degree from Rutgers University and spent the next two years freelancing as an assistant designer in New York City. It was from this point forward that Lawson became the person he was always destined to be, an accomplished costume designer in television and film with longevity. Some of his early work as an Assistant Costume Designer included television titles like OZ, Law and Order and Trinity to name a few. Later he took center stage designing costumes for the popular television series Third Watch, Kings, Limitless and more recently on BrainDead. Additional projects include big-screen Hollywood features such as The Bourne Ultimatum, Revolutionary Road, Enchanted and Perfect Stranger. Lawson has been awarded several accolades, and was most recently nominated for a 2016 Emmy® for “Outstanding Costumes in a Contemporary Series.”

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