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“It begins with the script, and then the research, and then delving into the reality of the characters,” says “Snowfall” costume designer Mynka Draper about her work on the FX drama, which chronicles the crack epidemic in Los Angeles during the 1980s. The series required her to familiarize herself with the different intersecting groups involved in that story, from the Black and Hispanic communities to the CIA. “And I lived in LA in the ’80s, frankly. So I kind of lived through some of it, which I think is helpful.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Draper above.

The series stars Damson Idris as Franklin Saint, a low-level drug dealer who rises to become a kingpin, riding the wave of cocaine as it enters his neighborhood. Therefore, he exists between multiple social and economic strata, “so I think he dresses in a way to be able to integrate and blend...

Why is it we love the proverbial fish out of water? They don't quite fit in. They don't particularly care for their surroundings. And they don't really care to change. But if you're as put together as Tessa (Jane Levy) from "Suburgatory," airing Wednesdays on ABC, you're Ok with that.

New Yorkers such as Tessa have a special way about them: a compassionate intellectual elitism that blends confidence with reluctant tolerance. And when costume designer Mynka Draper was tasked with dressing Chatswin's resident dissident, she knew things weren't going to go as normal.

"We wanted Tessa and her father to pop colorwise, but make them darker," Draper ("Easy A," "CSI: Miami") tells Zap2it. "That's kinda the opposite from what you normally do for TV shows. So we've gone with more muted tones that are a bit edgier. After all, she's cute, young, intellectual, alternative with a tomboy edge."

She's...