Lou Eyrich
‘The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’ (FX)Eyrich has been collaborating with Ryan Murphy for decades, since his early Glee days — from Jane Lynch’s iconic tracksuit look on that show to Lily Rabe’s demonic nun getup on American Horror Story: Asylum. And now, Eyrich has her eighth Emmy nomination (she’s won two twice) for her work re-creating the designs of a fashion empire on The Assassination of Gianni Versace, which chronicles the weeks leading to the 1997 murder of the iconic designer.
“We scoured the internet for weeks and weeks,” Eyrich says of her early research. Despite a tight budget, her crew built the looks using a combination of vintage Versace and custom-made pieces. However, her favorite look from the nominated episode, “The Man Who Would Be Vogue,” is not based on an outfit that Versace wore or designed at all.
“Ryan Murphy, who is very hands-on with costumes, said that he would love it if we could make some kind of a pink and gold robe,” she says of the wrap that Versace (Edgar Ramirez) dons at the beginning of the episode. “So, a tailor custom made it. When we came to shoot the scene at the casa in Miami, we had him in the black T-shirt and white shorts that he eventually gets [killed] in, and Ryan called me and said, ‘Do you have that pink robe?’ ”
Perhaps the robe was meant to add some color to an otherwise bleak day. Or maybe Murphy just likes pink.
“I do not know why pink,” Eyrich admits. “That’s just something that Ryan came up with, and I always follow his instincts. They’re always spot-on.”
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