Magilla Entertainment, Hal Rubenstein Team for New Series

Writer and media personality Hal Rubenstein has partnered with Magilla Entertainment for a screen adaptation of his 2023 bestseller Dressing the Part: Television’s Most Stylish Shows.

In Dressing the Part, Rubenstein asserts that no medium has impacted our lives as thoroughly and consistently as television. The new series, currently in development, will tap Rubenstein’s access to the industry’s designers, producers and stars for a tour through the closets of series and characters.

Rubenstein commented: “I’ve chronicled style in magazines, at fashion’s capitals and on the red carpet, but no source has ever matched television’s ever-increasing influence, inspiring our wardrobes for work, being at home, going on a date, taking a vacation or getting ready for a big night out. Writing Dressing the Part was a joyous endeavor; I couldn’t believe no book had ever celebrated the power of TV costume design, its incredible artists and the decades of enviable clothes they’ve created. The only thing that could be more exciting and rewarding is to now use the television medium to showcase its own potent, savvy, sometimes silly but often dazzling power over what we hang in our closets. This is going to be fun.”

“A docuseries on this topic, charting 70 years of trendsetting television—with an eye on fashion—is long overdue,” said Laura Palumbo Johnson, Magilla co-founder. “The only person with the access, expertise and gravitas to anchor a series like this is Hal Rubenstein. His book hit on a widely recognized yet unexplored phenomenon, and we’re delighted to team up to further illustrate and expand on the source material.”

Costume designer Eric Daman, featured in Dressing the Part and behind series such as Gossip Girl and Billions, added, “With so much media and cultural interest in fashion’s influence on television and television’s influence on fashion, Hal’s illuminating Dressing the Part is an iconic pop culture capsule of legendary TV style for the ages! This epic, binge-worthy collection of design and insider insight is well poised to capture the complete attention of viewers, including fabulous fashionistas across all generations.”