For over twenty years "Topaz" Erin Lareau has been involved professionally in all aspects of costume design for various forms of entertainment media.
She won a 2006 Emmy for Outstanding Costume Design for Music or Variety Special.
Recent works include costume design on MICHAEL JACKSON'S "This Is It" Tour/Film, SCREAM AWARDS '07, '08 & '09, DIVAS LIVE, Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CONCERT TOUR & ICE TOUR. She has worked with renowned directors Kenny Ortega and Christopher Guest, and the directors of Little Miss Sunshine.
Topaz has styled more than four hundred commercials, with precise characterization, collaboration and versatility. For the last ten years Topaz has been designing for director Christopher Guest Commercially. Some of her work presently airing includes DirecTV, Healthy Choice, & Las Vegas Tourism "What Happens in Vegas..."
She spent three years at "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", and was the costume designer on "Blossom", "Grounded for Life", several pilots, series and reality shows... She designed "Chippendales" back in the day. She also designed the first Opera music video with Director Vincent Paterson, spectacular pre-Olympic shows for Nike and a special event in Las Vegas for Intel.
Thank you for your consideration.
"The best I've ever worked with”
Producer Shawn Wilt 818-694-4344
"Creative, artistic, resourceful”
Producer Arleen Sorkin 310-252-9933
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Wishes, Erin Lareau
323 851-9444
SELECTED CREDITS
Michael Jackson’s “This Is It”
VH1 Divas Live Scream Awards
Yanni: Voices Live from Mundo Imperial
TV Land Awards/ Guys Choice
Benise Nights of Fire - Emmy
High School Musical Concert Tour
Dinner & A Movie
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Common Law
Prudy & Judy
Best Years Blossom
Disney Dockers (Superbowl) Target
DirecTV Brut TLC Discovery Channel Promos
Playstation NBC Fall Season Promos McDonalds
AARP PSA Prudential
Juice Resorts Casino AT & T
Ocean Spray Healthy Choice (17) Sunny D
Honda (54) Olympic Games
Toyota Washington Mutual
ESPN Beyond.com
Frosted Flakes Sudafed
AirTouch Cellular Good Guys
Lee Jeans Duracell
Hefty Ford
Citibank Card
Mazda
Microsoft
Quaker Oats
Taco Bell
Pringles
New England Telephone
Isuzu
Bank One
Progresso
Olympics
What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas
Intel
CBS Promo
SEGA
Home Fed
Lowenbrau
Wrigley’s
Six Flags
Gatorade
Principal Health Care
Fresh Step
AllTel
BRUT
RC Cola
Aliante
Cleveland Golf
Fox Sports
CELEBRITIES
Brad Pitt John Mayer Slash Ben Affleck Cindy Crawford Tommy Lee Liam Neeson Ray Charles Tony Shalhoub Mickey Rooney
Vanessa Hudgens Ryan Reynolds Padma Lakshmi Jay Leno Christopher Guest LeBron James Wade Robson Orlando Jones Zsa Zsa Gabor Nia Vardalos
Ashley Tisdale Katy Perry Bernadette Peters Jamie Lee Curtis Gwyneth Paltrow Finola Hughes Rachel Griffiths Vanessa Williams Terry Bradshaw Holly Robinson Peete
REFERENCE LETTERS:
Erin,
I wanted to thank you for being such a team player and making
us all look good. It is difficult to take a chance on someone
you do not know, but this time it paid off amazingly well. Thank
you for being so easy to take direction, adapt to changes and
fulfill the vision. I very much appreciate it. You definitely met and even exceeded
my expectations.
Raj
Raj Kapoor it Creative Services, Inc. 201 S. Lucerne Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90004
I'm a friend and, by the way, a huge fan of Erin Lareau. I worked
with her on the last season of "Grounded for Life,"
and I have to tell you she absolutely transformed our show.
She's just a spectacular talent and couldn't be a nicer, more
positive person. She has a way of making all of her actors look
and feel like a million bucks. I could go on and on, but I'll
just attach her resume and let you judge for yourself.
Best --
Megyn Price
Dear -
I am writing on behalf of Erin Lareau,
who has worked for me twice now, as Costume Designer and Head
of the Costume Department on a pilot shot this year for Fox
Broadcasting, “ The Best Years,” and as Costume
Designer and Head of the Costume Department on my series “Common
Law” for ABC Television (also this year). On both productions
I was Executive Producer, Creator and Writer.
Ms. Lareau did an outstanding job in
both cases, illustrating character definition through a broad
and innovative range of costume design and choices for our
entire casts as well as guest casts. Between the two projects,
ewe covered characters as diverse as Manhattan attorneys,
Los Angeles Bartenders, young Hollywood nightclub denizens,
New Jersey street thugs, and even strolling them park characters.
She was tremendously helpful and collaborative in aiding the
development of all these characters through costuming. Her
attention to detail was remarkable—down to designing
food-themed earrings for a coffee cart lady – and her
intuitive understanding of what characters need to wear in
various situations made my shows more successful visually.
I vested complete responsibility for these decisions and she
always gave us what we were looking for and far more.
Additionally she managed the Costume
Department adeptly and always adhered to our sometimes draconian
budgets. I look forward to working with Ms Lareau again; she
is extremely talented and was an indispensable part of our
productions.