Most recently I created costumes for High School Musical - Tour and won an Emmy for “Benise: nights of Fire” a PBS Flamenco Special. The last five years I have been designing for director Christopher Guest commercially. I started out styling hundreds of commercials, which taught me precise characterization, collaboration, speed and versatility.
I designed the last season of Grounded for Life and my first sitcom was Blossom. Chippendale’s was another notable credit for innovation of breakaway designs.
Upcoming: High School Musical
Benise: Nights of fire The YinYang thing
x-testers
Grounded for Life
Dinner & A Movie
The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno
Faster Baby, Run
Common Law
Best Years
Prudy and Judy
Blossom
Disney
Dockers (Superbowl)
Target
Revlon
Playstation
NBC Fall Season
McDonalds
AARP
PSA
Prudential
Juice Resorts Casino
AT & T
Ocean Spray
Healthy Choice
Sunny D
Honda (54)
Toyota
Washington Mutual
Olympics
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
Bank One
Progresso
Intel
CBS Promo
SEGA
Home Fed
Lowenbrau
Wrigley’s
Six Flags
Gatorade
Principal Health Care (S)
Fresh Step
AllTel
BRUT
RC Cola
Aliante
Cleveland Golf
Fox Sports
Isuzu
Korean Airlines
Healthy Choice (17)
DIRECTORS
Christopher Guest
Chuck Clemens
Ron Finley
Justin Leibow
Pierre De Lespinois
Guy Ferland
Don Guy
Walter High &
Scott Mcveigh
Peter Klein
Phil Morrison
Todd Phillips
Bill Linsman
Kevin Mcnight
Jamie Mortellaro
Tim Patterson
Vadim Perelman
Mark Zavad
Charles Powell
Timothy Eaton
Jan Debont
Luis Soto
Dan Swietlik
Tadakazu Takahashi
Bill Werts
Scott Williams
Chris Woods
Jon Yarbrough
Norman Seeff
Ron Finley
Chris Korody
Randy Pyburn
Ted Wass
Marc Greenfield
Dan Levinson
Ken Nahoum
CELEBRITIES
Cindy Crawford
Tommy Lee
Ben Affleck
Ray Charles
Tony Shalhoub
Mickey Rooney
David Schwimmer
Wade Robson
John Mayer
Britney Spears
Bernadette Peters
Shannon Doherty
Christopher Guest
LeBron James
Orlando Jones
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Nia Vardalos
Slash
Ryan Reynolds
Brad Pitt
Jamie Lee Curtis
Gwyneth Paltrow
Finola Hughes
Rachel Griffiths
Jay Leno
Terry Bradshaw
FILM “Aspen
Extreme” 1992 Director: EJ Foerster 2nd Unit Supervisor
“I Think You’ve Met My Wife”
1991 Director: Michael Bloom Costume Designer “Son-In
Law” (trailer) 1992 Director: Oren Aviv Costume Designer
MUSIC VIDEOS
Motley Crue “Home Sweet Home” 1990
Dir: Matt Mahurin Michael W. Smith
“Place in this World” 1990 Dir: Gerry Wenner
Hammer “ Too Legit To Quit” 1991
Dir: Rupert Wainwright
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
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005
19:45:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Megyn xx
Subject: Resume for Erin "Topaz" Lareau
To: xx
Dear - :
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.
