“Shōgun,” the FX historical drama set in 17th-century Japan starring and produced by Hiroyuki Sanada, won a history-making 18 Emmys in September. One of those went to costume designer Carlos Rosario, who oversaw a team of 125 people responsible for producing thousands of garments for the cast and extras. He felt a deep responsibility that his work be historically accurate, so he sourced all of his fabrics from Japan and rented traditional Japanese clothing from the Sengoku era so that he and his team could study their construction and reproduce them using similar techniques.
“We rented [pieces] from Japan so we could understand the architecture, how they make them,” Rosario told TheWrap.