Genevieve Tyrrell - Costume Designer

This week's episode is with Costume Designer Genevieve Tyrrell ⚡️

This Podcast is very special to us Gals at GFP since two of us have assisted Genevieve in the Costume world. 

Genevieve has been working as a Costume Designer based out of Los Angeles, CA for over 20 years. She worked for 11 years in the industry before having her son-Hank aka “Giant Child…GC for short.” (He’s 16 years old and 6’3.)

We go into Genevieve’s story starting with styling a multitude of artists' music videos including “The Counting Crows,” and then going on to design independent features llanding her landing her an agent at the age of 25 (!!) and from there her career took off. 

While Genevieve was designing “Entourage,” for HBO she became pregnant with her son. She was also going to UCLA for Landscape Design. “Not a lot of consideration or compassion for a pregnant Costume Designer," during that project and Genevieve coming to the realization that she “wasn’t Wonderwoman hit me like a brick wall.” She then had to refocus her attention to becoming a Mother and balancing Work/Life.

Genevieve guides us through pressures and Mom-Guilt she felt that came along with being a working Mother. The added anxiety of racing from work to childcare was a daily stressor when Hank was young. She shares with us memories and sacrifices she made of the jobs she took-some for creative endeavors, and some to get by and be able to pay the bills. How many of us can relate to this?!

We appreciate Genevieve sharing her personal experience as a Mother to Hank and Co-Parenting with Hank’s Father and Step Mother.  Hank is a now a teenager and G shares with us how their dynamic has changed, and how their Mother Son relationship has evolved. 

Supportive, talented, kind, and respectful of her crew and their time and outside lives. The work environment she strives for is “nurturing,” and we couldn’t agree more. 

Parenthood to Genevieve is "tough and a beautiful challenge."

"At the end of the day you don’t love anything or any person more than you love that child although they may have aggravated you or put you thru the ringer.” 😜

Follow Genevieve on Instagram @gtastic