What do Mad Men , Hannah Montana , Sex And The City and Austin Powers have in common? They’re all projects with highly recognizable costume design — and the clothes have made the jump to retail. Awesome… unless you’re most costume designers. According to a piece by Anna Stewart for Variety : Brooks Brothers carries the Mad Men Edition suit, with costume designer Janie Bryant clearly credited. But Bryant’s fellow costume designers usually do not share in her good fortune. You will not find their names on those trendsetting dresses, those must-have leather jackets, those sought-after dolls — all those commercial goodies that came out of such films as Hannah Montana , The Matrix , Spider-Man , and Wall Street . Those creative minds didn’t see a dime of your expenditure. And …
