Cleveland, Tenn. native Janey Bryant is an award-winning costume designer for the AMC TV series “Mad Men.”ABOUT JANIE BRYANT* Hometown: Cleveland, Tenn.* Education: Graduate of Brenau Academy in Gainesville, Ga., attended Georgia State University and studied at the American College of Applied Arts in Atlanta.* First costuming job: A Nick at Nite ad.* Awards: Won 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series for “Deadwood,” 2009 Outstanding Costume Design for Television Series for “Mad Men” from Costume Designers Guild, Emmy nominee for “Mad Men.”* Books: Author of “The Fashion File.”Source: janiebryant.com, Times Free Press archivesSEASON 4 RECAPSpoiler alert! Here’s a quick recap of the questions left by Season 4’s cliffhangers.* Although romancing his therapist, Don Draper proposes to his 20-something sexy secretary, Megan, within days after sleeping with her. Will he go through with the marriage?* Roger lost the Lucky Strike account; is the boozing ad exec still valuable to the agency?* Joan, who is carrying Roger’s baby, came close to terminating her pregnancy but walked out of the abortion clinic at the last moment. Will she really try to pass Roger’s child off as her husband’s, who is fighting in Vietnam?* Peggy saved Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce by landing a pantyhose account. Will the agency’s big boys ever take her seriously, or will she find acceptance in New York’s growing counter-culture?
After a 17-month wait, “Mad Men” viewers can almost hear the ice tinkling in Don Draper’s highball.
AMC’s Emmy-winning drama returns at 9 o’clock tonight with a two-hour premiere. But “Mad Men” creator Matt Weiner plans to tease fans a little longer for the answers to Season 4’s cliffhangers, according to industry magazine reports. The premiere is set to begin with a time jump before returning to the point viewers last visited the fictitious Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce ad agency.
Will Jon Hamm’s sartorial ad exec, Don Draper, adopt a younger image to match his trophy fiancee? Will mom-to-be Christina Hendricks rock a 1960s hatching jacket the way she does a cowl-neck sheath?
The woman making those decisions is Janie Bryant, who was born and raised in Cleveland, Tenn.