Nancea Ceo, costume designer for Showtime’s TheChi, The CW’s TheOriginals and Netflix’s OnMyBlock, finds an endless wellspring of ideas at a favorite spot in Culver City | “Walk a Mile In My Shoes” from GEOX sponsored
“Everything here feels inspiring,” says costume designer Nancea Ceo, scanning the shelves at Arcana: Books on the Arts. “It is like a museum.”
But she is on hiatus now, so she has time to visit favorite places, including Arcana. She’s a regular here. The owners know her by name and greet her as she enters the store. “Let’s go down here,” she says, eyeing a shelf that includes books by fashion photographers Helmut Newton and Matthew Rolston. Ceo then points to a hardcover fashion design tome that sits beneath a plexiglass tabletop. “That’s a good one, baby.”
It’s a warm spring day, with the first hint of summer in the air. Ceo has assembled a stylish seasonal look for herself: A western-themed denim-on-denim look with a custom-made wide brim hat, a crystal belt from Bali, and taupe suede shoes featuring fringe, studs, and a synthetic python print. She moved to Los Angeles, but like many, found that a humbling experience. “I had to start from the bottom again,” she says. “I was cleaning shoes. I was hanging stuff. I was steaming [clothes]. I was running errands. If I was lucky, I was on set. Because [Los Angeles] was a much bigger pool. I realized what I didn’t know, and so I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to learn it,’ and I stuck it out.”
Ceo is a longtime vegetarian who went vegan, and she is enthusiastic about bringing environmentalism into her work. “I tend to reuse clothes,” she says. “I’ll treat an episodic TV or TV episodes as if it were one film. So, the clothes move in and out of the show, rather than just buying new, new, new.” She also tries to shop locally and even cuts paper tags in half so her team can use them twice rather than once.
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