The Peris Costumes warehouses are busy these days. From its facilities in Algete (Madrid) a lot of boxes have just left for Denmark and it is expected that in the coming days more will do so to New Zealand, New York, South Africa, Los Angeles and Iceland. These are just some of the between 50 and 70 orders in which the company specializing in the rental and manufacture of costumes for the audiovisual sector is currently working. In the boxes are suits, accessories, dresses, shoes and other wardrobe items from the huge assortment of the Spanish firm, famous throughout the world.
Film, television, theater and advertising production companies from all over the planet have been hiring the services of this centuries-old tailor shop for decades, which has one of the best
stocks
in quantity and quality, to dress the characters of their projects.
Robert de Niro, Sara Montiel, Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, Bradly Cooper
, Elle Fanning, Antonio Banderas, Leonor Watling, Belén Rueda and a very long etcetera are some of the actors and actresses that the firm of Valencian origin
has dressed
in recent years.
"Peris has transformed the clothing rental business and we have fundamentally become a service company that not only helps costume designers, but also saves them time and costs," says Javier Toledo, CEO of the company .
One of the ships with clothes from Peris Costumes.
The
boom
in
streaming
platforms
and series in recent years has done nothing more than increase the business and prestige of Peris Costumes. His clothes and accessories have been part of
such recently recognized
shows
as
Gambit de Dama
,
Los Bridgerton
,
The Crown
,
Vikingos
,
Chernobyl
,
Peacky Blinders
s
,
La Casa de Papel, 30 coins
or the
Ministry of time
, among many others.
The firm has gone from making 100 productions a year to about 400 or 500
.
"There has been an explosion of orders, the majority, 70%, for series. The platforms need to generate content very quickly and for that reason the deadlines have been reduced and the budgets, too," says María Ortega, project manager of the company .
A 'stock' of six million items
Most of the business consists of renting their
stock
(with more than six million pieces including clothing, footwear, accessories and jewelry from all eras) to the production companies. The costume designers are his main clients, who go to seek costume ideas at the company headquarters. There, in the six warehouses they have in Algete (more than 22,000 m2) with endless aisles of perfectly cataloged clothes hanging, they can find everything. There are from exclusive dresses from the 20s of the last century, nightgowns, costumes from the 17th and 18th centuries, headdresses and shoes to armor, shields and tunics of Romans or Greeks, Viking helmets, barbarian clothing and military uniforms of all kinds and years. . The most current and modern occupies an entire warehouse, of 1,700 m2, which feeds series such as
Sky Red
,
I'm alive
or
Jack Ryan
.
"The costumes in productions are increasingly being cared for, especially in series and period films; in the case of
La Templanza
, Amazon Prime's new bet, they spent about five months preparing only the costumes. The coat of one of the protagonists they were doing it in the tailoring workshop for more than a month, "says Ortega.
One of the party dresses used in 'The Bridgertons'.
On other occasions, costume designers prefer that the garments be made in the Peris workshops.
For this, they send the sketches and measurements, as was
the case
of Netflix's
Los Bridgertons
, one of the productions they are currently dealing with.
. After having made 200 of the 7,000 period costumes that were used in the first season of the British series, they are now preparing for the second, which will begin filming shortly. In the Peris tailoring department, the patterns of the colorful frock coats that the male characters of this successful production will wear are very meticulous and totally handcrafted. "In this case we make them to size, that is, we did not have the measurements, but we had to assemble everything with the sizes that they have given us from England. Once they have been sent, tested on the actors and made the adjustments there, the jackets They return to Peris to make them in another warehouse near here ", comments Javier Varas García, head of the department. Garments made to measure are also rented and,after filming, they return to Peris Costumes to increase the
company stock
.
Exclusive workshops
Preparing shoes for a production.
Five people work in the leather workshop who tirelessly make exclusive pieces that add real added value to the company. The spectacular leather jacket, whose reliefs were made with a chisel, that was used in the film
Maleficent
, the leather helmets and masks from
La Plague
or the costume worn by the protagonist of
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
(2018) are some of the proudest in the company. "We have the best
leather
atelier
, with highly experienced and reputable artisans in the sector who have worked for a long time in productions such as
Game of Thrones
or
Vikings
", says Javier Toledo.
Another five people work in the shoe store that Peris has set up to produce for the cinema.
They craft between 30 and 50 pairs of shoes daily, depending on the complexity.
Awaiting delivery are the colorful vintage slippers for the
Bridgerton
actresses
or a few 7th-century Italian flats with a platform for another international production.
Jewelry and accessories department.
One of the most incredible departments is the jewelry department, where figuirinistas go crazy to complete the
looks
. Thousands of pieces divided and cataloged by time (from the Ancient Ages to the present) make up this kind of film museum. There you can find the crowns of
Los Borgia
, the jewels of
The Spanish Princess
or
Cleopatra
, the headdresses of
Dumbo
, the glasses that Johnny Depp wore in
Waiting for the Barbarians
or the religious rings and crosses of Jude Law in
The Young Pope.
.
"To use the rings, the costume designers had an adviser from the Vatican, who approved all those who were put on the series. If they did not find something specific, it was made especially for production in Italy," they assure in Peris Costumes.
the beginning
The origin of Peris Costumes is in a small family tailor shop in Valencia founded in 1856 to make costumes for the entertainment world. The transfer of the business to Madrid at the end of the 19th century meant its take off: instead of selling the suits that the company made, it was decided to rent them, so the
stock was
growing, and it began to collaborate with the productions of the Royal Theater. In the 60s, the company was in charge of the costumes for national and international films, such as
The Last Cuplé
with Sara Montiel or
Espartaco
, with Kirk Douglas, a film that received the Oscar for Best Costume Design in 1961.
In 2012 the family business changed hands and the new shareholders began a process of international expansion, opening new branches and establishing
partnerships
in all those countries that offer the best conditions for the audiovisual production industry, which has placed Peris in a unique position in the sector.
Today it has seven branches in Europe (including Lisbon, London, Vienna and Berlin), which employ 203 people (52 in Spain) and invoice about 14.5 million euros per year.
The headquarters are in Madrid.
"We are pioneers and specialists in accompanying the evolution of a sector whose rate of change has been enormous in the last five years. Our letter of introduction is each one of the productions with which we work; one after another they are telling the rest how it is our job. The more and more well-known productions, the better for us ", concludes Javier Toledo.
Leather workshop.
Much has happened since the first Spanish production that hired his services, the historical series
Isabel
.
Since then, many have been the recognitions they have received for their costumes (Goya, Berlin Bear, Oscar ...).
The French film
The Promise at Dawn
(2017) won the César for best costume in France and more recently,
Mulan
has been nominated for an Oscars for her costumes, coming from Peris Costumes.
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