The Journey

Born and raised in Niagara Falls, New York, Mark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater Arts from Stony Brook University. He then worked at the legendary Barbara Matera Costumes in New York City as a shopper for a wide range of Broadway, dance and film projects. Following Matera’s, Mark earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in costume design from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. While still living in in New York City, Mark began working in film whenever possible, first as design assistant to Colleen Atwood on the Jonathon Demme film Married to the Mob and Assistant Costume designer on the film In the Spirit with Marlo Thomas and Elaine May.

    In 1988, Mark worked as design assistant for designer Richard Hornung on the film Miller's Crossing (1990), a collaboration that would continue for eight more films. In 1989, Mark relocated to Los Angeles to be Assistant Costume Designer to Richard Hornung on The Grifters (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Doc Hollywood (1991), Hero (1992), Dave (1993), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), Natural Born Killers (1994), and Nixon (1995).

In 1995, Mark began his costume design collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, eventually designing all eight of Anderson’s films:  Hard Eight (aka Sydney, 1996). Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch Drunk Love (2002) ,There Will Be Blood (2008) The Master (2012), Inherent Vice (2014),(Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design), and Phantom Thread (2017) in which Mark won his second Academy Award, BAFTA award and Critic’s Choice Award.

    Mark was first honored with an Academy Award, a BAFTA award and The Critic’s Choice award in 2012, for his costume design for the Best Picture Academy Award winner The Artist (2011), for director Michel Hazanavicius.

  Mark has also designed costumes for directors Martin Scorsese, Todd Phillips, Paul Greengrass, Noah Baumbach, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Curtis Hansen, F Gary Gray and David O. Russell.

    Bridges' costume designs were part of the Hollywood Costume exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, the 1998 Biennale di Firenze Fashion/Cinema exhibit and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences exhibit Fifty Designers, Fifty Costumes: Concept to Character shown in Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Mark was one of the film artists included in On Otto, an installation at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.

    Bridges' design work has appeared in publications as diverse as Australian Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Dressing in the Dark by Marion Maneker, and Dressed: 100 Years of Cinema Costume by Deborah Nadoolman Landis.

For a full list of credits go to IMDB