CAN Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh do no wrong? Judge for yourself.

With two major projects, Becoming Jane and Don Carlos, just opened in Dublin, the costume designer could comfortably wear the crown of Queen of Period Costume Design. Now, Eimer has just agreed to design the costumes for a big screen remake of Brideshead Revisited, a challenge to test the measuring tape of costume designers everywhere.

"I'm not afraid of it, even though it was such an iconic series. But I'm lucky that I've already done Becoming Jane. It's similar to taking on something as well known as Jane Austen. I've been through the business of people asking 'Oh, how are you going to do that'?

"I've discussed a few ideas with the director, Julian Jarrold (who also directed Becoming Jane) and I know I'm going to do it differently. I'm really looking forward to putting my own stamp on it. I want it to look really beautiful, to have that sense of an artist's vision and portraying the end of an era. But it's still early days, I'm just watching the series again."

Shooting starts in Castlehoward - where the original and some would say definitive television series was shot - in early June and Eimer will start researching on Monday, even though she still has to sign contracts. Although she can't give any more away about Brideshead Revisited, there's no secret about Don Carlos.

Currently running in the Project, critics are calling this "the best night in theatre in Dublin this year". No small compliment given that the play clocks in at three hours, (Friedrich Schiller's original ran for seven hours). Directed by Lynne Parker, Mike Poulton's adaptation presents a tale of manipulation, idealism and tyranny and although set in 16th century Spain, the political themes have resonances with what's going on in global politics today.

"We really wanted the costumes to help highlight this aspect. There was an artistic decision to use contemporary costumes for a vignette towards the end. We decided to use costumes from the 1940s and I was really worried about whether this would work or just confuse the audience. But so far the responses have been great.

People really like it, they say it helps make the link between the way things are now and how some things, like politics, just don't change."

Irish costume designers seem to be making a name for themselves at the moment with Consolata Boyle receiving an Oscar nomination for her work on The Queen. Eimer says success in this business is all down to hard work (damn, there goes another career we thought was all about glamour) and quick thinking."You generally have about eight weeks to research and put together a wardrobe for film, slightly longer for theatre."

While Eimer laughs at the suggestion that she might be dubbed queen of anything, she's has worked with cinema's royalty: Jim Sheridan (In America), Neil Jordan (Breakfast on Pluto) and Ken Loach with The Wind that Shakes the Barley.

There's one very important director, however with whom she has yet to work - Pedro Almodovar. "He's the reason I got into costume design in the first place. I studied Fashion Design in Limerick and had planned to work in fashion. Then, after college I lived in Spain for a while. My flat mates were studying film and they introduced me to Almodavar.

He's a genius. I was hooked and decided I wanted to work in film and costume design."

Lucky for us she did.