“My mother was a crazy person with the ’60s hats,” said Donna Zakowska, the Emmy-nominated costume designer for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” the popular Amazon series about a woman who dives into the New York comedy scene of the 1950s.

About 35 of those hats currently hang at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn Navy Yard, where Ms. Zakowska clocks 13-hour days costuming mid-20th century New York characters. “Yeah,” she said, “the fortune teller in Mrs. Maisel wears my mother’s pink hat.”

But Ms. Zakowska, who lives in the West Village with her longtime boyfriend and collaborator, the director and puppeteer Roman Paska, relies on a darker palette for her own clothing. She will most likely wear “something black,” she said, to the Emmy Awards, which will take place in Los Angeles on Sept. 22.

BERRY SOUP I get up at 8, which, having been up by 4:30 to be on set by 6, is late. I’m a ritualist about my morning meal: I always make a French drip coffee called La Semeuse (you have to get it online). I always cook berries (blue, black, sometimes currants) in rosewater and tart cherry extract; then sprinkle them with walnuts and cinnamon. The berries come from LifeThyme on Sixth Avenue, which is like the last health food store standing in the West Village.