Costume designer

A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costume designer works alongside the director, scenic, lighting designer, sound designer, and other creative personnel. The costume designer may also collaborate with hair stylist, wig master, or makeup artist. In European theatre, the role is different, as the theatre designer usually designs both costume and scenic elements.

Designers typically seek to enhance a character's personality, and to create an evolving plot of colour, changing social status, or period through the visual design of garments and accessories. They may distort or enhance the body—within the boundaries of the director's vision. The designer must ensure that the designs let the actor move as the role requires. The actor must execute the director's blocking of the production without damaging the garments. Garments must be durable and washable, especially for plays with extended runs or films with near-real time pacing (meaning that most costumes will not change between scenes) but whose principal photography phase may stretch across several weeks. The designer must consult not only with the director, but the set and lighting designers to ensure that all elements of the overall production design work together. The designer must possess strong artistic capabilities and a thorough knowledge of pattern development, draping, drafting, textiles and fashion history. The designer must understand historical costuming, and the movement style and poise that period dress may require.

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Barbie collaborates with Queen & Slim designer for Black History Month campaign

The Independent 20 Feb 2020

Barbie has launched a new campaign for Black History Month created in collaboration with stylist and costume designer Shiona Turini. . Turini, who worked as a costume designer on the recently released romantic crime drama Queen & Slim, shared a series of photographs of the campaign on her Instagram account....

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In pictures: Riverdance returns to Belfast stage with 25th anniversary show

Belfast Telegraph 20 Feb 2020

To celebrate the milestone, the show’s composer, Bill Whelan, re-recorded his Grammy Award-winning soundtrack, while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have updated the show with new lighting, projection, stage and costume designs ... She said it is “the best job in the world”, adding. “It’s that music. It’s incredible ... ....

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Theater review: Oklahoma Shakespeare brews up a potent 'Romeo & Juliet' in the Paseo

The Oklahoman 20 Feb 2020

Oklahoma Shakespeare steeps the youthful ardor, feuding families and bawdy buddies of "Romeo & Juliet" into a potent season opener ... Lloyd Cracknell's costume designs and Rebekah Garrett's lighting scheme help to effectively set the stage, which, per usual for Oklahoma Shakespeare on Paseo, ranges all over the venue ... [April Porterfield] ... ....

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The Radium Girls painted watch faces with a deadly radioactive compound. These Shining Lives recounts ...

Inlander 20 Feb 2020

In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen ... Whatever enhancements costumes, lighting and set design might offer, the thing Kilmer is emphasizing is the "humanity" of the Radium Girls and those who supported them ... ♦....

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Issa Mae and LaKeith Stanfield are smokin’ hot in The Photograph.

Memphis Flyer 20 Feb 2020

I'm kidding ... It's all part of the charm of the genre ... The variation to the formula comes from the parallel story, told in flashback with the help of some acid-washed '80s costume design, of how Christine escaped from poverty in Louisiana to become a famous photographer in the big city and the personal price she paid for her success ... .......

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‘Legends,’ Frank Marino going after mature audiences

Las Vegas Review-Journal 12 Feb 2020

Designer Pieter Grove’s royal blue costumes from Bill Acosta’s “Lasting Impressions” show at the Flamingo, produced by Jeanne Bavaro, also make a triumphant return. Those costumes allow the dancers to perform in pasties, also a first for “Legends,” which is going with more adult vibe than ever....

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Down the rabbit hole: why is 'Matrix dressing' so on trend?

The Guardian 11 Feb 2020

But from long leather coats to so-called “Matrix-style” sunglasses, the costumes I designed in the 90s continue to have influence to this day....

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See Edmondite Kara Troester at OKC Ballet this Valentine's Day

The Edmond Sun 11 Feb 2020

It was originally designed as a fitness facility for an energy firm ... A small display case held several costumes from the February production ... The set and costumes were designed by internationally known opera and ballet scenic designer Alain Vaes who originally created the hand-painted drops and elaborate costumes for the Boston Ballet....

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Oscars Get With the Political Program

Truth Dig 11 Feb 2020

Though female directors were for the most part overlooked in the screenplay and best director nominations, women won non-acting statuettes for musical score, animated short, documentary, production design and costume design....

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Review: Provocative production of ‘Hamlet’ gives noir feel to the classic text

AM New York 11 Feb 2020

And barely a year ago, Glenda Jackson played King Lear on Broadway ... Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO ... With a hazy lighting design, burning incense, ominous underscoring and an overwhelmingly black visual design (including towering black doors and funereal black costumes), this “Hamlet” initially resembles a 1940s film noir, full of mystery and suspense....

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French Creek’s ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ is anything but lethargic

Cleveland Jewish News 11 Feb 2020

Scenic designer Nic Thornburg’s transformation of our host’s small apartment into a supposedly glitzy Broadway stage during the heyday of high-budget musicals is unimpressive, though Vanessa Cook’s costuming helps....

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Chinese audience anxious for Oscar films

China.dot.org 11 Feb 2020

9, 2020 in Hollywood, California, the United States ... "Little Women," which won the best costume design award, once set for release on the Chinese mainland on Feb ... Sony's other film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, won the best supporting actor award for Brad Pitt and best production design at the Oscars ... 28 ... ....

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Avengers’ Mark Ruffalo is Taika Waititi’s biggest fan after historic Oscars win and our hearts can’t take it

Metro UK 11 Feb 2020

Mark Ruffalo (R) shared the love for Taika Waititi after his win (Pictures. Getty). Avengers star Mark Ruffalo has proven himself as Taika Waititi’s biggest fan after the Jojo Rabbit director’s historic win at the Oscars. No, you’re crying ... Best costume design - Jacqueline Durran, Little Women. Best production design - Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood ... ....