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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Ruth E. Carter Costume Installation To Debut At New York Fashion Week (Exclusive)

The Hollywood Reporter 23 Jan 2019

The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusive details about the IMG and Harlem’s Fashion Row event (to be held on February 6, during New York Fashion Week) that will present a curation and reimagination of the work of renowned costume designer Ruth E ... While some costumes were ......

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The 'Black Panther' Costume and Song Oscar Nominations Are a Big Moment

Vice 23 Jan 2019

Ryan Coogler's epic Marvel masterpiece garnered a Best Costume Design nom for the previously-nominated Ruth E ... The Best Costume Design category has largely become a space reserved to honor period pieces that take inspiration from old European or white American period dress....

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'Black Panther' makes Oscar history with best picture nod

Journal Review 23 Jan 2019

Carter's costume design and Kendrick Lamar and SZA's song "All the Stars ." ... ''The nominations let me know that not only Marvel fans, people of Africa and African-Americans felt really happy about this film, and loved the costume designs."....

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How the Black Panther Oscar nominations made history

Stylist 23 Jan 2019

Black Panther was also recognised in the Best Original Score category, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Song, Best Costume Design and Best Production ... Her nomination for Black Panther is her third for costume design, after she became the first black person nominated in the category in 1993 for Malcolm X....

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Neeta Lulla gives a sneak peek into the making of Manikarnika costumes and jewellery

Indian Express 23 Jan 2019

... has gone behind the making of the costumes of Manikarnika ... Lulla, who has earlier won the National Award for Costume Design for historical dramas like Devdas and Jodha Akbar, gave us a glimpse of the process with videos and sketches on Instagram....

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Oscars 2019: How ‘Black Panther’ made history with nominations

Gulf News 23 Jan 2019

Overall, ‘Black Panther’ was rewarded a total of seven nominations including Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart’s production design, Ruth E Carter’s costume design and Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s song ‘All the Stars.’ The film was also nominated for best sound editing, sound mixing and original score....

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(Oscars) Blockbuster Black Panther makes history

Hong Kong Standard 23 Jan 2019

Carter’s costume design and Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s song "All the Stars.” The film was also nominated for best sound editing, sound mixing and original score ... and African-Americans felt really happy about this film, and loved the costume designs.”-AP....

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Cardboard costumes transform Bogota artist's life

RTE 23 Jan 2019

... by dressing up in homemade costumes based on characters from the popular Transformers film series ... Cruz has worn eight different costumes over the years and his entire family helps out with costume design - like which characters to emulate and what colours to paint his costumes....

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Where to Watch the 2019 Oscar Nominees in Seattle

The Stranger 23 Jan 2019

Best Picture, Actress in a Supporting Role , Original Screenplay, Actress in a Leading Role , Director , Production Design, Cinematography, Costume Design, and Film Editing) ... Original Song and Production Design) ... Costume Design and Makeup & Hairstyling)....

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Oscars 2019: British talents take charge

Gulf News 23 Jan 2019

British costume designer Sandy Powell bagged two nominations for her creations in ‘The Favourite’ and Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins Returns’. Among her fellow Costume Design contenders is Briton Alexandra Byrne for historical drama ‘Mary Queen of Scots’, a film which also saw British make-up artist Jenny Shircore nominated alongside colleagues....

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'Black Panther' Oscar nomination for costumes is a win for St. Louis' Kevin Mayes

St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Jan 2019

Shout out to clothing designer and tailor Kevin Mayes, a St. Louis native, for his work on the “Black Panther” costumes, nominated for several Oscars today including best costume design ... ....

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‘Black Panther’ makes Oscar history with best picture nod

Honolulu Star-Advertiser 23 Jan 2019

Carter’s costume design and Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s song “All the Stars.” The film was also nominated for best sound editing, sound mixing and original score ... and African-Americans felt really happy about this film, and loved the costume designs.”....

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Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman, Christian Bale lead British talent charge in very international race

DNA India 23 Jan 2019

British costume designer Sandy Powell bagged two nominations for her creations in The Favourite and Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Among her fellow Costume Design contenders is Briton Alexandra Byrne for historical drama Mary Queen of Scots, a film which also saw British make-up artist Jenny Shircore nominated alongside colleagues....