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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Inside Lagos Fashion Week with Hollywood Stylist Joan Reidy

The Hollywood Reporter 17 Nov 2018

“You’re basically doing an entire fashion week in three days,” says the Brooklyn-based stylist, costume designer and brand consultant, who kicked off her career as an assistant to Andrea Lieberman (who went on to found the clothing label A.L.C.) Since then, ......

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The salwar is dead

Live Mint 17 Nov 2018

Bhanu Athaiya, the Oscar-winning costume designer of Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982), is the woman behind this it-suit of the 1960s ... Collaborations between fashion and films were on the rise, as designers turned costume stylists for movies and Bollywood actors began to ......

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Search for Wizard of Oz concentrated on Birmingham

British Theatre Guide 17 Nov 2018

Published. 17 November 2018 ... A company of 16 actors will be led by Chisara Agor as Dorothy ... Designer is Angela Davies, with costume and puppet designs by Samuel Wyer, lighting design by Nick Richings and sound design by Paul Groothius....

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Mother-and-daughter picks: whimsical jewelry

Manila Bulletin 17 Nov 2018

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Lineker scores with part in Leicester’s Treasure Island

British Theatre Guide 17 Nov 2018

Published. 17 November 2018. Former Leicester City and England striker Gary Lineker is to appear at Leicester Haymarket during its panto Treasure Island—but not in person ... Music is by David Perkins. The Haymarket Consortium’s Ellyn Phillips (Studio 79) will choreograph, Rebecca Brower is set and costume designer and Max Pappenheim is sound designer....

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How the salwar kameez has evolved over the decades

Live Mint 17 Nov 2018

Movie stars like Sadhana and costume designers like Bhanu Athaiya popularized new skin-hugging silhouettes, borrowing tailoring techniques from the West ... this decade took a turn towards sheer, strappy designs, seen most famously on Madhuri Dixit in ‘Dil Toh Pagal Hai’....

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By studying 400,000 knitters, researcher discovers what turns a hobby into a business

The Keene Sentinel 17 Nov 2018

Remarkably, Ravelry’s design encourages their users to do almost exactly that ... Many had already been modifying patterns and designing their own yarn gnomes and cat costumes, but until they heard from others, they lacked the confidence to step out on their own ... Women tended to be skilled stitchers and pattern designers before they joined groups....

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Researcher discovers what turns a hobby into a business

Cedar Rapids Gazette 17 Nov 2018

Ravelry’s design encourages their users to do almost exactly that ... Many had already been modifying patterns and designing their own yarn gnomes and cat costumes, but until they heard from others, they lacked the confidence to step out on their own ... Women tended to be skilled stitchers and pattern designers before they joined their groups....

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Holiday Book Reviews

Focus Daily News 17 Nov 2018

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Ars Lyrica Delivers a Magnificent Production of Handel's Agrippina

Houston Press 17 Nov 2018

Ars Lyrica Delivers a Magnificent Production of Handel's Agrippina. D. L. Groover . November 17, 2018 ... The show has style, wit, glorious singing, elegant design ... Directed by Tara Faircloth, ably abetted by costumer Macy Lyne and lighting designer Frank Vela (there's no set designer listed in the program), the show is chic and full of pop and awe ... X ... ....

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Rick and Morty will be dropped from Netflix in a matter of days – this is not a drill

Metro UK 17 Nov 2018

There’s only a few days left of Rick and Morty on Netflix (Picture. Adult Swim). Rick and Morty fans, make sure you get your fix as soon as you can this week because the trippy animation is going to be pulled from Netflix in just four days ... More. Netflix ... House of Cards season 6. Costume designer takes us inside Claire Underwood's makeover ... Advertisement....

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What a glorious feeling: The 31 best dance scenes in movies

News & Record 17 Nov 2018

mastery of technique, imaginative choreography, quality of the music — this is very important — and design and storytelling ... Their dances are artistic, emotional and inventive; the music is superb (Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin); the costuming and set design create a stylistic whole....

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House of Cards season 6: Costume designer takes us inside Claire Underwood’s makeover after Frank’s death

Metro UK 16 Nov 2018

Metro.co.uk caught up with costume designer Jessica Wenger, who revealed all the details the Netflix show’s audience may have missed, from the change in colour palette, right down to Claire’s signature cufflinks ... There are subtle design choices made from the wall colour to the furniture so Claire took control in every scene.’ Advertisement....