Costume Design

Top 10 Costume Designers:

Sandy Powell Lindy Hemming Collen Atwood Theoni Alredge Jenny Beaven

Alexandra Byrne James Acheson Edith Head Sharen Davis Cecil Beaton

What is the job of a costume designer? Costume designers

create the look of each character by designing clothes and accessories the actors will wear in performance.

Costume Designer

Depending on their style and complexity, costumes may be made, bought, revamped out of existing stock or rented.

Film Costume Design:

Their designs need to faithfully reflect the personalities of the characters in the script.

The Costume Design Process

CreativeDesignTechnical

Creative Process:

Imagination Critical Thinking

Free Play

Design Process:

Innovation- the introduction of something new

Research- to investigate thoroughly

Function- the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or

used or for which a thing exist.

Technical Process:

Intention- what one intends to do or bring out.

Evaluation- to determine the significance, worth, or condition of use.

Quality- a degree of excellence

Price Point- a range of cost

Colleen Atwood “Alice and Wonderland”

-Costumes-

Sharen Davis “The Help” -Costumes-

Sharen Davis “Dream Girls” -Costumes-

Music & Entertainment:

Beyonce’s -Stage Costumes-

Costume Design Center:

Warner Bros. Studios maintains one of the largest collections of period and contemporary costumes for film, television, theater and commercial productions.

The Costume Design Center encompasses costume rentals, manufacturing, tailoring, design suites and prep cages.

The on-lot 60,000 square foot climate-controlled facility houses aisles of costume categorized by era, decade and style.

Categories Include, but are not limited to:

Contemporary Dance/Showgirl/Las

Vegas Ethnic Formal/Bridal Inuit

Occupational Period through

Modern Day Renaissance Sci-Fi Western/Frontier

The rental collection also feature racks of shoes, furs maintained in a cold storage and a vast array of accessories: jewelry, hats, belts, scarves, neckties and more.

Costumes are rented and sent to clients world wide.