Actors often say they only really assume the identity of their character when they have donned the costumes painstakingly created for them by the costume designer. In this volume of the FilmCraft series of books, 16 of the world?s leading costume designers come together to share their inspiration and knowledge with the reader. They provide insights into the challenges of building a team, working with budgets, and collaboration with production designers, actors and directors. Designers featured include Academy Award winners Janty Yates, Jenny Beavan, Lindy Hemming and Yvonne Blake.
In this stunning follow-up to her acclaimed Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design, Landis tell the story of costume design from the birth of the movies to the present day—presenting the work of one hundred of the most provocative ...
In this volume of the FilmCraft series of books, sixteen of the world's leading costume designers come together to share their inspiration and knowledge with the reader.
This book introduces that art in the words of the people best-equip to explain it, as well as looking at the legacies of the great innovators of the past.
This book provides a real life, in depth look at big league studio costume departments with an eye toward explaining what's involved, including costume design theories, department operations and management, from supervision to set labor, ...
Deirdre Clancy is one of the most experienced and accomplished costume designers in the business. In this book, she gives her inside knowledge of designing for stage and screen, which includes television, film, theatre and opera.
Features the best costume designs from the past one hundred years of Hollywood films, showcasing the talents of such designers as Sandy Powell, Adrian, and Travis Banton.
In Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design, Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis showcases one hundred years of Hollywood's most tantalizing costumes and the characters they helped bring to life.
Whether they are working on films set in the reality of the contemporary era or a fantastic imaginary world, or one that requires historical accuracy, all costume designers approach their...
Beginning with a discussion of what is costume design, why do people wear clothes, and what is the role of the costume designer, this book makes accessible the art and practice of costume design.
"The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but traumatizing approaches to shopping and how the fashion-savvy perspectives of her ...