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How Do You Become a Costume Designer?

For so many who pursue a career in design, it's the memories of watching glamorously decorated films and television shows and ...
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Q&A: Costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis talks career, impact of work

This post was updated Jan. 16 at 8:58 p.m. Piece by piece, Deborah Nadoolman Landis is curating culture through cloth. From designing the costumes for iconic films such as “National Lampoon’s Animal ...
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How Costume Designer Paul Tazewell Worked Magic With the ‘Wicked’ Wardrobe

Since 1939, onscreen witch attire has taken its cues from the Wicked Witch of the West’s all-black aesthetic in “The Wizard of Oz,” designed by legendary old-Hollywood costumer Adrian. Nearly 90 years ...
Los Angeles Times

How do you create 200 costumes a week? ‘SNL’ designer Tom Broecker takes us behind the scenes

NEW YORK — The first thing you are likely to wonder about Tom Broecker, who has spent more than 30 years as the costume designer at “Saturday Night Live,” is whether he ever sleeps. Indeed, he does — ...

Scary Good: How Hollywood's Most Talented Costume Designers Bring Horror Films to Life

The show will celebrate the rich conversation between film and fashion, while featuring the work of renowned Hollywood ...
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'TLOU' Designer Teaches Us How to Find a Character in Costume Design

Gamers are liable to get attached to their favorite characters, down to their wardrobe. In the case of The Last of Us, fans expect to see young protagonist Ellie in her iconic Chucks and Joel in homey ...
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Lyle Marley builds theatrical worlds through costume design

For one Bruin, world-building through costume design is an essential form of storytelling. Lyle Marley, a fourth-year theater student and costume designer, said developing costumes allows him to ...
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Costume Designer Antoinette Messam On Her Pioneering Career In Fashion

Arbiters Of Style: Trailblazers In Fashion is a new series that pinpoints innovative and established leaders in the fashion world, spotlighting their contributions to sustainability, technology, ...
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Why Holly Pierson’s ‘Oh, Mary!’ Costumes Will Have You in Stitches

Early in her career, Holly Pierson mostly designed costumes for historical reenactment projects. But it was a contemporary TV series that led her to creating the look for Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh, ...
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'Wicked' costume designer on his Oscar-nominated work

“Wicked” is the latest version of an enduring American fairy tale. Among its 10 Oscar nominations, one is for costume designer Paul Tazewell. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown starts our ...
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Costume Designer Paul Tazewell on Winning a Tony and Oscar Within Months: ‘This Black, Queer Little Boy in Akron, Ohio Had No Idea He Would Have the Year That He Had’

Costume designer Paul Tazewell won a Tony Award for his work on the Broadway musical “Death Becomes Her.” Tazewell, who worked on the film version of “Wicked, made Oscar history earlier this year as ...