I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.
In productions such as 'Anna Bolena' and 'Rigoletto,' the costumes are tailored, and they're tight. In 'Moby,' it's like you're wearing pajamas, and you have more freedom. It's very comfortable on stage.
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'
A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.
But I've always loved the whole costuming part of acting.
I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.
I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.
The costumes had to serve the choreography.
I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.
The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.
My stormtrooper suit would chip underneath the armpits and in between the thighs. So they had to do a lot of editing for my costume and shave some areas down.
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.
Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.
The 'Game of Thrones' wardrobe department is so detail-oriented.
Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.
