costume designer
Noun
Meaning
someone who designs or supplies costumes (as for a play or masquerade)
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Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.
I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.
I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.