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Author: Madeline Taylor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.460kg
ISBN: 9781032556611
ISBN 10: 1032556617
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 23 June 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Taylor offers a compelling account of the work of costume technicians, revealing rich complexities. Integrating diverse theoretical approaches with Taylor’s deep professional knowledge, this book is both an important contribution to costume literature, and a template for reconceptualising many other ‘hidden’ disciplines of theatre."" Professor Nick Hunt, Rose Bruford College, UK ""Costumers at Work masterfully highlights the intricate, often overlooked art of costume making. Drawing from her extensive practice experience, the author reveals the collaborative, nuanced process behind costume production, honouring the unseen labour and creativity of costume professionals. This book is a vital read for anyone seeking to understand the true value of costume work."" Sofia Pantouvaki, Professor of Costume Design, Aalto University, Finland ""This is an excellent (and important) book that makes a welcome contribution to our understanding of the complex and nuanced costume realisation process. Its strength is in both the rigorous theoretical framework within which the research is situated, and the successful quantifying and analysing of ephemeral and subtle phenomena that are extremely difficult to measure."" Toni Bate, Course Leader, MA Costume Design & Making, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, UK
Author Information
Madeline Taylor is both a creator and researcher of costume. A lecturer in Fashion at the Queensland University of Technology, her research focuses on contemporary costume practice, social engagement using clothing, and community-led circularity practices. This draws on two decades of experience in costuming for theatre, dance, opera, circus, contemporary performance, and film around Australia and the UK, and her creative practice as a co-director of Meanjin / Brisbane-based fashion and design group The Stitchery Collective. She has written about contemporary costume design, production and aesthetics, and alternative modes of engaging with, consuming, and displaying fashion and clothing in book chapters, conference proceedings and journal articles. These publications build on her diverse experience, including a 2010 research internship and working as Australian Editor for World Scenography Project Vol II – 1990–2005. She is Book Reviews Editor for the international peer-reviewed journal Studies in Costume and Performance (Intellect), a co-director of TextileR, a QUT research group focused on circularity in fashion practice, and a 2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow.
