Overview

Whether your ambition is to work in design, making, styling, illustration, textile arts or supervision – Get Into Costume will help you bridge the gap from education into that vital first job in the industry and become a sought-after member of the costume team. You'll learn the essential ‘tricks of the trade’ from some of the most influential costume professionals working today, including Sandy Powell OBE (Shakespeare in Love; Mary Poppins Returns; The Favourite), Jenny Beavan OBE, RDI (The Choral; Cruella; Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), Zaldy Goco (RuPaul’s Drag Race; Cirque du Soleil; The Little Mermaid) and Tahra Zafar (Paddington The Musical; Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens). There's also first-hand advice on collaborating with directors, producers and performers to help bring their vision to life and tell the story through the language of costumes and clothes. You’ll also learn about breaking down a script to establish not just what a character should wear but how and why they wear it. With the collective insight of costume designer Vin Burnham and her fellow international costume professionals, you'll be armed and ready to enter the industry with a full understanding of how things work in practice, the many career paths available to you – and what it takes to succeed.

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The most complete guide to the world of costume design ever put together in one book. -- Jenny Beavan OBE, RDI, three-time Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer  Vin has always been an alchemist and a magician. Now she rolls up her sleeves and shows us how the tricks are done, how the illusions are created. In doing so, she has created a new kind of magic, the magic of selflessly sharing this lifetime of knowledge and offering her secrets to new generations. -- James Acheson, three-time Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer Brilliantly researched and illustrated, this is a superb resource for costume design students and anyone interested in the artform. -- Keith Lodwick, Film and theatre costume design historian, former V&A Curator of Theatre and Screen Arts For anyone interested in the possibilities of professional costume careers, mapping an overview of practices through multiple perspectives. The author’s extensive expertise, in conversation with leading industry voices, captures the rich ecosystems that come together to dress performers’ bodies and the central role of costume in making performance. -- Donatella Barbieri, London College of Fashion, UK, author of 'Costume in Performance'

Vin has always been an alchemist and a magician. Now she rolls up her sleeves and shows us how the tricks are done, how the illusions are created. In doing so, she has created a new kind of magic, the magic of selflessly sharing this lifetime of knowledge and offering her secrets to new generations. -- James Acheson, three-time Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer

The most complete guide to the world of costume design ever put together in one book. -- Jenny Beavan OBE, RDI, three-time Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer  Vin has always been an alchemist and a magician. Now she rolls up her sleeves and shows us how the tricks are done, how the illusions are created. In doing so, she has created a new kind of magic, the magic of selflessly sharing this lifetime of knowledge and offering her secrets to new generations. -- James Acheson, three-time Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer

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Vin Burnham is a costume designer, celebrity stylist, author and speaker. She began her career at the Royal Opera House as a costume maker, before moving into film and TV; heading-up the making of the Bat Suits for the Tim Burton Batman movies, designing Lady Gaga’s ‘Living Dress’ and Aslan the lion in the BBC’s adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia.

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