The Costume Designer's Toolkit

The Costume Designer''s Toolkit explores the wide-ranging skills required to design costumes for live performance in theatre, dance, opera, and themed entertainment. Arranged in chronological order to create a design, each chapter describes tools, strategies, and techniques costume designers use to create lively and believable characters within a story environment. The book provides a step-by-step outline of the costume design process beginning with developing as an artist and creating an artistic vision for a script. It covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Assessing the scope of a production
• Understanding design thinking and the creative process
• Project management and budget forecasting
• Collaborating with and leading creative teams
• Current practices in costume rendering and communication
• Mixing purchased, rented, stock, and built costumes to form a design
• Designing a garment with impact
• Fitting costume