Costumes Designer Education

Newly revised and updated, The Costume Designer's Handbook is now more comprehensive than ever and is the backbone of any costume designer's library since its original publication in 1983. Features of this new edition include: a foreword by Arvin Brown, Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre guidance on how to read and analyze a play plans for establishing a costume plot insights into working with directors and other designers resources for doing historical research a discussion of t... [Read More]

Beginning with studio practices and safety rules, this information-packed handbook is appropriate for both newcomers and experienced dyers but assumes that readers have a serious interest in textile design. An overview of dyeing starts with fibers and fabrics and discusses all aspects of the dyes favored by textile studios--fiber reactive, acid, vat, and disperse--before explaining discharging, screen printing, monoprinting, stamping, stenciling, resist dyeing, devore, and painting. Would-be fab... [Read More]

PRO Fashion Sketchpad - All in one: Female Figure Poses & Accessories Design Outline Templates - is designed for Creative Professionals and Designers who are constantly searching for a perfect and efficient solution in personal design workflow, to help them achieve the best professional results when on a tight time schedule.  PRO Fashion Sketchpad will save your time and help you to deliver professional looking design sketches, all organized together.PRO Fashion Sketchpad will help you to incor... [Read More]

Excited to start your women's wear design project and willing to skip tedious figure drawing routine?Here is your solution:a figure sketchbook with all figures professionally designed,preprinted, ready for sketching and shaped specifically for women's wearfashion projects.What is in the sketchbook? Eight fashion figuresAll figure are 9 heads tall fashion design proportionsSingle (one per page) figures as well as groups of two and three figures per page arrangementsAll templates are on one side o... [Read More]

Recently, young women in Japan have taken to the idea of wearing kimono as everyday fashion, delighting in scouring secondhand kimono stores and their mothers’ closets for vintage pieces to bring their own wardrobes up to date. A testament to this trend is the success of Nanao, a quarterly magazine aimed at this younger market, and filled with stylish spreads and tips on dressing, finding great but inexpensive pieces, and customizing, accessorizing, and caring for these traditional garments.Th... [Read More]

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shirt, chances are college kids made it cool. The modern casual American wardrobe, Clemente argues, was born in the classrooms, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and gyms of universities and colleges across the country. As young people gained increasing social and cultural clout during the early twentieth century, their tastes transformed main... [Read More]

The beauty of these fanciful creations will take your breath away — and inspire you to bring the colors and textures of nature into your own home.Gorgeously photographed follow-up to Fairie-ality featuring dainty fairy furnishings and fashion inspired directly from nature.

Concerts, theatre, television, restaurants, rallies, the Olympics—there’s an element of stage lighting in most industries, environments, and events. And that means there’s a ton of work backstage for lighting professionals with the right education and training. But what’s a lighting professional? And how do you get a job as one? This quick read goes through what an artistic and/or technical career in lighting entails, both on a broad spectrum and on a day to day basis. Spoiler alert? It�... [Read More]

When you investigate what is best in class with regards to vocations among the more youthful era style planner is by all accounts a regular decision. This originates from the opportunity that more youthful eras have picked up in having the capacity to set what they need to wear. As a result of this, setting patterns as opposed to tailing them has turned into a standard. The life of a style planner is likewise one that is loaded with energy. You get the capacity to meet popular individuals and in... [Read More]

Bringing Shakespeare to the Sunshine State, this book gathers together a talented group of teachers, choreographers, directors, set designers, musicians, costumers, actors, and artists to discuss how they have adapted the bard's monologues in Miami, assassinated Julius Caesar on the steps of Tallahassee's Capitol, trained students to duel in Florida's Panhandle, placed Shylock on trial in Orlando, and transformed Gainesville into Puck's magical forest.This guide for teachers and lovers of litera... [Read More]