Costume Design II

Catalog description

Furthering the exploration into the costume design process, this serves as a studio-based, hands-on experience, where learners gain a comprehensive knowledge of advanced research and construction techniques used to bring costume concepts to life. Costume design must consider many different variables including time period, environment, socioeconomic status, personality and much more in regard to bringing a character to life. Often costumes can be characters in their own right when it comes to the story telling of a given production. Designers and makers must employ techniques to create, embellish and fabricate in ways that help tell the character's story. Learners gain the knowledge necessary to create a base costume and then transform it visually with a consideration for materials that fall beyond the scope of traditional fashion. For example, the art of aging and using unconventional surface treatments could recreate historical embroidery, or that same technique could be used to achieve futuristic textile textures. Students create costumes for various genres and productions, with an emphasis on finishing details, structure and silhouette, as well as surface embellishments.