Friday, April 26, 2019
Costume Design x3: Catherine Zuber, Emily Rebholz, and Kaye Voyce
The Interval: Costumes are important. Costumes help tell a story, locate the play for an audience, and help the actors to develop characters. The costume design field can vary widely in process from designing costumes that will be built from scratch to scavenging through vintage stores to find the perfect item, all while having to adapt to projects of varying budgets and scopes.
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I thought comments Emily Rebholz made about designing costumes for a contemporary show were very interesting. I had not thought about how contemporary clothing is well known in a way that makes everyone aware of the nuances in the clothes. Thus it become harder to design because more people can notice when something does not seem to fit in. I think it is also interesting to think about how contemporary clothes tend to be made to be more comfortable than period clothes, and so not as many loops need to be jumped through to get outfits to be comfortable and movable for performers. I also thought it was interesting that Catherine Zuber finds that the switch to LED fixtures has significantly changed and challenged the costume industry. I had never thought about how much that new lighting technology has affected other departments in terms of color and how color is perceived on stage.
I think it is interesting that none of the costume designers featured in this article actually grew up thinking they would be costumers, instead they thought they would be a lawyer, an artist, or a photographer. This is similar to a lot of articles I have read about featured/successful costume designers in the industry: it was never planned. This honestly concerns me because I have read very few articles about people that actually did plan for this career actually being successful. This often makes me scared and begin to second guess myself. I’m sure it just happens to be the articles that I am reading but still, it feels scary at times that maybe I’m trying too hard to go down a path that seems to happen naturally for the people it’s meant to happen to? I don’t know. I always thought that careful planning ahead was a good thing but I’m scared that I am going to be proven wrong when I graduate.
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