The Costume Designer's Toolkit av Holly Poe Durbin

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<P><EM>The Costume Designer''s Toolkit</EM> 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:</P><UL><LI>Assessing the scope of a production</LI><LI>Understanding design thinking and the creative process</LI><LI>Project management and budget forecasting</LI><LI>Collaborating with and leading creative teams</LI><LI>Current practices in costume rendering and communication</LI><LI>Mixing purchased, rented, stock, and built costumes to form a design</LI><LI>Designing a garment with impact</LI><LI>Fitting costume