It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.
The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.
I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.
For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
Our fashion is for everyone and, throughout the years, we have had the possibility of working with the world's most beautiful and charming women and men. There is no person in particular who we would like to work with that we haven't already worked with.
Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.