Budget: it's the topic nobody likes to talk about in the realm of costume design ( Read more... )

Now that Shrek: the Musical has opened on Broadway and images of many of the costumes are out there in stage shots in the press, i think--and especially since Threadbanger trucked through there with cameras recently--i can now share some of the "behind the scenes" photographs i took while working on it at Parsons-Meares, Ltd., in NYC this past ( Read more... )

First, some context which may seem self-centered, but is also relevant:

I've got a couple of really exciting gigs starting up in the next few days! I'll be working Saturdays doing millinery assistance at the Brooklyn studio of Cha-Cha's House of Ill Repute, helping produce their fall line of hats. I'll also be working at Parsons-Meares, one of the ( Read more... )

Wow, i haven't updated in a while. Things are *SUPER* busy with the biggest crafts show of the year (The Little Prince, full of masks, macropuppets, hats, parasols, you name it!), so there's a lot that's in process coming soon. Without airing the business of others, the misfortunes of funerals and surgeries have, when added to the prodigious ( Read more... )

This past weekend i had the good fortune to attend the William Ivey Long Costume Symposium held in conjunction with the Cameron Art Museum's retrospective exhibit on his work.

Because our program's Costume Director, Judy Adamson, is a longtime colleague of Mr. Long, the UNC-CH delegation was invited as his guests to a Sunday night dinner at Henry' ( Read more... )