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Costuming for Film
The Art and The Craft
Holly Cole and Kistin Burke, 576
pages, 81/2 x 11, Iilustrated (B&W plus 12 page COLOR section),
Index, ISBN: 1-879505-80-0, $49.95, paper
"Costuming for
Film is a really invaluable tool for anyone entering or maintaining
their position in the world of costume design. It should be required
reading for anyone interested in the art of costume design. Ruth
Meyers, Emmy Award-winning Costume Designer, of Carnivāle, The Four
Feathers, L.A. Confidential
I only wish the book had been available 18 years ago when I was
flailing about, always learning the hard way." Lizzy Gardiner, Academy
Award-winning Costume Designer, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Mission Impossible II
"Burke and Cole have assembled the first-ever complete text on the
process of costume design for the movies from script to screen. . . .
This wonderful volume shows exactly how we do it."
Dr. Deborah Landis,
Costume Designer, Coming to America, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and President of The Costume Designers Guild, Local 892
Costuming for Film is a massive (632 pages), illustrated guide that
covers everything one needs to know to get started and work
successfully in film costuming.
It covers such important artistic matters as telling a story through
costumes, visual harmony and contrast, creating focus through color,
expressing emotion through line and shape and texture.
It also covers such essential practical matters as looking for work,
the roles played by members of the costume/wardrobe department, union
membership and regulations, duties on and off the set, costume
craftwork, script breakdown, budgets, organizing and running a wardrobe
department, designing for specific actors, fittings, deadlines, and
much more.
Holly Cole is a USA/IASTSE Local 829 Costume Designer and an associate
professor of costume design at Ohio University. She has worked as a
costume designer at the Chelsea Theater Center, the Lincoln Center
Institute, the Steppenwolf Theater, the Folger Theater, the Cincinnatti
Playhouse, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare
Festival, Virginia Museum Theater and Ringling Brothers Barnum and
Bailey Circus. As a crafts artisan and costumer she has worked on film
and TV productions (including Going All the Way, starring Ben Affleck,
and the Showtime series Women), Broadway productions, work for the
Muppets, the Metropolitan Opera, Radio City Music Hall, the Arena
Stage, and the Juilliard School. Her work was exhibited at World Stage
Design in 2005, and she won the 1993 Denver Critics Circle Award and
the 1982 Helen Hayes Award.
Kristin Burke has been the Costume Designer for dozens of independent
features, including Running Scared, The Big Empty, starring Jon
Favreau, The Cooler, starring William H. Macy, The Slaughter Rule, Bring It on Again, Race to Space, starring James Woods, Casper: A
Spirited Beginning, starring Steve Guttenberg, and Star Maps. She has
also designed costumes for music videos, commercials, and television
series. In addition to her work in film, Ms. Burke is an
internationally-exhibited artist, specializing in collage and mail art.
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