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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. An behind-the-scenes podcast to showcase the voices of Costume Designers around the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Tom Broecker and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Tom - An Emmy-award winning costume designer. Working for Saturday Night Live since 1994. He also costume designed 30 Rock, House of Cards, The Comeback and multiple Broadway hits.
Topics Include:
First paid costume job
Juilliard School of Music
Hesitating going to SNL
The new Opera “Grounded”
“Creativity spawns Creativity”
Technology that helps
Process vs Results
Love of the theatre
“the true art of detachment”
The Christmas Carol example
Hunger Games sketch example
Pivot entire cast costume in 1 hour!
Deep Dive (min 20)
What do you like about yourself?
Any area too hard on yourself?
80% rule
Tough aspect of Contemporary
Let the joke lead the costume
Bob Mackie
The gift of the job
His favorite costume
Nostalgia dangers
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. An behind-the-scenes podcast to showcase the voices of Costume Designers around the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Safowa Bright Bitzelberger and Catherine Baumgardner.
Topics Include:
mmigrant doctor and nurse parents
Malta and African roots
Being shaped by being unique
Being adaptable and flexible
Artistic threads as a youth
Working in Apparel Design
Styling in the Music Business
Starting at the bottom
Having a good head on your shoulders
Mastering your craft at an indie level
Griselda (Min 16)
costume designer vs costume supervisor
A gift of a long prep time
Designing the arc of Griselda
Story of the Earrings
Difficulty of pivoting a head of department
Challenges of managerial logistics with supervisor
Challenges of creative opinions with designer
Defining Success
Finding a new balance
Consumed by the Craft
Favorite Rewatch Movie
Favorite place to visit
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. An behind-the-scenes podcast to showcase the voices of Costume Designers around the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Alayna Bell-Price and Catherine Baumgardner.
Topics Include:
Raised by a hard working, single mom
Desire to be different
Finding design in college
Dressing her great-grandmother
Great-grandmother inspiration
Columbia College
Styling for Athletes and Pageants
Month in LA college course
Internship out of that
A job and career launched
19-year old stylist
FIRST COSTUME JOB
Magic Mike XXL
The LA Grind
Trailer Costumer for Season 1
Encouraged to Assistant Design Season 2
Costume Design at 25 for Season 3
Process for keeping continuity accurate
Shooting the End First
911 real calls heightened
Jennifer Love Hewitt Wedding Dress Experience
Crying as a wedding dress litmus test
Great advice
Not “show friendship”
Don’t “shrink to fit because you feel you don’t belong”
Defining success
Keeping things light-hearted
Seize the opportunities
Favorite Movie
Favorite Genre
Favorite Places to Visit
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. An behind-the-scenes podcast to showcase the voices of Costume Designers around the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Anne Dixon and Catherine Baumgardner.
Please Welcome Anne - Anne’s design career includes designing for theatre, ballet, ice skating, opera, film, and television. A few of her film and series credits include: The Shrouds, The Marsh King’s Daughter, Falling, Lost Girl, Anne with an E, and The Dead Don’t Hurt (written and directed by Viggo Mortenson)
Topics Include:
Childhood with a father news producer
Making clothes for dolls and sister
First job at regional theatre
Traveling costuming theatre
Enjoying the adventure
Schooling in London
The apprenticeship that launched her
Following the inspiration
Only live once perspective
DEAD DONT HURT (min 15)
Getting the job
There’s no one path
Viggo - writer/director/composer
Creating from the music
Collaborating with Viggo
Research and Look Books
Clothes from the ‘First Nations’
Importance of ‘strong truth’ in the design
Lead Character Design Arc
Shades of Red for her arc
Challenges to overcome
Working in Durango, Mexico
DEEP DIVE:
Proud aspects of oneself
Commitment choices now
Favorite movie
Favorite place to visit
An inspirational creative book
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. An behind-the-scenes podcast to showcase the voices of Costume Designers around the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Annie Symons and Catherine Baumgardner.
Please Welcome Annie - Costume Designer for Worried About A Boy, Crimson Petal & the White, Great Expectations, The Hollow Crown, Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur, My Policeman and Mary and George
Topics Include:
Parents influence in the arts
Pilot dad who also painted and made super 8 films
Falling in love with costume room
Instant best friend with a costume designer
Starting at age 14 in stage
Deconstructing old wardrobe
Art School
Making clothes for bands in 80’s
Getting starting in music videos
Journey to TV and Film
Ideal Format - Indie Film
Fun of Researching Period
Mary and George Process
120 person department
Lightning sketches
Contemporary much more challenging
More voices in the room
Working with Actors
Solutions arriving in your sleep
Adding subtext in costumes
Great team of Mary and George
Learned about herself
Words of advice
What all should know about costumes
Favorite Movies
Favorite places to visit
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. An behind-the-scenes podcast to showcase the voices of Costume Designers around the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Loulou Bontemps and Catherine Baumgardner.
Please Welcome Loulou - Costume Designer for The Covenant, Operation Fortune, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Henry Cavill and Carry Elwes), and Netflix series The Gentlemen (created by Guy Ritchie)
Topics Include:
Mom running an antique shop and making her clothes
Dad encouraging her to sketch daily
Entry into costume design
First few jobs as a designer
First working with Guy Ritchie
Hard to transition from assistant to lead designer
PROCESS: creating with Guy Ritchie
The Gentlemen Netflix Series
Creating the silhouettes
The costumes reflecting the characters
American version of show idea!
The British ditto suit
PROCESS: The most expensive outfit - the “chicken suit” story
Elevating a scene into an iconic moment
An emotional moment enhanced w/costume
PROCESS: Creating the character in the first fitting
“How do you want to feel in it?”
The emotion of a look
PROCESS: How to read the script and research
Learning Sustainability
When your costumes impact brands
*Father’s words of wisdom*
Being Brave
Favorite Films to Rewatch
Favorite Places to Visit
Design Hacks
*Restyle your own closet
Accept your body shape
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. An behind-the-scenes podcast to showcase the voices of Costume Designers around the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Ann Foley and Catherine Baumgardner.
Please Welcome Ann - Costume Designer of The Spiderwick Chronicles, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Godzilla vs Kong, The Last of Us, Skyscraper, and Altered Carbon and the first four seasons of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
Topics Include:
Moving around as a child
First time on set in Georgia
Inspired by Julie Weiss
Moving to LA with $500
Personality as a child
Motivated by being scared
Altered Carbon
World Building
Talking Spiderwick (min 9)
Getting attached
The design team chemistry
Inspiration for design work
Working with the book authors
The color Red
Easter egg design finds in
Thimbletack Costume Design
Agents of Shield fanbase reaction to Costumes
Learning how to pivot
Just keep moving
Inspired by Michael Wilkinson for a solution
Spiderwick creature design
The pedal dress origins
Proud moment(s)
A real Thimbletack for fittings
Favorite Movies
Favorite places to visit
Pirates House
Chasing your dreams
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Michael Wilkinson and Catherine Baumgardner.
Please Welcome Michael - Costume Designer of Garden State, American Hustle, and Babel, Man of Steel, 300, Tron Legacy, Watchmen, Terminator Salvation, Twilight’s Breaking Dawn, Andor and sci-fi series 3 Body Problem
Topics Include:
Growing up in Sydney
A Dresser at the Opera
Going to a theatre school NIDA
A designer that has powerful impact on him
Constant communication of ideas
The actor - costume designer collaboration
A good challenge with lighting clothes on Tron
3 Body Problem - starting at zero
Mindset needed
3 Body Problem (min 16)
Diving In with “Science Realism”
Where do you begin?
The Magnitude of multiple worlds
The end product reaction
Panama Canal buzz
Creating a completely unique character
Going from small scale designer to large scale designer
Zack Snyder giving Michael that opportunity
300 experience
Working on American Hustle
David ORussell’s process
“Humanity”
How to choose projects
Being an influence
Favorite pair of shoes
Favorite movie to rewatch
Favorite place to visit
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Allyson Fanger and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Allyson - This fabulous costume designer is well known for her design work on Shrinking starring Harrison Ford, the Netflix series: Grace and Frankie starring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, and Apples Never Fall
TOPICS INCLUDE:
STARTING OUT:
Growing up in Minnesota
Aunt Molly and her bag of jewelry
Mom and her Vogue Magazines
Dad outfit
Travel influences
Undirected and exploring
Anthropology Degree influence
The beauty of India
Not knowing what to do with her life
The moment she knew what she should do with her life
Her first film
Her first mentor in costume design
Moving to LA
Learning all the positions
COMING BACK (min 13):
Taking a 7 year break to be a mom
Being very directed and purposeful
Doing a favor that propelled her back
Being a mom as a priority while working
GRACE & FRANKIE (min 19)
Grace inspired by her mom
Grace color palette and visual arc
Frankie as the converse to Grace
Frankie as colorful and chaotic
“What would Sharon Davis do?”
Taking more than one fitting to find it
Finding it with Lily Tomlin
SHRINKING (min 33)
Contrast colors for character mood
APPLES NEVER FALL (min 35)
Contrast color to create a focal point
Love designing families
Using Brands to define characters
Shop where the characters shop
Characters “closet shopping”
SPOILER - character arc reveal
Many brands of tennis capsule looks
Pickleball vs Tennis looks
‘Shapes of tennis looks’
Breakdown of the Final Scene Looks
Pajamas as a Final Look
Relating to being a mom
Fitting room with Sam Neill
PROCESS (min 56)
Finding real people
Staying goal oriented
Working in LA
Happiness as a costume designer
RAPID FIRE (min 68)
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Fernaz Khaki-Sadigh and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Fernaz - Costume Designer for television series including Upload, Marvel’s Helstrom, The 100 and No Tomorrow, Van Helsing, and Avatar: The Last Airbender
Topics Include:
Growing up in TV in Iran
MBA degree mixed with the BFA Design degree
Marketing yourself as a designer
Avatar: Last Airbender TV Show
Getting the dream job
Interview process
Getting the “phone call”
Actual design changes
Example costume in a character arc
Mixing time period, culture, and fantasy
Preproduction testing
90 person costume crew
Overcoming self-doubt
Importance of Stepping away
Inspired by female samurai warriors
Advice for beginning designers
Personal wardrobe story
Bucket list jobs
Favorite movie to rewatch
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Heather Pain and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Heather Pain - Costume Designer for film, television, theater and commercials. She has designed for tv shows such as: TED, Ghosts, Single Parents, and Melissa and Joey.
Topics Include:
What is success
Growing up
Exploring design at a competitive college
Fashion Design vs Fashion Merchandising
Her mentors
Training Program
Advice for aspiring designers
Difficulty of period design
Difficulty of contemporary design
Designing TED
Finding the ‘missing piece’
Problem solving having Covid
Challenges of Ghosts
Reaching out to Jac West
Going towards your fears
Learning from failure
Stages of Enjoying the Design
Remembering 1990’s fashion
“Jean jacket queen”
Rapid fire questions!
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Matthew Hemesath and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Matthew Hemesath - T his amazing designer worked as an assistant and associate designer on the John Wick franchise, costume designer for The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt (Series Finale Movie) and series Dr. Death, Boomerang, The First Lady, and Tina Fey’s Girls5Eva.
Topics Include:
One hit wonder or career
Working on John Wick
Growing up on a Dairy Farm
Turning from actor to designer
Older brother influence as designer
Shadowed another designer
Overcoming problems
Value of sketching ideas
Getting the job on Girls5Eva
Bold email to Tina Fey
Creating a storybook palette
Pushback from actors on designs
The life infused into theatre production
Breaking down a TV script
Keanu Reeves
John Wick
Recharging
Want to visit
Suggested place to visit
Favorite Comedy
Favorite Film
When things go wrong forces creativity
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Danya Pink and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Danya Pink - Costume Designer for Crazy, Stupid, Love; Tenacious D, Bumblebee, Badboys for Life, HBO’s Lovecraft Country, And Netflix’s Road House
Topics Include:
Getting started in Costume
Tenancious D music video to film
Working for $100/day
Realizing Clothing as Story Telling
Crazy,Stupid, Love
Steve Carrell
Roadhouse
Production Logistics
Action impacting Design
Selecting the pants
Making the shirts
Lovecraft Country Design Pitch
Connor with no pants
The jacket choice
Needing Multiples
Pants that look good vs pants for action
Rapid Fire questions!
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Katie Irish and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Katie Irish - This Designer began as an assistant designer for Broadway shows like: Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fences, Shrek then moved on to The Americans Series and the mini-series about Lincoln’s assassination, Manhunt on Apple+
Topics Include:
Raised with a pilot father
Theatre vs Scripted Tv
Swimming in a pool vs swimming in the ocean
Working while raising children
Assistant on Spiderman on Broadway
Working on the Americans
Manhunt -
Surprising Colors of the period
Creating a pitch deck for characters
How to discuss budget with producers
Metaphors/Anchors in Manhunt
Stanton “Mars” as ‘the wolf’
Symbolism that helps ground a character
Flower symbolism in the period
Mary Todd Lincoln’s dress
Traits she wish she had
Words of wisdom
A top place to travel
A top costume movie
Genre wants to design for
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Hannah Kittell and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Hannah Kittell - Molli and Max in the Future’s costume designer stops by and talks creating futuristic looks on a tight budget
Topics Include:
Knowing at 3 years old she wanted to do costumes
Lavar Burton being the first realization
Geometry and History knowledge in costumes
Drafting Civil War reenactment uniforms
Getting into Independent film
Working right out of college
Importance small crew relationships vs big crew
Saving costumes for reshoots
Getting onto Molli and Max
Coming up with the look
Working with the director
In camera vfx affecting costumes
Preproduction
Power of a good script
Bringing her daughter to set
Valuable lesson learned
Great costume house to visit in NYC
Movies to watch
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Mandi Line and Catherine Baumgardner.
** Some language in this episode **
Welcome Mandi Line - Fellow Podcaster and Costume Designer stops by! She has designed Costumes for Greek, Pretty Little Liars, Shameless, Charmed, Hulu series: Death and Other Details. Be sure and check out her podcast Convos with Costume Designers!Topics Include:
Growing up
Babysitter’s Dead inspiration
Death and Other Details
Getting Attached to the project
Working with multiple timelines & flashbacks
Mandy Patinkin
Why no Blue?
Replicating the Queen Mary
Shooting in Vancouver
The “unseen” hard work in DAOD
Her first Tattoo
Friend’s tv love
Tough lesson to learn
Redcarpet Dreams
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Sarah Cogan and Catherine Baumgardner.
Topics Include:
Sarah Cogan starting out
18 1/2 independent film
$2000 budget for costumes
One woman show of the entire costume department
Huge importance of a set costumer
Impact of not having a set costumer on set
Owning her own costume rental house
Hack for numerous background on a low budget
Organization, Systems and Deadlines
Oscar shortlisted short “Bienvenidos a Los Angeles”
Her podcast on costumes
The workshops she host for growing costume designers and filmmakers
World building
Inherent conflict in the costumes in world building
Definition of Success
Filmmaking is ultimately a “Service Business”
Sarah’s Screenplay reading Hack
Life by Intention
Take Sarah’s online workshops here:
Sarahcogan/workshops
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Antoinette Messam and Catherine Baumgardner.
Topics Include:
Influence of parents and grandparents
Jamaican childhood
Inspired by the outdoors
Starting as a model
Journey from Modeling to Styling to Buyer for Film to Designer
First show “Catwalk”
Moment she knew Costume Design was the destination
Realization of too many things going in life
Doing your homework to get the job
The importance of the message of Book of Clarence
Research for 1st century production
Directing the color palette you have available
Actor Feedback for contemporary vs period costumes
Challenges of communication between different countries
Working on two films
Being a parent on a film set
Needed mindset shift to take from the work day to home life
Advice for her younger self
Plus Deep Dive and Rapid Fire Questions!
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.
Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Jennifer Starzyk and Catherine Baumgardner.
Topics Include:
Growing up with a fashion conscious mom
College journey and internships
First costume credit and sleeping in Pioneer Town
Working and Learning from many mentors
Bringing joy to set everyday
THE IRON CLAW
Making costumes from scratch
Designing for real people in the 1980’s
Symbolism in the character’s belts
Surprise impact of the Iron Claw story
Hard lesson learned in life
Why you should tell others your goals/dreams
Genre wish to design for someday
Movie that inspired Jennifer
Advice for others
Jennifer's IMDB
Jennifer IG - @JenStarzyk
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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.
Listen in on this fun, one-on-one conversation between Ellen Mirojnick and Catherine Baumgardner.
Topics Include:
Painting at 3 years old
Art school at 5 years of age
Leaping from fashion to film
Memorable film experiences: Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, Chaplin
Seeing the story first
Her focus on 'contemporary design'
Creating history versus interpreting history
The rise of costume designers in the press
Having a ‘classical eye’
First Meeting with Christopher Nolan
Steven Soderbergh reigniting her love for costume design
How to handle big meetings
Solving the problems of the job
Creating the design for Oppenheimer
Tackling the limitation of ‘no hats’
Making a “fat free” film
Working with Chris Nolan is like being on a super bowl winning team
Costume details when shooting in IMAX
The importance of the silhouette
Costume ‘arc’ of Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer’s personally created signature look
Ellen’s definition of ‘success’
Ellen’s motivation to keep going
Letting creativity soar
The Inspiration of museumsEllen Mirojnick IMDB
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