Costume designer Robert Edmond Jones
(1887-1954) drawing at a waist high table (c. 1920).
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Costume designers will typically
seek to enhance a character's personality, and/or to create an evolving plot of
colour, changing social status or period through the visual design of garments
and other means of dressing, distorting and enhancing the body - within the
framework of the director's vision. At the same time, the designer must ensure
that the designs allow the actor to move in a manner consistent with the
historical period and enables the actor to execute the director's blocking of
the production without damage to the garments. Additional considerations
include the durability and washability of garments, particularly in extended
runs. The designer must work in consultation with not only the director, but
the set and lighting designers to ensure that the overall design of the
production works together. The designer needs to possess strong artistic
capabilities as well as a thorough knowledge of pattern development, draping,
drafting, textiles and costume/fashion history as well as awareness of poise
when in period dress, and be sensitive to the creative direction that the
performer wants to take his/her character
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