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Design, Make and Manage for the Stage and Screen
Series: Creative Careers
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Whether your ambition is to work in design, making, styling, illustration, textile arts or supervision, Get Into Costume will help you bridge the gap from education into that vital first job in the industry and become a sought-after member of the costume team. You'll learn the...
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Whether your ambition is to work in design, making, styling, illustration, textile arts or supervision, Get Into Costume will help you bridge the gap from education into that vital first job in the industry and become a sought-after member of the costume team.
You'll learn the essential 'tricks of the trade' from some of the most influential costume professionals working today, including Sandy Powell OBE (Shakespeare in Love; Mary Poppins Returns; The Favourite), Jenny Beavan OBE, RDI (The Choral; Cruella; Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), Zaldy Goco (RuPaulβs Drag Race; Cirque du Soleil; The Little Mermaid) and Tahra Zafar (Paddington The Musical; Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens).
There's also first-hand advice on collaborating with directors, producers and performers to help bring their vision to life and tell the story through the language of costumes and clothes. Youβll also learn about breaking down a script to establish not just what a character should wear but how and why they wear it.
With the collective insight of costume designer Vin Burnham and her fellow international costume professionals, you'll be armed and ready to enter the industry with a full understanding of how things work in practice, the many career paths available to you β and what it takes to succeed.
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Get Into Costume
Whether your ambition is to work in design, making, styling, illustration, textile arts or supervision, Get Into Costume will help you bridge the gap from education into that vital first job in the industry and become a sought-after member of the costume team. You'll learn the essential 'tricks of the trade' from some of the most influential costume professionals working...Paperback$7899Unit price /UnavailableOut 26 Nov 2026Pre-order
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ISBN: 9781350297623
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustration: 200 colour illus
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 208.0mm
Height: 268.0mm
Weight: 1240g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Vin Burnham is a costume designer, celebrity stylist, author and speaker. She began her career at the Royal Opera House as a costume maker, before moving into film and TV; heading-up the making of the Bat Suits for the Tim Burton Batman movies, designing Lady Gagaβs βLiving Dressβ and Aslan the lion in the BBCβs adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia.
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