Costume Construction
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Being a costume designer who can pattern and sew is a double-edged sword. When you can’t find the exact thing you need, you can always make it… but then, you always end up making the thing when you can’t find exactly what you need. I studied contemporary and period flat patterning and draping while working towards my MFA, and have had frequent occasion to keep those skills sharp since then.
1830s Wedding Dress, The Reckoning of Darkness, 2018
Inspiration - Early 1830s cotton dress
Inspiration - 1827-9 Wedding dress, Patterns of Fashion, Vol. 2, Janet Arnold
Chase Victoria as Elizabeth
Paul Fox as Victor, Chase Victoria as Elizabeth
1900s Walking Suit, Wicked Lit 2017
Inspiration - 1905 Walking suit
Inspiration - 1900 Walking suit, McCord Museum
Working out the puffed sleeve
Tosca Minotto as Mrs. Jane Bodman
1960s Sleeveless Dress, Marvelous Designer project
I wrote a piece covering Marvelous Designer for The Costume Designer Magazine (Summer 2017). To show the process, I reproduced one of Catherine Deneuve’s dresses from Les Parapluies de Cherbourg.
Stitching lines
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Vox Humana Theatre Co., 2007
