And yet, without good costume and wardrobe designs films and TV series can fall flat on their faces. It’s time that costume design and costume designers get the credit they are due.
In Disney Editions' The Art Of Disney Costuming: Heroes, Villains, And Spaces Between, readers are introduced to the magical and fascinating world of costume design.
Did you know that the costumes seen in many of Disney’s animated movies were first designed as actual, real life costumes worn by performers? It was necessary for the animators to see how cloth and fabrics performed on a human figure to be able to duplicate the movement in animation.
Disney's various TV shows also required careful attention to costuming. After all where would Davy Crockett or the Mouskateers have been if they were dressed in plain street cloths?
Disney fashion and costume designers have turned out some of the most amazing outfit assemblies ever imaged for animation, TV and the movies.
Of the three movie costumes probably shine the brightest.
Just look at the amazing costumes of The Prates Of The Caribbean films, Mary Poppins, the various live action animation adaptations, Maleficent and dozens more.
With the addition of Marvel Comics movies and the Star Wars epic the need for superior costume design is a necessity. Disney costume designers deliver on all accounts.
This book is amazing. It’s a beautiful oversize hardback with gorgeous full-color costume photos.
The book givse credit to the incredibly talented people behind the designs as well as examining the films, the fabrics, and the fastidious attention to detail and fabulous creations once completed.
Inside the secrets of great designs are revealed along with fabric and material selection, designing the costumes for individual performers and the logistics of making a costume look and function and how it will look on the large or small screen.
Color selection, fabric textures, small details like buttons and latches, accessories, hats, gloves, boots and shoes and much more must be carefully coordinated and selected for maximum impact.
It’s truly amazing journey and examination of a craft that is unappreciated yet so vitally important for any film or TV project.
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