Get Into Costume: Design, Make and Manage for the Stage and Screen

By Vin Burnham

Book Overview

Whether your skills are in design, making, styling, illustration, textile arts or supervision - Get Into Costume helps you bridge the gap from costume education into that vital first job in the industry.
You'll learn from the highs and lows of some of the most influential costume professionals working today, including Sandy Powell OBE (Shakespeare in Love, Mary Poppins Returns and The Favourite), Jenny Beavan OBE (Mad Max: Fury Road, Cruella and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), Zaldy Goco (RuPaul's Drag Race, Cirque du Soleil and The Little Mermaid), as well as Dance Costume Maker Amanda Barrow. There's also hands-on advice about collaborating with directors and producers to help bring their vision to life as well as how to break down a script and storyline 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 the different career paths available to you - and what it takes to succeed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350301051
• ISBN13: 9781350301054
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.6"