I loved getting my character together, coming home and rummaging around for a costume, doing research at the make-up counters in Selfridges.
Each costume was painstakingly researched, constructed, and adorned.
Thus, as much as fabric science is about possibilities for researching the costume, the costume itself becomes a tool for researching the body beyond as smart fabrics and wearable technology initiate what Balsamo (1995, p. 215) calls "new technologies of corporeality".
All the location scouting photos, all the research pictures, costume tests, correspondence with historical experts, Kubrick's script -everything'script -everything
His first production, Aleksey Tolstoy's Fyodor Ivanovich, which Stanislavsky had rehearsed on a country estate and designed on the basis of detailed research into costumes and historical settings, caused a sensation.
In researching the costume, Ms. Neilson said, she was able to confirm that the specific items of clothing and jewelry depicted were of the sort men in that era gave to women they loved — whether brides or mistresses.
That shouldn't be a problem for the eager consumer of Edwardian period detail: the show is stuffed with no doubt carefully researched costumes and décor, including reproductions of the original Selfridges interiors.
Mr. Daman, the costume designer, conducted his fashion research at private schools in Manhattan.
I was spending two days a week at a tailor's in London Bridge for my research when our costume designer, Jacqueline Durran, suggested I make Sid a 1940s suit myself.
