Portraying all the subjects, she weaves together sections of these exchanges onstage, briskly donning and doffing elements of costume, smoothly switching from a Texas drawl to a melodious African lilt as she embodies each man and woman with crisp efficiency.
"It is the hunt that is the most fun thing," says the director, referring both to the search for specific elements of costume or to the decision making involved in choosing pieces to invest in — which are often very costly — as symbolic of their time.
Some elements of costumes, such as period-appropriate shoes, will be easier and less expensive to purchase than to try to recreate them yourself.
Pinney, working on a slender budget, conjures those times with sharply whimsical elements of design (costume, sets, hairstyles, and graphics).
True, both men have plumbed the work of artists like Picasso and Kandinsky for inspiration, and Mr. Armani's evening clothes often contain elements of ethnic costume, as do Mr. Saint Laurent's.
Bruce comes back to Gotham and slowly assembles the elements of his costume, his vehicle, and his mode of operation — the kind of equipment fetishism that used to be tossed off in a few barbed exchanges between Sean Connery and Desmond Llewelyn's Q in the old Bond films.
It includes elements of traditional costume and procession that characterized the chiefdom.
More recently, last year, I took a diversion into the costume department of an exciting new sci-fi film where I was asked to supervise the digital build and production of 3D printed elements of the costumes.
Black is Darth Vader's signature color, and black clothing is a key element of the costume.
In fact, until recently, no Chinese woman with the slightest interest in fashion would have worn elements of her national costume unless she was attending in fancy dress.
Cirque du Soleil blends atmospheric elements of set design, costume and live music with stringed instruments to transport us to another time and place.
