Voice Of Costume - Creating Character through Costume Design

The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.

Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Sarah Cogan and Catherine Baumgardner.

Topics Include:

Sarah Cogan starting out

18 1/2 independent film

$2000 budget for costumes

One woman show of the entire costume department

Huge importance of a set costumer

Impact of not having a set costumer on set

Owning her own costume rental house

Hack for numerous background on a low budget

Organization, Systems and Deadlines

Oscar shortlisted short “Bienvenidos a Los Angeles”

Her podcast on costumes

The workshops she host for growing costume designers and filmmakers

World building

Inherent conflict in the costumes in world building

Definition of Success

Filmmaking is ultimately a “Service Business”

Sarah’s Screenplay reading Hack

Life by Intention

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. Please comment and leave a 5-star review to help get the voices of these Costume Designers into the world.

Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Antoinette Messam and Catherine Baumgardner.

Topics Include:

Influence of parents and grandparents

Jamaican childhood

Inspired by the outdoors

Starting as a model

Journey from Modeling to Styling to Buyer for Film to Designer

First show “Catwalk”

Moment she knew Costume Design was the destination

Realization of too many things going in life

Doing your homework to get the job

The importance of the message of Book of Clarence

Research for 1st century production

Directing the color palette you have available

Actor Feedback for contemporary vs period costumes

Challenges of communication between different countries

Working on two films

Being a parent on a film set

Needed mindset shift to take from the work day to home life

Advice for her younger self

Plus Deep Dive and Rapid Fire Questions!

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.

Listen in on this inspirational, one-on-one conversation between Jennifer Starzyk and Catherine Baumgardner.

Topics Include:

Growing up with a fashion conscious mom

College journey and internships

First costume credit and sleeping in Pioneer Town

Working and Learning from many mentors

Bringing joy to set everyday

THE IRON CLAW

Making costumes from scratch

Designing for real people in the 1980’s

Symbolism in the character’s belts

Surprise impact of the Iron Claw story

Hard lesson learned in life

Why you should tell others your goals/dreams

Genre wish to design for someday

Movie that inspired Jennifer

Advice for others

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.

Listen in on this fun, one-on-one conversation between Ellen Mirojnick and Catherine Baumgardner.

Topics Include:

Painting at 3 years old

Art school at 5 years of age

Leaping from fashion to film

Memorable film experiences:Fatal Attraction,Wall Street,Chaplin

Seeing the story first

Her focus on 'contemporary design'

Creating history versus interpreting history

The rise of costume designers in the press

Having a ‘classical eye’

First Meeting with Christopher Nolan

Steven Soderbergh reigniting her love for costume design

How to handle big meetings

Solving the problems of the job

Creating the design for Oppenheimer

Tackling the limitation of ‘no hats’

Making a “fat free” film

Working with Chris Nolan is like being on a super bowl winning team

Costume details when shooting in IMAX

The importance of the silhouette

Costume ‘arc’ of Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer’s personally created signature look

Ellen’s definition of ‘success’
Ellen’s motivation to keep going
Letting creativity soar
The Inspiration of museums

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.

Listen in on this fun, one-on-one conversation between Giovanni Lipari and Catherine Baumgardner.

Topics Include:

Growing up feeling restricted, leading to creative escapism

Supportive parents in pursuing creativity

His path into fashion industry

Fashion industry vs costume design

The beauty of history vs modern design

Modern twist on historical time periods

Staying faithful to the time period "shape"

Transitioning a show to another costume designer

Collaborating with another designer

The creative process never stops

Bringing items on trips that make you feel at home

Plus rapid fire questions:
Favorite Book
Hopeful Time Period to Design
Top places to visit in the world
Craziest thing ever done
Projects on the horizon

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.

Listen in on this fun, one-on-one conversation between Oliver Garcia and Catherine Baumgardner.

Topics include:

Growing up in Canary Islands

His brothers’ influence on his creative journey

Sandy Powell’s influence and mentorship

Pitching to get the job on "Chevalier"

Designing and prepping a period film in 4 weeks

Using color for theme and character

Removing dripping wax from a costume

Motivated by failure

Who to surround yourself with

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.

Listen in on this fun, one-on-one conversation between Megan Gray and Catherine Baumgardner about Megan's latest project as the Costume Designer on the FX show "Murder at the End of the World".

She shares the lessons of filming in Iceland weather and the creativity used within a restricted color palette. Megan shares what she learned from large productions like Matrix Resurrections and DC's Birds Of Prey.

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.

Listen in on this encouraging, one-on-one conversation between Valerie Klarich and Catherine Baumgardner about Valerie's beginnings on Gossip Girl and Saturday Night Live to her latest project as the Costume Designer on the movie "Dicks: The Musical".

Valerie shares a very insightful day-by-day breakdown for the frenetic process on SNL for the wardrobe department. Also, hear her inspirational thoughts on crowdsourcing your process to find the best ideas.

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.

Listen in on this enlightening, one-on-one conversation between red carpet designer, Shekhar Rahate, and Catherine Baumgardner about Shekhar's surprising journey from photographer to run way model to designer. Check out his streaming TV show "Red Carpet Ready" showing the process to create a gown for the red carpet.

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The “Voice of Costume” is the first podcast created between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design.

Listen in on this enlightening, one-on-one conversation between Trish Summerville and Catherine Baumgardner about Trish's process for design, managing her team, and reflecting on her journey in filmmaking.

Hear what Trish called, "Hoop It Out" to help herself and her team deal with stress during production!

An inspiring conversation. One not to be missed.

Do watch Trish's latest work "Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" and Trish's Oscar nominated work for "Mank"

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***LISTENER DISCRETION NOTE: Some explicit language used near end of episode but words are "silenced out"****