Description
Newly revised and up to date, The Costume Designer’s Handbook is now more comprehensive than ever and is the backbone of any costume designer’s library since its original publication in 1983. Features of this new edition come with:
- a foreword by Arvin Brown, Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre
- guidance on the way to read and analyze a play
- plans for organising a dressing up plot
- insights into working with directors and different designers
- resources for doing historical analysis
- a discussion of the properties of color
- sketching, drawing, and drafting tactics
- an 8-page color insert
- 150 black-and-white footage, drawings, and charts
- a complete, up-to-date reference phase