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 Fernaz Khaki-Sadigh and Catherine Baumgardner.

Welcome Fernaz - Costume Designer for television series including Upload, Marvel’s Helstrom, The 100 and No Tomorrow, Van Helsing, and Avatar: The Last Airbender

Topics Include:

Growing up in TV in Iran

MBA degree mixed with the BFA Design degree

Marketing yourself as a designer

Avatar: Last Airbender TV Show

Getting the dream job

Interview process

Getting the “phone call”

Actual design changes

Example costume in a character arc

Mixing time period, culture, and fantasy

Preproduction testing

90 person costume crew

Overcoming self-doubt

Importance of Stepping away

Inspired by female samurai warriors

Advice for beginning designers

Personal wardrobe story

Bucket list jobs

Favorite movie to rewatch

and more!