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 Heather Pain and Catherine Baumgardner.

Welcome Heather Pain -  Costume Designer for film, television, theater and commercials. She has designed for tv shows such as: TED, Ghosts, Single Parents, and Melissa and Joey.

Topics Include:

What is success

Growing up

Exploring design at a competitive college 

Fashion Design vs Fashion Merchandising

Her mentors

Training Program

Advice for aspiring designers

Difficulty of period design

Difficulty of contemporary design

Designing TED

Finding the ‘missing piece’

Problem solving having Covid

Challenges of Ghosts

Reaching out to Jac West

Going towards your fears

Learning from failure

Stages of Enjoying the Design

Remembering 1990’s fashion

“Jean jacket queen”

Rapid fire questions!