The “Voice of Costume” is an enlightening, one-on-one conversation between working costume designers sharing stories, inspiration, struggles, and insights into the creative career of costume design. 

Kelly Kwon has been designing costumes for almost two decades. Learning to be nimble and creative on several movies with Hallmark and many other shows, she now sinks her creative teeth into a dream project called "Quasi" about a hapless hunchback who yearns for love, but finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the king of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other. 

Listen in on her journey to find her creative spark in costume design and how she has flamed that into a long career doing what she loves. Hear how her travels around the world helped her designs with only a month of prep. Kelly shares specific, insightful stories of when things don't go as planned, you act fast with humility and get the job done!

Kelly's approach to her work, career, family and hobbies should be inspiring to anyone who listens. Enjoy!

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Elaine Montalvo started designing costumes for film and TV straight out of college. She shares how her attitude and work ethic in college created work for her immediately. Her career spans decades of films and tv shows including: Walking Dead, One True Loves, Blindspotting, Flamin' Hot, Big Time Rush and much much more.  Listen in to hear the design differences between an apocalyptic show like "Walking Dead" and a movie that spans years like "One True Loves". An episode with great insights about the problem solving every costume designer faces.  Elaine IMDB Follow @Elaine IG Follow @Voice Of Costume IG

Deborah L. Scott, has created an impressive tapestry of costume designs that include such beloved films as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, Legends of the Fall, Heat, The Patriot, Minority Report, Titanic, Avatar, Avatar: Way of Water and much more. 

Do not miss out on this Academy Award winning costume designer discuss her process, building practically for a digital world, overcoming creative blocks and a heartwarming story about E.T.’s bathrobe.

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Costume designer Justine Seymour's work can be seen in Netflix hit German-American drama miniseries Unorthodox — currently streaming on the platform — for which she was nominated for an Emmy and won the German TV Award Best Costume Designer 2020.

Host Catherine Baumgardner and Justine discuss her latest work on "Women of the Movement" and her process on that show and her creative journey.

Paul Tazewell joins VOC and shares his journey from growing up in Ohio to becoming a Tony Award winning Costume Designer for Hamilton: An American Musical

Ever wonder how characters in film and TV get their look? Join us as we talk to costume designers, directors, and actors on creating characters through costume. Hear behind-the-scene stories and personal advice from professionals in the field.

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Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland shares her journey of documenting the life of Cecil Beaton who is best known for his costume designs for My Fair Lady and Gigi. She shares with us the life of this inspiring artist, author, designer, and photographer.

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What is it like to run a costume department for a hit TV show like Modern Family? Eden Clark Coblenz shares what it takes to do costumes for scripted tv, working on Coen brothers films, and how to keep your department organized on set.

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Known for her role as Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gates McFadden joins us to discuss the role costumes have played for her as an actor, director, and choreographer. She shares life experiences, her unique journey abroad, and what advice she’d give herself.

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Academy Award winning Costume Designer Mark Bridges joins the show and tells us all about how he got started, who inspired his career, his creative process, and what he did with his jet ski.

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Salvador Perez joins us to talk about how he got started, the Mindy Project, working on 3 Pitch Perfect films, and being President of the Costume Designer's Guild.

Hear Salvador's advice on the conviction of your design work, how to go about joining the guild, and the importance of making your name synonymous with your designs.

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