CDG - The Costume Designer

44 H M DG W our ears ago, acueline SaintAnne received a call from the renoned ashion Institute of Design Merchandising IDM asking her to become the Creative Director for ilm and Television Costume Design. I as deel honored, she sas. Its a satisfing solution to m longtime desire to infuse costume design education ith things I ish I had knon hen I started designing. Thus began a second act in costume design as an educator. Born in ostar anama, SaintAnne and her famil lived man laces throughout the nited States and Euroe. Like most kids, I loved cos tumes, articularl m Annie Oakle costume hich I imbued ith imagined oers of strength and rotection. hen m little sister as hurt in a car accident, I stood atch over her earing the oer of Annie Oakle. SaintAnnes memor of that costume as her insiration for iders in the Sk that later on her an Emm. She sent the SECOND Act B Bonnie iar Act Act Act Act Act Act Act Act Act Act greater art of her school ears in aris, shortl after the devastating e ects of orld ar II. I as fascinated b the earnings of arisians for beautiful visuals, she e lains. She elored hotograh, ditched school to go to the Louvre, and sketched designer clothes in uaint cafes. ithout training, I made atterns, bought fabric ith babsitting mone, and ore m coies of couture to aris American igh School. Throughout high school and college, SaintAnne stud ied remed, but she met an incredibl charismatic rofessor and folloed her straight into the theatre de artment and costume design. She earned a masters degree from the ing Theatre at the niversit of Mi ami. er credits as a costume designer include a stag gering 5 stage las, 1 lms, 13 television series, 53 movies of the eek, and 1 oeras. She also designed over 250 commercials that not onl aid the bills, but bought her rst house. She is resident Emeritus of the Costume Designers Guild, has on an Emm, the

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