CDG - The Costume Designer

SH: hat was your rst design ob RS: My rst actual ob designing was a show called he Donna Fargo show for a Nashille network She was a schoolteacher who had one famous country song and it became a big hit and they gae her a show and I designed it SH: ho most insired you when you were starting out as a designer RS: Easy Costume designer, Ret urner Ret took me under his wing from the day he met me and heled me hone my skills He always suorted me and called me out on things when I was wrong or ushing my agenda He ushed me out of the nest when he knew I was ready as he did with eery single erson he mentored If you asked costume designers in the industry around my age, I think youd nd about a third of them would say he was the erson that taught them the most Ret was my mentor, but of course, he was one of my closest friends SH: Inside or outside of costume design, is there somebody who insires you now RS: I admire my mother for her tenacity She cel- ebrated her th birthday in December I admire Hillary Clinton for her ability to roll with all the unches and come out the other end o be really oen about how crushing that was and how close she got to the residency I admire almost any woman out there in the working eld, because we still hae such a hard row to hoe SH: hat do you most enoy about costume designing RS: Aside from the oy of creating, I loed seeing something come to fruition from nothing but a thought in your head and the freedom to work or turn down obs if I wanted Although, I retty much worked nonsto my entire career Costume design was fresh, and eery day was di erent Eery ob was di erent here is no monotony or boredom in costume design hen I went into my osition at the Guild, I thought that would be a hard adustment Een though I was behind a desk, I soon found because I was working with costume designers that, it wasnt like working in a cororate o ce here was still so much creatiity in it and constant change SH: Do you hae a faorite word RS: Yes You know what it is I say it all the time SH: Ugh I must be sliing ait, is it, is it eidently RS: Eidently, yes SH: I remember your other word now aarently RS: Aarently and eidently Cousins of each other SH: hree bucket list things that you want to do, see, or eerience RS: I want to see the Northern Lights Number one, to of the list Net, trael more ienna, Austria holds this magical fascination for me Lastly, be more hysically actie, de nitely W t w r fi t job? Inside or outside of costume design, is there Inside or outside of costume design, is there somebody who insires you now somebody who insires you now I admire my mother for her tenacity She cel- I admire my mother for her tenacity She cel- ebrated her th birthday in December I admire ebrated her th birthday in December I admire Hillary Clinton for her ability to roll with all the unches Hillary Clinton for her ability to roll with all the unches and come out the other end o be really oen about and come out the other end o be really oen about how crushing that was and how close she got to the how crushing that was and how close she got to the residency I admire almost any woman out there in the residency I admire almost any woman out there in the working eld, because we still hae such a hard row to working eld, because we still hae such a hard row to hat do you most enoy about costume hat do you most enoy about costume Aside from the oy of creating, I loed seeing something come to fruition from nothing but a thought in your head and the freedom to work or turn down obs if I wanted Although, I retty much worked nonsto my entire career Costume design was fresh, RS: RS: I want to see the Northern Lights Number one, to I want to see the Northern Lights Number one, to I want to see the Northern Lights Number one, to of the list Net, trael more ienna, Austria holds this of the list Net, trael more ienna, Austria holds this of the list Net, trael more ienna, Austria holds this magical fascination for me Lastly, be more hysically magical fascination for me Lastly, be more hysically magical fascination for me Lastly, be more hysically actie, de nitely actie, de nitely 16 THE COSTUME DESIGNER | SPRING 2022

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