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MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 37 work and my dance work that I get to implement in these costumes. I think everybody in our workroom at this point knows all of that, and they didn't have to be dancers, but it helps." Each season of DWTS has around 13 initial contestants with eliminations each week. However, the amount of costumes stays around the same as the remaining contestants are given additional performances. The DWTS team makes both the contestant and their dance partner's costumes. Each week, Costume Designers Steven Lee and Daniela Gschwendtner are in communication and collaboration with the producers, the professional dancers, and the stars. "By the time it gets to us, all of that's been hashed out. They work on it in advance so they can shop fabric for us on our days off and then by the time they've goen those materials, our paernmaker is cuing and geing everything ready for us and then we start sewing on our Monday, which is a Friday because we work through the weekend. We prey much know nothing until it's the week of. Effat Alahyari, our paernmaker, has been there for a very long time and has this down to a science now." With the paerns made and cut before Kendall and the rest of her team come in, they begin sewing right away to be ready for a fiing within the first aernoon. "We basically go from the first star on the fiing block, we try to get theirs done as quickly as possible. Then we move to the next one and the next one. We are very team-oriented, if I'm geing close Jenna Johnson on Oscar Night. (Insets) Back and front of costume. 37