Voice Of Costume - Creating Character through Costume Design Catherine Baumgardner - Costume Designer and Educator

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 Danya Pink and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Danya Pink -  Costume Designer for Crazy, Stupid, Love; Tenacious D, Bumblebee, Badboys for Life, HBO’s Lovecraft Country, And Netflix’s Road House
Topics Include:
Getting started in Costume
Tenancious D music video to film 
Working for $100/day
Realizing Clothing as Story Telling
Crazy,Stupid, Love
Steve Carrell
Roadhouse
Production Logistics
Action impacting Design
Selecting the pants
Making the shirts
Lovecraft Country Design Pitch
Connor with no pants
The jacket choice
Needing Multiples 
Pants that look good vs pants for action
Rapid Fire questions!

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 Katie Irish and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Katie Irish - This Designer began as an assistant designer for Broadway shows like: Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fences, Shrek then moved on to The Americans Series and the mini-series about Lincoln’s assassination, Manhunt on Apple+
Topics Include:
Raised with a pilot father
Theatre vs Scripted Tv
Swimming in a pool vs swimming in the ocean
Working while raising children
Assistant on Spiderman on Broadway
Working on the Americans
Manhunt - 
Surprising Colors of the period
Creating a pitch deck for characters
How to discuss budget with producers
Metaphors/Anchors in Manhunt
Stanton “Mars” as ‘the wolf’
Symbolism that helps ground a character
Flower symbolism in the period
Mary Todd Lincoln’s dress
Traits she wish she had
Words of wisdom
A top place to travel
A top costume movie
Genre wants to design for

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 Hannah Kittell and Catherine Baumgardner.
Welcome Hannah Kittell - Molli and Max in the Future’s costume designer stops by and talks creating futuristic looks on a tight budget
Topics Include:
Knowing at 3 years old she wanted to do costumes
Lavar Burton being the first realization
Geometry and History knowledge in costumes
Drafting Civil War reenactment uniforms
Getting into Independent film
Working right out of college
Importance small crew relationships vs big crew
Saving costumes for reshoots
Getting onto Molli and Max
Coming up with the look
Working with the director
In camera vfx affecting costumes
Preproduction 
Power of a good script
Bringing her daughter to set
 
Valuable lesson learned
Great costume house to visit in NYC
Movies to watch

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 Mandi Line and Catherine Baumgardner.
** Some language in this episode **

Welcome Mandi Line - Fellow Podcaster and Costume Designer stops by! She has designed Costumes for Greek, Pretty Little Liars, Shameless, Charmed, Hulu series: Death and Other Details. Be sure and check out her podcast Convos with Costume Designers!
Topics Include:
Growing up
Babysitter’s Dead inspiration
Death and Other Details
Getting Attached to the project
Working with multiple timelines & flashbacks
Mandy Patinkin
Why no Blue?
Replicating the Queen Mary
Shooting in Vancouver
The “unseen” hard work in DAOD
Her first Tattoo
Friend’s tv love
Tough lesson to learn
Redcarpet Dreams

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 Sarah Cogan and Catherine Baumgardner.
Topics Include:
Sarah Cogan starting out
18 1/2 independent film
$2000 budget for costumes
One woman show of the entire costume department
Huge importance of a set costumer
Impact of not having a set costumer on set
Owning her own costume rental house
Hack for numerous background on a low budget
Organization, Systems and Deadlines
Oscar shortlisted short “Bienvenidos a Los Angeles”
Her podcast on costumes
The workshops she host for growing costume designers and filmmakers
World building 
Inherent conflict in the costumes  in world building
Definition of Success
Filmmaking is ultimately a “Service Business”
Sarah’s Screenplay reading Hack
Life by Intention
 
Take Sarah’s online workshops here:
Sarahcogan/workshops 
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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 Antoinette Messam and Catherine Baumgardner.
Topics Include:
Influence of parents and grandparents
Jamaican childhood
Inspired by the outdoors
Starting as a model
Journey from Modeling to Styling to Buyer for Film to Designer
First show “Catwalk”
Moment she knew Costume Design was the destination
Realization of too many things going in life
Doing your homework to get the job
The importance of the message of Book of Clarence
Research for 1st century production
Directing the color palette you have available 
Actor Feedback for contemporary vs period costumes
Challenges of communication between different countries
Working on two films
Being a parent on a film set
Needed mindset shift to take from the work day to home life
Advice for her younger self
Plus Deep Dive and Rapid Fire Questions!
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