Costume Design

Joan Bakewell urges broadcasters to untangle 'moral muddle' — Joan Bakewell has called for broadcasters to adopt "a clear moral framework" to help them recover from the recent tide of taste and decency and trust scandals.Delivering the annual Hetherington Memorial Lecture, in honour of the former Guardian editor Alastair Hetherington in Edinburgh last night, Bakewell said the "recent Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand scandal demonstrates that a continuing moral crisis haunts the BBC" and branded it a "moral muddle".The veteran broadcaster and writer added that "Channel 4 and ITV too are having their own integrity questioned", as an "insidious falling away of moral integrity has crept into broadcasting to... [Tags: annual holidays, broadcasters, canteens, costume design, crunch]

Kate Cusack: Zipper Jewelry, Costume Design and Window Dressing — by Ezra Natalia For Kate Cusack, the New York-based jewelery designer, costumer and wig-maker, her iPod's shuffle setting is an apt metaphor for the ups and downs of her hectic lifestyle, “The shuffle bounces all over the place and reminds me of music I like, but don't always remember to choose. Sometimes the song transition nicely from one to the next for a while, but other times there is a streak of things I am not in the mood for.“ Kate is one of those lucky NYC creative types, cobbling a living from various related pursuits, for whom every day... [Tags: aesthetic appeal, apt metaphor, costume design, costumer, creative types]

Super-Garments — Riitta Ikonen uses costumes in her art: The artist in her own words: My work is concerned with the performance of images, through photography and costume design. Certain items, usually small and insignificant, excite me to the point where I have to wear them and then document that process. The super- garments I make open up new experiences. In my costumes tremendous things happen - to me and to the people I work with. Today I exploded an egg in the microwave. Next, I want to make an egg costume.... [Tags: costume design, costumes, egg, garments, images]