Costume Portfolio

This class will explore the skills that are needed to create a professional production. Frank Herbert’s novel Dune (1965) and the movie Dune: Part One (2021), will be used as a case study during the quarter. The class will focus on the film's design, research, and the integration of costume design into the production process. Script and character analysis, scholarly historical research, character design, collaboration, and visual communication will be reviewed in detail. A deconstruction of the design and production process is the centerpiece of this course. 2025 Copley Center Costume Designer-in-Residence Jacqueline West will join the class for one month to review student work and discuss her contribution to the movie. Each student will create 20 costume illustrations for the principal characters. This class will prepare students to think deeply about characterization and bring the people in the screenplay to life. Reviewing current production practices with our designer-in-residence will prepare each student for a career in costume design in film, television, and theater. Our ultimate goal is artistic excellence and meticulous design practice.

Costume design for A Turner Prize, written by Carl(os) Roa and directed by Velani Dibba for UCLA New Play Festival.

Logline: Co-written by Carl(os) Roa and ChatGPT, a Turner Prize is an exploration of what it means to be an artist under late-stage capitalism. The world is dying, but starving artist &rade only cares about one thing: winning the Turner Prize. Too bad they’re not even eligible. Meanwhile, the more successful Randie faces the scrutiny of dealing with white gallery owners, white art critics, and an artistic landscape that seeks to flatten her work. Jealous, desperate, and spiraling, &rade starts feeding Randie’s art into Zephyr: an AI service that distorts and reshapes art into something unrecognizable. a Turner Prize wrestles with the question: what is the impact of art under the backdrop of our mass extinction?

Costume design for Maktoub (2026), written and directed by Kunle Fasasi for UCLA 3rd year thesis project.

Logline: Ibrahim and Hawa, each having searched painstakingly for the right partner, must now either succumb to or overcome generational cultural prejudices In their quest for a blissful, loving union.

This class will explore the skills that are needed to create a professional production. John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) will be used as a case study during the quarter. The class will focus on the film's design, research, and the integration of costume design into the production process. Script and character analysis, scholarly historical research, character design, collaboration, and visual communication will be reviewed in detail. A deconstruction of the design and production process is the centerpiece of this course. 2025 Copley Center Costume Designer-in-Residence Arianne
Phillips will join the class for one month to review student work and discuss her contribution to Hedwig and the Angry Inch on screen and for the 2014 Broadway production.
Each student will create 20 costume illustrations for the principal characters. These designs will be inspired by historical research and the film's idiosyncratic style, which reflects the
vision of Filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell. This class will prepare students to think deeply about characterization and bringing the people in the screenplay to life. Reviewing current
production practices with our designer-in-residence will prepare each student for a career in costume design in film, television, and theater. Our ultimate goal is artistic excellence and meticulous design practice.

This class introduces costume design as a tool for interpreting renowned masterworks and as an intrinsic element of art history. Within the structure of the syllabus, costume designers will investigate four drawing-room plays by Oscar Wilde: Lady Windemere’ s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893),
An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Students will examine research materials at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and produce 10 sketches based on one of the four Wilde plays, informed by their historical research, accompanied by a mood board, a 350+ word Design Brief for one of Oscar Wilde’s plays. One costume design will be selected for construction at half-scale during Spring Quarter.