Costume Design for Performance offers a detailed insight into the creative process behind designing costumes for the performing arts, including theatre, opera,

Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent

This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical mani

Costumes designed and made for devised or physical drama, for contemporary circus or for dance, differ radically from the more traditional costume work produced

In The Art and Practice of Costume Design, a panel of seven designers offer a new multi-sided look at the current state and practice of theatrical costume desig