Woven Threads: Conversations with Costume Designers

My fifth interview is with Howard Burden. Howard talks about how things have changed - and not necessarily in a good way - and the relationship with suppliers. Greatest hits:Red Dwarf (1989 - ongoing)The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999)Dead Gorgeous (2002)Colditz (2005)Whitechapel (2009)Robin Hood (2009)Dr Who (2012 - 2014)Jekyll and Hyde (2015)Home Fires (2016)Poldark (2017 - 2019)Worzel Gummidge (2019 - 2021)Young Wallander (2020 - 2022)The Last Kingdom (2022)

Janty Yates is the subject of my third interview. We talk about her long, and very fulfilling, working relationship with Ridley Scott.Greatest hits:Cracker (1993)The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)Jude (1996)Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Plunkett and Macleane (1999)Gladiator (2000)Hannibal (2001)Enemy at the Gates (2001)Charlotte Grey (2001)Kingdom of Heaven (2005)Miami Vice (2006)American Gangster (2007)Robin Hood (2010)Prometheus (2012)Exodos (2014)The Martian (2015)Alien: Covenant (2017)All the Money in the World (2017)House of Gucci (2021)Napoleon (2023)

Jane Petrie is the subject of my second interview. She talks about instinct and "doing your research", and we give a little history lesson about what the Costume world used to be like...Jane's Greatest Hits:28 Weeks Later (2007)Is Anybody There? (2008)Moon (2009)Fish Tank (2009)Harry Brown (2009)How I Live Now (2013)'71 (2014)Suffragette (2015)The Program (2015)War Machine (2017)The Crown (2017)Outlaw / King (2018)The King (2019)The Essex Serpent (2022)

Odile Dicks Mireaux is the subject of my first interview. Collaboration is what it's all about for her, and our discussion puts particular focus on the work she did on Chernobyl.Greatest Hits:Gormenghast (2000)Dirty Pretty Things (2002)The Lost Prince (2003)The Constant Gardener (2005)An Education (2009)One Day (2011)Bel Ami (2012)Brooklyn (2015)High Rise (2015)The Sense of an Ending (2017)Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)Chernobyl (2019)Last Night in Soho (2022)The Wonder (2022)See How The Run (2022)

This is a micro episode for those who don't work in the Film and TV industry, providing a little context for the interviews I've done

What does it mean to "work in Costume"?Here I explain why that's a question I want to answer...