COSTUME DESIGN FOR FILM

This unique, professional costume design workshop is designed for individuals with a passion for Costume Design, Fashion, Design and filmmaking in general. It provides you with a very unique opportunity to gain first hand Costume Design experience under Letizia’s expert guidance.

“Costume Design…  dreaming with open eyes to imagine and give life to new characters and storiesLetizia Serio
APPLY NOW
What’s on offer

The workshop is fast, intensive and absorbing. Our key goal is to give students the tools, the mindset and the support they need to work in the real world. By the end of the workshop, students will have evolved professionally, worked with an industry leader, have professional costume design experience and footage for their portfolio/ showreel.

Italian Costume Designer Letizia Serio leads this 5 day workshop on the Art and Craft of Costume Design. The workshop is designed for fashion students, designers and cinema professionals who wish to gain insight into the world of Costume Design, specifically for film.

“Through out many feature films, Letizia has brought to life characters I could only imagine in my mind”.Yolanda Torres
Letizia Serio Costume Designer
About the instructor?

From Southern Itlay, with a degree in Fashion Design and trained in Milano, Letizia, now based in Stockholm, has joined the film industry after first exploring a career in Fashion. She’s collaborated on many afilm projects, including the feature film projects The Odd Perspective, The Anarchist’s Dream, Awakening: A Mermaid’s Tale, The Internationalist and 3 Billion.

What will you get out of it?
  • You will learn to conceptualize and reenforcing each character’s personality though Costume Design, for cinema, advertising and television.
  • You will learn a brief introduction to the History of Fashion.
  • You will learn how to analyze each character, prepare a breakdown
  • You will organize communication/ collaboration with the project’s director and production designer.
  • During the workshop, you will apply the theory learned in the shooting of a Fashion Motion Editorial (a short film exploring a fashion brand), where students will be asked to prepare characters with their costume codes, moodboards and communication files for other departments.
afilm feature film The Anarchist's Dream swith Lucia Saavedra
What will you be doing?
  • Visit to the Fashion Museum in Barcelona, History of Fashion tour
  • Screening and Analysing an exemplary film through Costume Design
  • Fashion Motion Editorial FME project presentation
  • 2 days preparation for the FME project, including development of characters/ personalities, moodboards and communication files
  • Exploring the tools of the trade
  • Shoot FME project
“Letizia is such a joy to work with, her ability to create the extraordinary from the ordinary, never ceases to amaze me- I can not imagine a film without her.”Yolanda Torres (UK)