Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
Find out more about training to become a Costume professional for stage and screen from our students and tutors.
Students on the Costume pathway of the BA Production Arts at Guildhall School gain a broad based understanding of all aspects of the costume industry. This unique pathway will enable you to follow the costume process from design to realisation.
As a Costume student, you will:
- Explore a broad range of relevant skills including costume design, construction, alterations, dyeing, ageing and distressing; fabric sampling, styling; costume fittings, dressing, and running wardrobe; costume sourcing, hiring and buying; costing, budgeting and administration
- Work alongside professional costume designers and supervisors, and learn costume craft on fully staged projects and productions
- Undertake a Costume for Design Project
- Have the opportunity to enhance areas of costume practice on placements, making projects and realised productions
- Research the history and culture of fashion
- Focus on practice for costume industry employment
Find out more about Costume at Guildhall at: gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts/programmes/ba_hons_production_arts/costume_pathway
Production and backstage images by Mihaela Bodlovic, Helen Murray, David Monteith-Hodge and Matthew Ferguson (FG Studios)
Find out more about training to become a Costume professional for stage and screen from our students and tutors.
Students on the Costume pathway of the BA Production Arts at Guildhall School gain a broad based understanding of all aspects of the costume industry. This unique pathway will enable you to follow the costume process from design to realisation.
As a Costume student, you will:
- Explore a broad range of relevant skills including costume design, construction, alterations, dyeing, ageing and distressing; fabric sampling, styling; costume fittings, dressing, and running wardrobe; costume sourcing, hiring and buying; costing, budgeting and administration
- Work alongside professional costume designers and supervisors, and learn costume craft on fully staged projects and productions
- Undertake a Costume for Design Project
- Have the opportunity to enhance areas of costume practice on placements, making projects and realised productions
- Research the history and culture of fashion
- Focus on practice for costume industry employment
Find out more about Costume at Guildhall at: gsmd.ac.uk/production_arts/programmes/ba_hons_production_arts/costume_pathway
Production and backstage images by Mihaela Bodlovic, Helen Murray, David Monteith-Hodge and Matthew Ferguson (FG Studios)
