Introduction
Though fashion designing is now a day gaining much
attention, importance and preference, one more profession which is more related
to fashion designing and having a vast scope but not that much gained attention
and preference is "Costume Designing".
The success of any movie or drama serial also depends on the
characters costume but the audiences are mainly interested only to know about
the actor, director, musician, lyricist, chromatographer or choreographer but
hardly anybody interested in to know about the costume designer.
The dynamic growth of entertainment media -Television, Cinema,
and technology etc., has lead to budding of number of TV channels and making of
increased number of movies either nationally or regionally. The TV channels have
to come up with more number of drama serials, programmes, shows in order to
attract more number of viewers. Every channel whether it is a kid channel,
sports channel, news channel or commercial, all have various programmes,
specialty shows, drama serials. all need a Right Costume rather to say a
good costume.
Costume Designing
Costume designing is an art of designing or choosing or
procuring a suitable/right costume-from dresses to accessories-to a
character/presenter in a play or movie or show.
An improper or wrong costume may lead to the vagueness in
the play or movie or show. So to take care of the right costume for the play or
movie or show, the responsibility is given to a separate person who is known as
Costume designer. So every play or movie or show needs a costume designer. It
is a challenging, interesting and cautious job which requires much more skills
when comparing to fashion designing. Though costume designing is much related
to fashion designing most of the fashion designing students are not much aware
of the profession of costume designing and the scope it provides. Now, costume
designing is mostly done by famous fashion designers or by the person who has
gained experience in this profession but very few qualified fashion designers do
costume designing.
Costume Designing Vs Fashion Designing
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Sr. No |
Costume Designing |
Fashion Designing |
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1
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Designing is done to the character or story
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Designing is done to ones own creativity and tastes or to
customers
|
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2
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More challenging and limited time frame
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Not much challenging and no limitation for time
|
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3
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Limitations to creativeness;
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No limitations to creativeness
|
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4
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Designs should match to the theme of the story or
character
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Designs should match to the trends.
|
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5
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Need for the knowledge of culture, history, places,
rituals, social values etc.,
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Not compulsory but it is an additional advantage.
|
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6
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Involves high cost
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Not much cost oriented
|
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7
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Limited assignment at a particular time
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No limitations; Depends on the capability of fashion
designer
|
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8
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At a given time need to design for various role,
characters, situations/locations etc.,
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Designing is done to a particular target customers.
|
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9
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Designs can be outsourced and copied
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Designs should be ones own creativity.
|
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10
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Need to interact with many people
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Not that much interaction is needed
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