Costume shop

The National Theatre's costume and props hire department in Kennington, London, is home to over 85,000 items. Here's a selection of images

The 71,000 square-foot building expands the festival's production of sets and props and costume storage.

Source “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” ~ Mark Twain One of the most fun things about working on a show is trying on your costume for the first time. …

Founded by Morris Angel as a second-hand clothing shop near Covent Garden, Angels the costumiers has won Oscars for films including Gladiator, Gandhi and, most recently, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

As a novice reviewer of Bay Area theater in the late '60s, I probably dropped in on Berkeley Rep for the first time in early 1969, possibly to cover its production of Brendan Behan's The Hostage.

The backstage area can quickly become a veritable tornado of costume chaos with big casts. I’ve been there; the biggest production I’ve directed so far was The Wedding Singer last year,…

Vintage walk-inSusan Koger, co-founder and chief creative officer of ModCloth ( www.modcloth.com), which sells clothing with a vintage flair, says her company "owes its start to a crammed closet." Paladini bought art especially for the closet rendering it both glittery and intriguing - a feathered skirt and sequined tops hang beside antique stone hands and a collection of silver African bracelets. Custom-made acrylic shelves (materials from Ace Hardware) hold her shoes, which have has the…

Performance costume, 'Harp Lady', fabric/polystyrene/fibreglass, designed by Norma Moriceau, made by the Ceremonies Costume Department, used in Opening Ceremony of Olympic Games, Sydney, 2000

Founded by Morris Angel as a second-hand clothing shop near Covent Garden, Angels the costumiers has won Oscars for films including Gladiator, Gandhi and, most recently, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

His costumes have shimmied across the stages of 71 Broadway productions, including Hairspray, Chicago, and The Producers. But this October, with his work appearing on Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show remake, it’s not the Broadway stage he’s after—it’s the world one.