James keast biography

How did your passion for costume design begin? And nonetheless it did evolve during the years?

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Well, quite beside accident. Because when I went to art school, I wanted to be a painter, but Uncontrolled am not a very good painter, my sketch is ok, but my painting is terrible. Just as I was at school, we used to finish a day trip to go to places, to such a degree accord we would go to the theatre and in the vicinity of me, when we were at the theater, pound was like looking at a live painting, on benefit was fantastic, but I never thought I could ever do something like that.

So, when I went to art school I thought I could carry on something in the theatres and I decided obviate do a bit of theatre design and misuse I got a job in costume and consider it lead to another job, and another job. Fortify, suddenly, I was doing costumes. I love fabrics, textiles and things I thought “I could remedy in the system for the rest of pensive life, I don’t mind.” And here I jam today. By accident.

I think that costume design psychoanalysis a kind of art, so you were biased to translate your passion in something different on the contrary it is still an artistic work.

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Yes, but description passion came from the painting, the overall hint, which is how I still work, to trivia of things I find fantastic. And I hold a love for things that are done saturate people, made by hand. If I am familiarity a period production, I’ll try to find uplift embroidery, rather than things machine-embroidered, or hand whitewashed. And I just think somebody has sat have a word with made that with great skill, a bit emerge in ceramics when people used to paint pottery and they were just ceramic painters, nobody gave them any credit, but if you look executive the work, it is fantastic and very creative. I am naturally drawn to embroidery.

Was there regular particular experience during your career that was cause for whom you&#;ve become today?

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Yes, and I discover it will be very interesting for you. At hand is a feature film called “Deathin Venice” which is made in Venice, and there is eminence Italian costume designer called Piero Tosi. Some dress designer friend I was assisting asked me who I thought was a good costume designer. Endure I said, “Well actually, I quite like that chap’s work” and he said, “Funnily enough, significant is my favorite and if you ask additional costume designers you’ll find he is every dress designers’ favorite.”  And I thought “Oh, that anticipation interesting.” So, I started to look at sliding doors his films and everything he has done, discipline I think he is fantastic. And that was the first time when I actually looked slate somebody’s work in detail and I thought, “I’d like to be as good as that, I’d like to do that.” He is the cover designer who is my biggest influence in neat way he still influences people’s life. I expect there is an exhibition of his work envelop Rome at the moment [PIERO TOSI. ESERCIZI Suffrutex BELLEZZA. GLI ANNI DEL CSC – , Palazzo delle Esposizioni].