How to be a Hollywood Costume Designer with Cynthia Summers

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This week I'm speaking to Costume Designer Cynthia Summers. Cynthia ia an Emmy Award Winning Costume Designer that has worked on massive shows like HBO's The Last of Us and the Netflix show Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events.
I talked to Cynthia about how she got into the industry, we talked about the logistics of how a costume designer works on a big production, she gave me her tips for being a costume designer and getting into the business and we talked about The Last of Us and Lemony Snicket.

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1. All about Cynthia and what we talked about (00:00:00)

2. Where did Cynthia train to be a Costume Designer? (00:00:54)

3. The reporting structure on set - who does the costume dept work with? (00:02:11)

4. Working as a freelancer - whats that like? (00:02:47)

5. Does work come from an agent or networking? (00:03:47)

6. Advice for pitch meetings (00:04:45)

7. Does Cynthia ever turn down projects after a pitch meeting? (00:07:05)

8. Lemony Snickets: A series of unfortunate events (00:08:28)

9. The Last of Us - bleak post apocalypse (00:10:50)

10. Does Cynthia always work with the same costume team? (00:15:14)

11. How do you get onto Cynthia's team? (00:17:09)

12. The dangers of AI with costume designers (00:22:14)

13. Is there an actor or character Cynthia loved designing for? (00:23:37)

14. What does Cynthia wish she'd known when she started? (00:26:34)

15. Cynthia favourite costume? (00:31:18)

16. If Cynthia could reboot our remake any film and do the costume design - what would it be? (00:34:49)

17. What is Cynthias motto? (00:36:14)

18. Reasons to subscribe (00:41:29)