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Bringing ideas to life: the design -- Creating the silhouette: the costume workroom -- Defining the character: the textile studio -- Adornment and form: costume props -- Hunting and gathering: costume supervision and buying -- In performance: the running wardrobe and dressing -- Return to the spotlight: costume hire and stock.

The National Theatre's Costume department is one of the theatre's largest departments. Their skilled practitioners work in a number of areas including tailoring, dyeing, costume props, costume production and maintenance to produce over 10,000 costume elements every year, transforming a designer's vision for a production into vibrant reality. Accompanying the National Theatre's showcase Costume exhibition from October 2019 to June 2020, Costume at the National Theatre is a lavish large-format photographic book featuring the extraordinary work of the Costume department, that will appeal to fans of theatre, costume and fashion.