Costume Designers

Here is how the picture comes together. We supply costume designers who develop the wardrobe concept, build the costume budget, and run the fitting, making and scene matching process for shoots in Belgium. Our team places designers who can source from Belgian and neighbouring costume houses, commission bespoke makes, and dress crowds for period and modern work. They lead a costume department of supervisors, makers, standbys and dressers, set up closely with the makeup and hair team and the production designer, and manage scene matching across long schedules. Belgium's position inside the EU makes it straightforward to bring in extra stock and pro makers from France, the Netherlands and Germany, and our designers are skilled at delivering ambitious wardrobes within the cost discipline that Tax Shelter-financed shoots need.

Here is what we have to work with. Belgium's costume tradition reflects a film culture that ranges from the naturalism of the Dardenne brothers — where wardrobe must read as genuinely lived-in working clothes — to the stylised worlds of Jaco Van Dormael and the country's design-conscious fashion scene, with Antwerp long set up as a worldwide major fashion city. Designers trained at the LUCA School of Arts and through the apprenticeship route of working shoots bring strong craft and a multilingual department culture.

Here is how that works. Belgian costume designers have dressed global features and series finishing through the Tax Shelter as well as homegrown shoots competing for the Magritte and Ensor awards. They are as well comfortable on a tight social-realist drama or a large-scale genre shoot. We match each designer to the period and scale of the production.