Costume design

ELI5

The design of clothing and accessories to express character, period, world, action and visual structure.

“The treatment should show the costume design clearly enough for the department to plan it.”

You may encounter “Costume design” in production design, locations, costume & hmu conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how spaces, objects, clothes, hair and make-up create the physical world.

WardrobeCostume design refers to designed clothing as part of character and world; wardrobe often refers to the clothing stock, department or on-set management function.

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.