{"id":52102,"date":"2023-02-08T13:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/?p=52102"},"modified":"2023-02-08T13:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:18:06","slug":"award-winning-designer-seymour-visits-baltimore-on-costumes-and-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/humanities-institute\/2023\/02\/08\/award-winning-designer-seymour-visits-baltimore-on-costumes-and-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning designer Seymour visits Baltimore: on costumes and character"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Members of the Baltimore arts scene gathered on Monday, Feb. 6th to hear from award-winning costume designer Justine Seymour. Sharing the story of her career\u2014a path with many interesting and unexpected twists and turns\u2014Seymour discussed her experiences as first an arts student, then model, designer, and finally much-celebrated costumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audience for Seymour’s conversation included JHU affiliates (hosted by the JHU AAP Film & Media program) as well as students from the Baltimore School for the Arts, plus other community attendees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the topics explored was Seymour’s interest in building character through costume, including how personality and relationships\u2014a character’s power, insecurities, struggles, and feelings\u2014can be made visible in their dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seymour has recently won acclaim as the costume designer for independent series Unorthodox<\/em> (hosted by Netflix, 2020), as well as for her work on recent Civil Rights anthology Women of the Movement <\/em>(ABC 2022) and new biopic True Spirit <\/em>(Netflix 2023). Her full filmography stretches over 50 films and television works, including major productions from Moulin Rouge! <\/em>to Mission: Impossible II<\/em> (both after getting her Master\u2019s degree in design at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School [AFTRS]).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These days, Seymour is at work with LUX Artists and the Agency for the Performing Arts (APA), on projects including costume design for The Mosquito Coast <\/em>(Apple TV 2021\u201323), Transatlantic <\/em>(Netflix, projected 2023), and further upcoming work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out more about Seymour’s work\u2014including boards with sketches and production photos from Unorthodox, Backtrack<\/em>, and more\u2014on her website<\/a>. Also, read more about Seymour’s process and experiences in this interview from 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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