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CLAIRE DIAN
COSTUME DESIGNER
BIO & CONTACT
Born in Paris on September the 26th of 1996, I developed an interest for drawing, art and cinema at a very young age. In Highschool, I realized that costume could be the best way to deal with all of my different passions. After my graduation, I studied Applied Arts for a year at the Duperré School (Paris) where I explored, among others, textile design, embroidery, the study of colors and fashion history.
My ambition to become a Costume Designer was now clear but, without any sewing skills, I assumed I was lacking of knowledge about this job. I studied Costume Making for two years at the Lycée Paul Poiret (Paris), getting more familiar with pattern cutting, corset making or tailoring. I learned as much as I could about the costume industry at school and during internships.
With this experience, I then entered the National School of Theatre’s Arts and Techniques, ENSATT (Lyon) to follow a Master of Art in Costume Design. During this degree, I learned about natural dying techniques, distressing and aging, millinery making, dramaturgy, history of costume and designed costumes for several projects. Thanks to my studies and numerous internships, I have now a better comprehension of the world of Performing Arts.
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PROJECTS
THEATRE
CINEMA
CINEMA & TV
DANSE
DANCE
CURRICULUM VITAE
CURRICULUM VITAE
COSTUME DESIGN
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Reading and analysis of a script/play
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Dramaturgical research
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Moodboards and iconography research
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Costume script breakdown
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Costume illustration
COMPUTER SKILLS
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Mac OS
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Photoshop
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Video editing
WARDROBE SUPERVISING
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Textile sampling
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Shopping and renting
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Fitting
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Budgeting
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On-set dressing
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Costume maintenance
LANGUAGES
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French (native)
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English (fluent)
COSTUME MAKING
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Sewing
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Draping
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Pattern making
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Alterations
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Embroidery
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Natural dying
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Chemical dying
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Costume distressing
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Prop making
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Beauty & SFX make-up
Sept. - Nov. 2020 LES PETITS MEURTRES D'AGATHA CHRISTIE SEASON 3 INTERNSHIP
Internship (7weeks) with the costume designer Céline Guignard-Rajot and the costume department of the 3rd and 4th episodes of the TV serie Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie season 3 (prod. France Télévision and Escazal film - dir. Alexandre Coffre)
Aug. - Sept. 2020 THE TEMPEST INTERNSHIP
Internship (4weeks) with the costume designer Cindy Lombardi and her crew on The Tempest by Shakespeare with the Company Sandrine Anglade (dir. Sandrine Anglade - author William Shakespeare)
March 2020 HÔTEL LA PARENTHÈSE COSTUME DESIGN
Co-creation with Salomé Romano (ENSATT promo79) of the costume designs for the short film Hôtel La Parenthèse, graduation project of Maxime Kreber (La CinéFabrique promo4)
Dec. 2019 - Feb. 2020 LA VISION DES CHOSES COSTUME DESIGN
Costume designer on the graduation project of Marie Demesy (ENSATT promo79) played from the 24th to the 28th February 2020 a the ENSATT (dir. Marie Demesy - author Lydie Tamisier)
December 2019 GRAND BATTEMENT COSTUME DESIGN
Costume designer on the solo performance of Marie Depoorter (ENSATT promo79) played from the 13th to the 18th of December 2019 at the ENSATT (acting and writing Marie Depoorter - consulting dir. Olivier Maurin)
December 2019 UNE BRÈVE HISTOIRE DE PAROLE COSTUME DESIGN
Costume designer on the solo performance of Léonce Pruvost (ENSATT promo79) played from the 13th to the 18th of December 2019 at the ENSATT (acting and writing Léonce Pruvost - consulting dir. Olivier Maurin and Nicolas De Gélis)
June - Sept. 2019 LA GARÇONNE INTERNSHIP
Internship (13 weeks) with the costume designer Céline Guignard-Rajot and the costume department of the TV mini-serie La Garçonne, created by Dominique Lancelot (prod. France Television and Mother production - dir. Paolo Barzman)
11 - 20 April 2019 PROJET AUDACIEUX ! DÉTESTABLE PENSÉE ! BACKSTAGE
Backstage costuming on the stage production Projet audacieux ! Détestable pensée ! variation around the baroque opera Il Flamigno by Pergolesi created by the third year students of the ENSATT (promo78) and the students from the CNSMD at the TNP (dir. Christian Schiaretti - author Romain Nicolas - cost. Claire Fayel et Ella Simon-Bot)
Jan. - March 2019 NOTRE ILIADE COSTUME DESIGN
Costume design, costume making and costume renting at the ENSATT for the play Notre Iliade, ordered by the Musée des Moulages of Lyon for the European Latin and Greek Festival, in collaboration with students from the Performing Art Study Departement of Lyon 2 University and the stage director Pierre Kuentz, director the the company Les Infortunes. (dir. Pierre Kuentz)
03 - 09 Feb. 2018 CRUE (ANTICIPATION CLIMATIQUE) BACKSTAGE
Backstage costuming on the stage production Crue created by the third year students of the ENSATT (promo77) directed by Jean-Pierre Baro and played from the 03rd to the 09th of February 2018 at the ENSATT (dir. Jean-Pierre Baro - cost. Magdalena Calloc'h and Paul Trottet)
February 2017 OPÉRA NATIONAL DE LORRAINE INTERNSHIP
Internship (3weeks) at the Opera’s costume workshop during the production of Semiramide by Gioaccino Rossini (dir. Nicola Raab - cost. Julia Müer)
November 2016 LES AMANTS MAGNIFIQUES INTERNSHIP
Internship (3weeks) with the costume designer Erick Plaza-Cochet during the production of the ballet by Molière and Lully Les Amants Magnifiques with the company Les Malins Plaisirs (dir. Vincent Tavernier)
June 2016 ANGELS COSTUMES INTERNSHIP
Internship (4weeks) in the stock and different workshops at Angels Costumes in London
December 2015 LES NOËLLERIES INTERNSHIP
nternship (2weeks) with the costume designer Véronique Vigneron during the preparation of the Christmas Season’s shows from the Company ACIDU
SCHOOLARSHIP & DIPLOMAS
2017 - 2020 COSTUME DESIGN MASTER'S DEGREE
ÉCOLE NATIONALE DES ARTS ET TECHNIQUES DU THÉÂTRE (ENSATT) - LYON
MASTER THESIS
Greek antiquity, between fantasy and archeology : research on designing the costumes of Ancient Greece
2015 - 2017 TECHNICAL DEGREE IN COSTUME MAKING
LYCÉE POLYVALENT DES MÉTIERS DE LA MODE ET DU SPECTACLE PAUL POIRET - PARIS
2014 - 2015 FOUNDATION COURSE IN APPLIED ARTS
ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEURE DES ARTS APPLIQUÉS (ESAA) DUPERRÉ - PARIS
2014 HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA WITH HIGH HONORS - LITTERATURE SPECIALTY
LYCÉE BUFFON - PARIS
COSTUME DESIGN
COSTUME DESIGN
Since always, I was passionated by drawing. I worked my best to get a keen eye and be able to reproduce bodies, draping and fabrics. I first aspired to become a comic-book artist, interested by the narrative power of a well constructed image. Later, my taste for cinematography and performing arts lead me to choose Costume Design as a career path. With a drawing, with one costume, we are sometimes able to tell everything that a character does not.
To me, drawing is another language that allows communication with a creative team. The design, it’s the costume as created after a profound study of a text, researches and a selection of inspirations. It’s also a tool for the workshop, during fittings and the creative process, an help to find the best technical solutions for the best artistic result. The costume design is the outcome of the costume's conception, the genesis of its making.
NATURAL DYING
NATURAL DYING
I was initiated to the art of natural dying by Sandrine Rozier at the ENSATT. I am now proud to consider this technique in my work as a costumer
Using plants extracts, natural dye offers a very large color chart full of vivid colors. A certain mastering of plant’s chemistry allow us to intervene on the colors already obtained to access different shades.
Coming in the form of powders, plant’s extracts are very easy to use. They can be measured precisely to be used in the most efficient way. Used in a bath to get homogenous fabric or tie-and-dye effects or made into a paste to be painted or applied with a stencil, plants offer numerous possibilities.
I am please to practice natural dying, an artisanal and environmentally friendly technique. Furthermore, this technique is in adequacy with my researches on Costuming Antiquity.
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COSTUME MAKING
COSTUME MAKING
Sewing, draping, pattern making, tailoring, corseting, decorating, distressing or even millinery making, such were the crafts I could explore during my scholarship and internships.
My education as a costume maker, I choose it because I was eager to learn the many aspects of the art of costuming. With patience and motivation, I learned as much as I could, thus making myself able to be a very versatile asset during my internships, capable of adaptating my skills depending on the tasks I was assigned.
On several occasions for my projects, I was lead to use my sewing skills to make costumes I had designed.
This sewing skills, if they are not the first object of my work as a Costume Designer, allow me to understand the needs of a costume and what it take to go from the design to the costume itself.
By understanding the costume making techniques and the specificity of different fabrics, I can understand the technical needs of a costume and, at the same time, the needs of a workshop.
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