Angels Costumes Behind The Seams

This week’s episode is the final one we are releasing this year and Jonathan, Jeremy and Richard discuss what has happened over this strangest of times and how costume has changed this year.  We answer some of the questions we have been sent in and look at what’s to come in 2021.  
We hope you have enjoyed the podcasts this year - we certainly have been enjoying them and learning more about the interviewees and this great industry of ours and we look forward to introducing our more episodes next year.

Phil (Goldy) Goldsworthy’s CV reads like a list of the epic films made by UK crew of the last 20 years. Beginning your film work on Fifth Element is a pretty good start for any one and as you will hear, Phil has been involved in most of the large crowd productions (although not apparently Gladiator) since then.
What is not so well known is that prior to his involvement with Fifth Element he had co won Young Engineer of Great Britain – and we have the footage to prove it from back in the day when mullets were a hairstyle of choice.
A thoroughly conscientious and diligent wardrobe man,  Phil has been at the very sharp end of a huge number of films and his passion for the industry shines through this interview.

Matt Price is a British Costume Designer who has been working in the industry for 20 years. His chat today with Jeremy examines the journey he has takento where he is today.
Matt always had a passion for photography which led to studying Theatre Designat Saint Martin’s and upon graduationhe started his career as a costumier in the contemporary department at Angels under the leadership of Richard Davies.
Seven years  later he left Angels to become a freelance costume designer as he found that the relationships he had made while organising music nights in his spare time helped him to break into the music video industry. From there Matt kept striving to move further into the industry and established himself as a designer for both TV and Film productions. Over the 10 years he has now been designing, he has worked across most mediums, and has become known for the realism he creates in his characters. 
Matt believes in the strength of narrative that comes from creating a character’s costumes, and has used that knowledge to further the projects he works on and to grow as a designer.
His productions credits include Fighting With My Family, The Nest, The Selfish Giant, Brexit: The Uncivil War and the soon to be released Supernova.

Howard Burden is a highly respected Costume Designer who has been working in the industry for over 30 years.  In his conversation with Richard, Howard looks back at his career from Wimbledon college to the BBC days to his highly successful career as a freelance designer. Along the way Howard has worked on some iconic TV series including Dr Who, Red Dwarf, Poldark and Wurzel Gummidge.
A great believer in the strength of the team, he see his role as a collaborative one – he is  equally at home putting looks together at Costume Houses or finding ways to make the costumes with his team.  He is not too proud to be found towards the end of a filming day doing the laundry on the Wardrobe truck if it means his team can get home earlier.
Howard has an infectious joy about him when he is talking about costume or around costume, always projecting a sense of calm no matter what chaos is happening on a film set.  He has forged great relationships with actors, crew and directors which has led him to the position he now has in the industry.  His body of work and growing list of collaborators is testament to that

Sarah Bowern is a highly-respected costume supervisor in the UK and internationally. She explores with Jonathan how her experiences as a design student in the Young Vic wardrobe department gave her the technical insights to embark on a career that spans the NT, RSC and West End, amongst others. This journey led to a role as Costume Production Manager at the ENO, where she is currently Deputy Head of Costume.
Her creative and leadership skills - combined with recent efforts to mobilise teams of makers to manufacture PPE for key workers during the COVID19 crisis - were recognised in the Queen’s 2020 Birthday Honours list with an MBE for services to opera and charity. 
Sarah’s ongoing focus on supporting many of the industry’s most influential designers makes her an integral part of the creative process, a role she describes with eloquence and passion.