costumier
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costumiers
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noun
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At a fancy-dress party on Mustique, she wore a Valkyrie outfit, hired for her by Colin Tennant from a Los Angeles costumier, and in it she mimed an aria from the Ring Cycle.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2017
They have a UK origin, having been specially customised by famous London costumier Bermans & Nathans, whose 40 Camden Street address remains on a clothing tag.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
Martin Scorsese and Sandy Powell are another power couple of director and costumier.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2012
To make a pretty picture at the expense of drama is merely to pander to the voracity of the costumier and scene-painter.
From The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song by Claud Lovat Fraser
Nello Corsini, his slim figure habited in the garments which he had hired from a costumier in the neighbourhood of Wardour Street, followed these famous personages.
From The Intriguers by William Le Queux
Catering to the needs of the numerous local seamstresses, costumiers, knitters, crocheteers and dressmakers, it thrived.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2022
Among them are costumiers hand-sewing tiny emerald green crystals onto a dancer's outfit.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2017
The atmosphere was often one of a family fete, with horse riding and circus sideshows, costumiers and storytelling.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2015
You suspect, however, that one supplementary profession still making healthy profits will be historical costumiers.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2012
Still they were expressly designed to afford valuable opportunities to the musical composer, to the ballet-dancers, mummers, posture-makers, and costumiers.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
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