ABSTRACT
But in spite of all the costume play my friends and I did at school (or perhaps even because of it!), I graduated, and went on to further pursue costume building, along with wig and hairpiece construction/styling, at the Juilliard School in New York. At that point, I had decided that what I wanted to do most with my costuming career was work for a company like Lucasfilm, to create movies such as Star Wars that would inspire people in the positive way it had inspired me, and I’ve been very
I’ve been creating costume, prop, and puppet projects ever since I was a very young girl. I’ve always enjoyed playing makebelieve, pretending to be someone or something else, and especially liked to play costume dress-up. No blanket, towel, or bedsheet was safe from me; they were always being used for capes, medieval princess gowns, flags, tents, or any number of other costume/prop pieces. My mother has often told the story of how she found me one day curled up asleep in a cardboard box covered with a blanket, a caterpillar waiting to turn into a butterfly. I suppose you could say that was one of my earliest cosplays!
