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Ishita Kulkarni Costume Designer
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Work Samples 2016 --
Hello!
I am Ishita Kulkarni a Costume designer based in Mumbai, India. My skills include research, fabric manipulation, costume construction and material exploration. I enjoy process based work and challenging story telling through garments in form of Films, Theatre, Dance and performances. Apart from costume design, I nurture interest in Sports, Arts & Crafts of India, Theatre, Wildlife, Photography & Travel
The Rose & the Nightingale by Oscar Wilde Costume for Live Performance
Performance is a painful visual imagery of Nightingale’s journey of creating the rose. The Nightingale symbolises a passionate artist and his/her process of creating a masterpiece and its aftermath. By the end of the performance you are left questioning the thought behind every artistic creation than the creation itself.
MA Costume Design London College of Fashion Final Project (2015-2016)
Material & Skills incorporated: Plastazote foam Form transformation
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt Costume for Film
The film attempts to map the emotional journey of the lead character Claire, from being a young girl trapped in societal norms to an old bitter revenge seeking lady. Costume creates a bridge between emotional vulnerable state and its physical repercussions on the body.
MA Costume Design London College of Fashion Second unit (2015)
Materials & Skills incorporated: Fibreglass Fortuny pleating Dyeing
Tribes Back to white Street Theatre
Performance was visualised as a chorus of devils, who are viciously looking for weak and fragile souls to trap and drag down to eternal hell but who are also narrating their own story of metamorphosis from angels to demons. The costume strives to extend the body shape through live transformation of the garments and focuses on the expressivity through the face or lack of it.
MA Costume Design London College of Fashion Collaborative Unit (2015)
Materials & Skills incorporated: puff binder (puff painting) mask making
Tragic life and death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Costume for Live Performance
MA Costume Design
Core of this performance lies in parallel established world of Bhopal gas leak of 1984, which highlights the pivotal idea of bureaucratic irresponsibility leading to manmade apocalypse. In above pictures, character is devil, who is the catalyst of death and destruction in form of blast, smoke and acid, encompassing space like smoke and spreading like acid.
Skills incorporated: Dyeing Corsetry
London College of Fashion First unit (2014)
Automobiles Man and his Inventions
This collection is an amalgamation of traditional and modern techniques, to narrate the relationship between Man and his inventions. It reflects on the intricacy and craftsmanship of human inventions and throws light on how their own creations are becoming the reason for their destruction.
B.Sc. Clothing & Textiles (2013) M.S. University, Baroda
Skills incorporated: Cutwork Machine embroidery Wire work & Corsetry Stencil & Screen printing
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B.Sc. Clothing & Textiles (2013) M.S. University, Baroda
Documentation Kutch: Land Of Crafts
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B.Sc. Clothing & Textiles (2012) M.S. University, Baroda
Kalidar kurta
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Prints & Impressions Traditional techniques Modern interpretations
These are few selected samples created by using traditional techniques of resist dyeing to impart visual texture. Experimented by resisting the fabric by using different objects and dyeing it multiple times to create textures which are unique and difficult to replicate. (Green print is created by using a pencil, whereas yellow and orange marble texture is obtained by resisting fabrics of different densities.)
B.Sc. Clothing & Textiles (2012) M.S. University, Baroda
Skills incorporated: Shibori Batik Tie and Dye
Embroidery Threads Of Communication Hand embroidery
Embroideries of India are beautiful pieces of art, but also carriers of history, mythological stories, traditions and culture. Understanding making process of embroideries gives in-depth knowledge of geographical influences and their functionality. Above are some samples made during study period.
B.Sc. Clothing & Textiles (2011) M.S. University, Baroda
Skills incorporated: Hand embroidery
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Further by using different mediums of colours it helps in imparting the physical texture of fabric and taking design closer to the visual image.
B.Sc. Clothing & Textiles (2011) M.S. University, Baroda
Skills incorporated: Pencil colour Rendering, colour mediums Photoshop
Photography
Photography is my hobby but also a crucial skill set which assists me in documenting work, framing and visualisation.
Thank you
Ishita Kulkarni
kulkarniishita@yahoo.in +91 9867272897