ScreenTalk » designer http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com TV and Film Industry Interviews Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:16:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Fashion designer Liz Mitchell talks Gloss http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/interview-with-fashion-designer-liz-mitchell http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/interview-with-fashion-designer-liz-mitchell#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:54:51 +0000 Screen Talker http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/?p=37 Before launching her own clothing label, designer Liz Mitchell began her career creating costumes for stage and screen (including Front Lawn classic Walkshort,and cult movie Angel Mine). In this ScreenTalk interview she turns her attention to costume-heavy 80s soap Gloss.

Liz talks about

  • the “fantastic” experience of working on Gloss over three seasons
  • designing the “over-the-top” costumes for the series, complete with shoulder pads and loud prints
  • how the fashion industry pitched in to help
  • working on forgotten TV show Seekers, starring Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Temuera Morrison
  • participating in the Benson & Hedges Fashion awards – both behind the scenes, and on the awards podium

This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.

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