Costume Designers

Here is how this works in practice. We place costume designers with shoots filming across Serbia, supported by a Belgrade-centred crew base that has grown competitively over years of servicing global features and series. Our costume designers run the wardrobe department from start to finish. Script breakdown, character design, sourcing and making, fittings, ageing and breakdown, and on-set scene matching. And they do it at Serbian dinar rates well below Western Europe.

Here is the short of it. Belgrade's strong theatre custom means designers can draw on big stage wardrobe stock, skilled cutters and makers, and dyers and milliners, while a decade of global shoots has built up usable period and today's stock locally. We match each designer to the era and scale of the project, from intimate today's drama to large costume builds at the today's PFI Studios near Simanovci. The 25-30% cash rebates through the Film in Serbia programme of the Serbia Film Commission improves the value when costume labour and materials qualify. We brief designers on references and schedule, then connect you directly so fittings start promptly.

Here is the breakdown. Serbia gives a costume designer deep historical reference. The country's heritage runs through Serbian Orthodox Christianity and the medieval Nemanjic-era monasteries. This includes UNESCO-listed Studenica, whose frescoes are a primary source for Byzantine-influenced dress. Centuries at the crossroads of empires layered Ottoman and Habsburg influences over the region. The twentieth century added Yugoslav-era and socialist tailoring. A steady wardrobe of periods within one country.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Belgrade, set where the Sava meets the Danube, is well used at doubling for other European capitals and has hosted global shoots including Ralph Fiennes's 'Coriolanus', so designers here are used to global standards. Serbia's celebrated cinema, with Emir Kusturica a two-time Palme d'Or winner, sustains a craft culture that values costume. Four distinct seasons, from cold winters to warm summers, mean designers plan layered, weather-credible looks, and with English widely spoken in the industry, joint work with visiting heads of department is straightforward.