Costume Construction
Celebrating Collaboration & Individual Ambition
Whether you want to make costumes for period dramas on television, build corsetry for opera, costume circus performers or help create character in devised theatre you can learn all the skills you need to follow your passion at Toi Whakaari.
In the Diploma in Costume Construction you make the choices and together we will work to develop your career.
The Toi Whakaari Costume Construction course aims to provide students with industry-level skills in all forms of costume construction and production, allowing them to confidently seek employment in the theatre, film and allied industries. It is an intensive vocational and highly practical full-time, two-year diploma programme with between four and seven students in each year.
What we teach at this school will assist you to hone your craft as well as your hunger to create. At Toi Whakaari we provide a range of challenges and skills to engage you to achieve your dreams.
Costume Construction students benefit from working alongside students of design for stage and screen, acting, entertainment technology, performing arts management and directing. Through sharing premises with NZ School of Dance, student costumiers will also be able to collaborate with contemporary dance students.
You can download a 2010 costume construction brochure here brochure (264kb) Or check out this presentation (1,382kb) that gives a course overview or take a look at some of the costumes made by our current students here.
Successful Graduates
2006 was the first year that the Diploma of Costume Construction was offered, and already our graduates of the course are out making an impact on the industry. Have a look here.Our contact with the industry indicates a swelling need for skilled costume construction people. Check out some of Toi Whakaari successful graduates of other courses here.
