Costume Designers

Here is how this works in practice. We supply costume designers who interpret a production's wardrobe brief and deliver it across a Croatian shoot. Our team places costume designers who research and design looks, source and build costumes, run fittings, and watch wardrobe crews on set. They work between Zagreb's costume houses. This includes the historic stock built up around Jadran Film, and today's suppliers, and they manage scene matching across long schedules and many locations.

Here is the short of it. A costume designer we place works with closely with the director and production designer to lock a coherent look, builds realistic budgets, and sets up makers, dyers and breakdown artists. For period shoots using Dubrovnik's medieval Old City or Diocletian's Palace in Split. They have access to costume stock and craftspeople skilled in historical work. They keep wardrobe ordered and camera-ready through demanding location days in heat and on water.

Here is the breakdown. Croatia's costume craft is rooted in its studio history. Jadran Film, founded in Zagreb in 1946, accumulated decades of wardrobe stock and trained costume crews through long service to global shoots, and the Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb) continues to feed designers into the industry. The country's run of major shoots. This includes 'Game of Thrones', 'Robin Hood' and the classic 1960s Winnetou Westerns shot at Plitvice and in the Velebit mountains, has kept period and fantasy costume skills sharp.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Dalmatia and Istria also carry living textile and folk-dress traditions that designers can draw on for authenticity. Costume designers we place work to the records standards visiting shoots expect, gain from the 'Filming in Croatia' incentive administered by HAVC, and use EU free movement and straightforward intra-EU gear movement to bring in pro makers or rented stock from Italy. Slovenia and Austria when a build is ambitious.