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February 20, 2007

Costume Designers on the Web

In my previous post I wrote about the Houston Ballet's costume design competition and offered suggestions about how their competition could be more Internet friendly.

In this post, I'd like to point to some examples of how professional and amateur costume designers who primarily serve the dance world are promoting themselves on the Internet.

Overall, I'd say that of the costume design sites I did find, which was not many, I could barley tell what the designers actually did or whether they were currently designing costumes for dance. So if you have more information or know of good sites I should link to, please let me know.

Blogs and Flickr

- The nameless costume designer from House of Secrets has a profile on Flickr and here are some of her designs and pictures.

House of Secrets

- You can learn about Carla Cid de Diego's costume design work on her blog (from 2005) and link to dance photos on Flickr.

- New blogger "1001 Nightmares - The Worst of Bellydance" shares belly dance fashion pictures along with her amusing thoughts about the designs.

YouTube

- Belly dance designs by Asi Haskal. Video includes sample belly dance costumes and dancing. (Link to her website).


MySpace

- Costume designer Kelly has a MySpace page where you can view some of her belly dance designs.

- Costume designer Micha Merrick has a MySpace page where you can learn about and see examples of her work -- she's really a theatrical costume designer - not many dance fashion designers on MySpace :(

Fashion How-To

- Dina Lydia "The Costume Goddess" offers a wealth of resources about belly dance costumes. On the Art of Middle Eastern Dance by Shira website, you can find lots of how-to articles written by Dina.

What's the story about belly dancers? Are they more Internet savvy than everybody else? There are probably more dance blogs about belly dancing than any other form of dance. Second is probably Argentine Tango.

Posted by Doug Fox on February 20, 2007 7:32 PM

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House of Secrets is not namelss at all- its actually Hilde Haevaert of Antwerp, and I own a few of her shirts ;)

Added: March 1, 2007 2:58 AM | Permalink

Hi, I'm the nameless (well not so nameless anymore) designer behind House of Secrets Incorporated ;)

Thanks for the mention in your blog!

Kind regards,
Hilde Heyvaert

Added: March 1, 2007 3:13 AM | Permalink

mianaja said:

Hello Bellydancer here. Started in Ballet, Vaganova and danced modern, Humphrey-Weidman, actually had the chance to learn from Charles Weidman and perform Lynchtown and Brahms Waltzes before he died, but I digress.
Yes, I do think Bellydancers are more internet oriented as we perform dances based in North Africa ie. Egypt and the MIddle East, Turkey, Lebanon, etc. So we are constantly traveling to workshops, festivals and tracking our favorite teachers and competition winners all over the globe! Ours is a local and international business that runs the gamut to dancers that aspire mostly to restaurant work with Arab audiences, to festival and Renn Faire/Pennsic dancers (more tribal style) and those like me who came out of ballet and modern and prefer stage performances. We talk a lot too, its an incredibly large and diverse group. PURE is a dance group that focuses on dancing for causes like to end genocide in Darfur and environmental and women's issues. But we are all sister and brothers in the dance. Come see us, I still have a ballet jones that won't quit and will never throw away my toe shoes! Also Bellydance is a good place to come when the ballet/modern/jazz world tells you that you are too fat, too old and can't do a split or something. When you enter our world you are welcome curves and all since you need some fat to shimmy or nothing shakes! :-0

Added: February 20, 2008 8:02 PM | Permalink

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