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Tamara Gagnidze

 
 The aspects of the Theatre Costume industry that interest me most are the technical and creative processes of forming the garment as well as costume research through famous Art press.

As a result of my training through TAFE I have learnt to incorporate draping designs into my pattern making skills; I have developed enthusiasm for period costume, textures, colours, shapes and fabrics.

Because of the workplacement component of the Diploma course I have gained knowledge of how to work under pressure behind the scenes and ability to make last minute adjustments to costumes when it's required.

At present I am employed by David Jones as a seamstress.  This involves fitting customers and completing alterations.  These skills are of use in Theatre Costume because they give me the ability to alter various styles and the knowledge to change designs when required.

In the future I would like to work with well-known performance companies and assist designers and pattern cutters in putting shows together.

 

MADAME BOVARY  

I read Gustave Flaubert's 'Madam Bovary' ten years ago and her tragic character always filled my heart with sadness.  After seeing two versions of 'Madam Bovary' I decided to make a day dress for her from the 1949 movie version directed by Vincente Minneli, cast by Jennifer Jones.
  

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) is the acclaimed masterpiece of realistic fiction in 19th-century French literature. The novel traces the desperate attempts of Emma Bovary to escape from the boredom and drabness of provincial life. Unhappy in her marriage and encountering only mediocrity in the lovers she originally believed could save her, Madame Bovary amasses huge debts and finally, in a state of complete demoralization, poisons herself. When the novel was published, Flaubert was charged with immorality by the courts, but it is clear that it is the unflattering portrayal of bourgeois society that aroused them, not any act of immorality in the novel. Madame Bovary had a profound influence on succeeding French novelists, especially the naturalists Zola and de Maupassant.