Join us as instructor Rafaella Rabinovich discusses designing costumes for queer characters in film, TV, and theater. This course will examine how to use costume to subvert stereotypes, celebrate diversity, and highlight the complexity of LGBTQ+ identities through color and style.
COURSE START TIME: 4:30M ET (1:30PM PT)
Join Vanguarde Artists Management's Founder Tina Horwitz, and Agent Bianca Rusu, for a talk and open Q&A exploring artist representation in the world of Costume Design. Vanguarde Artist Management is an agency dedicated to representing Costume Designers with a personalized, hands-on approach. They specialize in helping costume professionals connect with top opportunities, advocating for their creative vision, and supporting their career growth. Through thoughtful discussions and tailored guidance, their mission is to empower Costume Professionals, adding value through expert representation and meaningful connections, ensuring that designers have a strong voice in the industry.
COURSE START TIME: 1PM ET (10AM PT)
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Saturday, December 21, 2024 and will reopen on Monday, January 6, 2025.
Join is for the spectacular celebration of Canadian Costume Design & Arts on Sunday, March 2, at the Eglinton Grand in Toronto, Canada.
Dress code: Creative evening gala. If you ever had a look that was too much, this is the perfect time to break it out for the red carpet.
Email any questions to info@thecaftcadawards.com. All Awards Gala tickets are final sale.
November 11 at 23:59 ET is the deadline for submissions for the 2025 CAFTCAD Awards! Click the button below to get started.
This course will demonstrate frequently requested paint breakdown techniques for costumes. During this online seminar, participants will have the chance to watch live demonstrations and may choose to follow along with their own materials (a materials list will be provided prior to the course). Instructors Erin and Debi will show participants the basics in costume breakdown for common elements found in a script: mud, snow, grease, vomit, and burning.
COURSE START TIME: 1PM ET (10AM PT)
Following our previous (and sold out!) collaboration with SMOC, Inside Out takes a look at the cut of historical garments, and will feature Industry Cutters from CAFTCAD, speaking to how these historical designs are adapted for present day film. Arrive early, as CAFTCAD has organized a silent auction of historical and modern fashion items and reference.
Details and tickets will be released on the SMOC website in October. Members get early access to tickets. Make sure your membership with SMOC and CAFTCAD are up to date and valid!
Auction bidding & doors open at 1pm
Event starts at 2pm
Tickets going on sale in October.
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
One of the first introductory phases of designing or creating costumes for a film or series involves initial research and mood boarding. In this course, participants will learn about the process and stages involved in research and completing mood boards for a project or interview from a variety of perspectives.
COURSE START TIME: 1PM ET (10AM PT)
CAFTCAD is excited to partner with our friends at Walter Klassen to bring this informational course on 3D printing to our audience. This online course covers 3D modelling, types of 3D printers and materials, 3D printing applications and leveraging the technology - specifically for costuming needs.
COURSE START TIME: 1PM ET (10AM PT)
Mark your calendars, our popular Movie Wardrobe Sale will be held at Studio City Toronto on October 19th. We hope you can join us for some treasure hunting!
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Saturday, October 12, 2024 and will reopen on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Saturday, August 31, 2024 and will reopen on Tuesday, September 3, 2024.
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Saturday, August 3, 2024 and will reopen on Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
The CAFTCAD West Committee invites you to get outside this summer and socialize with our Vancouver costume community! Join us on Sunday, July 28 at 11:00am at the Festival Lawn, Deer Lake Park for the opportunity to mingle, catch up with fellow members and costumers, and enjoy a (hopefully 🤞) sunny afternoon. This event is open to members and non-members, so invite all your costume friends and colleagues!
🧺 We encourage everyone to bring their own food, beverages, and picnic blanket.
🚗 There is recommended parking by the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts off Canada Way or the parking lot near the Carousel. The picnic area is on the far side of the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts building on the Festival Lawn.
Please email any questions you may have to info@caftcad.com. We look forward to seeing you there!
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Saturday, June 29, 2024 and will reopen on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
This course is designed to strengthen your knowledge about what Intimacy Coordinators do in the film industry, learn about their creation in Canada, and learn tools to develop the interdepartmental relationship between Costumes and Intimacy Coordinators. Canada's first-ever Intimacy Coordinator, Lindsay Somers, will take us through working on a closed set, discuss language and etiquette when involved in an intimacy fitting with performers, and showcase us some updated Modesty Garments.
COURSE START TIME: 1:30PM ET (10:30 AM PT)
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Friday, May 17, 2024 and will reopen on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.
With a new membership year on the horizon, we wanted to create more opportunities to connect with our members and continue to build our community. That’s why this Wednesday and Thursday night, we want to provide the chance for CAFTCAD members to meet, network, and mingle with two social events in Toronto! We also encourage our members to use this opportunity to invite along a friend who has been thinking about joining CAFTCAD.
No cover charge. Guests are responsible for their own food and beverage bill.
Consider donating to CAFTCAD’s GoFundMe campaign to help support more initiatives like these!
Please email any questions you may have to info@caftcad.com. We look forward to seeing you there!
Discover the lasting impact of the 1980s on fashion, culture, film and television during a panel talk presented by the Bata Shoe Museum in collaboration with The Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts and Design (CAFTCAD). Inspired by the BSM’s current exhibition Dressed to Impress: Footwear and Consumerism in the 1980s, and moderated by celebrated journalist Nathalie Atkinson, panelists Nishi Bassi, Suzanne Boyd, and Allisa Swanson, will share their insights on the cultural significance of this dynamic era and it’s lasting impression in the world of film and television. All galleries will be open for viewing, drinks and snacks available for purchase.
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
CAFTCAD is excited to present a conversation with Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh and the costume heads behind Netflix's hit series, Avatar: The Last Airbender! From sketch to screen, Farnaz and her team will dive into the creative process, inspiration, and craft that went into developing the costumes for this beloved series.
Award winning costume designers Luis Sequeira (The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, It: Chapter 2), Joanna Syrokomla (Murdoch Mysteries, Little Italy), and Charlene Akuamoah (Canada's Drag Race, Robyn Hood) go through the levels of how to get a meeting, prepare your visuals, and inspire the interview room in this in person and online seminar.
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Friday, March 29, 2024 and will reopen on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Sunday, March 10, 2024 and will reopen on Monday, March 18, 2024.
Budgeting can be a headache, but coming into the job prepared can make all the difference! This course offers a guideline of basic budgeting needs for a costume department, whether it's a low/indie budget production or big budget production. Our instructors are seasoned costume professionals who know their way around a costume department budget. Their insight, experience, and knowledge will provide newcomers and intermediate costumers a basic understanding of setting up a costume budget depending on the needs of the project.
COURSE STARTS AT 2PM ET (11AM PT)
Interested in getting involved with CAFTCAD’s various committees? These various committees meet either monthly or bi-monthly for 60 minute meetings. They cover everything from Education, CAFTCAD Awards, CAFTCAD West, BeSpoke Magazine, CAFTCAD Library, Fundraising, and Membership.
If you’re interested in joining any of these committees, please email tessa@caftcad.com to learn more. Click the button below to read more about our committees.
Meetings start at: 11AM ET (8AM PT)
Please note that the CAFTCAD offices are closed from Friday, February 16, 2024 and will reopen on Tuesday, February 20, 2024.
