Costume Designers

Here is how the picture comes together. We supply costume designers who plan, source, build and run wardrobe for features, commercials and series shooting in Turkey. Our team places designers who manage the full department — research and design, fittings, ageing and breakdown, and the on-set scene matching of each look — working out of Istanbul costume houses with access to the city's fabric markets and tailoring workshops. Because Turkish shoots move between period and today's settings constantly, the costume designers we engage are used at running large background wardrobe alongside principal builds, tracking budgets in Turkish lira and folding the up-to-30% cash rebates into a department plan. They set up closely with makeup, production design and the assistant directors to keep crowd days and scene matching under control.

Here is what we have to work with. Turkey's costume-design depth is rooted in its historical-epic 'dizi' tradition: series such as 'Magnificent Century' and 'Resurrection: Ertuğrul' demanded thousands of researched Ottoman and Seljuk garments and trained a generation of cutters, embroiderers and wardrobe supervisors. That craft base sits alongside Istanbul's long-standing role as a regional textile and apparel centre, giving designers ready access to fabric, trim and skilled tailoring. Netflix originals like 'Rise of Empires: Ottoman' and 'The Protector' added today's and large-scale capacity, while university programmes feed new designers into the field each year. Global shoots — from 'The Water Diviner' around Gallipoli to features shot in Istanbul — have drawn on this pool. This combines period authenticity with the cost advantage of the favourable Turkish lira.