The Real Reason Costume Designers Are Paid Less Than Their Peers

“Personally, I wouldn’t even know how to start inhabiting the character without the initial costume fitting,” Elle Fanning said in a recent Instagram video. She’s one of several A-list actors and directors — along with Jean Smart, Sofia Coppola, Judd Appatow and Helen Mirren — who took part in a Costume Designers Guild (CDG) grassroots campaign supporting pay equity and creating awareness about the wage gap between costume teams and their production counterparts. In her testimonial, Fanning lauded her frequent collaborator Mirren Gordon Crozier for helping her take on the challenge of portraying “real life person” Michelle Carter in “The… Read Full Article