Amandine Garcia
Amandine Garcia Gonzalez
Born in the South of France, she was fueled since her youngest age by her passion and built her entire life in the unique goal to become a costume designer. She is not there yet but enjoy the process of learning from each experience. This purpose informed all of her life decisions: what she studied, where she chose to live, who she connected with and even her free time. She left her home at 14 years old to study applied art, she continued with a degree in psychology (to transcribe the character’s psychology into his costume) and decided to reside in Barcelona, where she had with distinction her Costume design Degree. After working with the amazing costume designer Valentina Ducet, she moved to London to continue to discover various aspect of her passion. After one year in Florida, working for Disney, she was laureate of "la fondation de la vocation" and won a prize that allowed her to settle down in Los Angeles where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in Fashion design at her dream school: FIDM. Finally she did an internship with the talented costume designer Sanja Hays for the next Marvel movie: Captain Marvel and continued working on TV shows and features.
Her creative approach is revealed in the crossing of her sources of inspirations. Resourceful and always organized, she loves to be part of the creative team to help realize what the designer have on his or her mind.
Schopenhauer said: "Despite the reason, despite the absurdity of existence, a force urges us to live, is the will." The force that drives us to live is fueled by passion, it is which constitutes us. My passion, my adrenaline, my obsession is to become a costume designer.
A PASSION, A VOCATION :
I remember the day that changed my life. When I was a child, my grandmother was accustomed to taking me to the station after school, to watch people. We sat on a bench and spent hours inventing lives for passerbys. It was my favorite game. My grandmother told me that through the clothes we could guess everything about somebody. That's how I started to draw. Growing up, I kept this habit (always a sketchbook with me) to sit down and draw what people wear, imagining their lives and personalities. I remember one day being attracted by a book in the kiosk of the station, and felt my heart beats. This book was about costumes created by the most famous designer. I still keep this book preciously because it has made me what I am today, inveterate passionate for costumes.
Since this day I never stopped researching about costume design, reinforcing my love for this job. I discovered that costumes are a form of communication that can be understood by all, regardless of differences without speaking the same language. I still admire that a simple costume can cause you to dream, make you travel, transport you to another world by the power of the visual language, and transcribe all the psychology of the character. What I prefer now is to be able to create, and during the time of a show give people the illusion that the world of dreams exists. I love everything from the analysis of the character, drawing, to the design and realization. I literally found the love of my life. You know the feeling, the butterflies that fill and flutter in your stomach because you are so happy, that’s what I feel every time I am thinking about being costume designer. It always has been a guarantee of happiness for me.