{"id":37591,"date":"2015-04-29T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=37591"},"modified":"2016-01-15T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:28:07","slug":"costumer-and-designer-noelle-raffy-next-at-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/04\/29\/costumer-and-designer-noelle-raffy-next-at-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Costumer and designer Noelle Raffy next at Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Costume designer Noelle Raffy, next speaker at the Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series.
Photo courtesy Noelle Raffy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stage, television and motion picture costumer and fashion designer Noelle Raffy is the next speaker for the popular Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series. She will discuss and illustrate \u201cCostume Design From Creation Concept to Screen and Stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up as a backstage baby,\u201d said Raffy. Both parents danced professionally \u2014 her father, Patrick Frantz, with the Paris Opera Ballet and her mother, Patty Davis Raffy, with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet.<\/p>\n

Starting at age 6 or 7, Raffy designed and stage-managed mini-productions. \u201cI had this treasure trove of costume pieces from my grandmother that I would wear,\u201d said Raffy. \u201cI would tell my parents, \u2018You can come backstage. I\u2019ll be in costume and you can ask for autographs.\u2019 My poor younger brother would have to play parts I assigned \u2014 from a bride to a circus performer. I think that is where designing began for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she knew at age 9 she would design professionally. \u201cWhen I realized you could dress people professionally, that was my calling,\u201d she said. Raffy attended the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles where she was mentored by television designer Bob Mackie and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design. She received a Master of Fine Arts in costume design from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

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Raffy\u2019s costume design for UCR production, \u201cThe Rover.\u201d Photo courtesy Noelle Raffy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although she began her career in fashion design, she moved to costume design because she found it less restrictive. \u201cFashion design was too commercially driven,\u201d she remembered. \u201cWith costume design, I could be any place, in any historical time period. For me, that was more creative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raffy said her parents, as professional artists, supported her career choices from the beginning. And in her field, designing for stage, screen and television, she said she has had solid work from the beginning.<\/p>\n

Raffy also teaches full-time, as assistant professor of costume design at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. \u201cI teach costume design, costume construction, hair and makeup and advanced makeup, with more special effects,\u201d she said. \u201cOur department is small and very cohesive with time to mentor students in all aspects of theatre. Our students learn how important it is to have teamwork and collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her presentation, Raffy will bring costume \u201cbibles\u201d from a number of shows as well as head pieces, and manikins with full, life-sized costumes people can touch. \u201cI\u2019ll demonstrate how costuming grows from pencil sketches to full-on color renderings and where costuming fits in the sequencing of a production,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Raffy has designed for major motion pictures, including the Oscar-nominated film, \u201cThe Road,\u201d television commercials and productions, including \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d as well as national and international stage productions.<\/p>\n

Raffy\u2019s presentation takes place at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 14, at Silver Pines Lodge. A wine-and-cheese reception precedes her talk and demonstration. Both are free to the public. For more about Raffy\u2019s career, visit www.noelleraffy.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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