Mirela Rupic

Mirela Rupic is a famous costume designer born on March 21, 1967 in Orange County.

Biography

Mirela Rupic graduated design at Woodbury University in San Diego and built a successful career along with world-renowned costume designers. She describes herself as an honest, hard-working and witty person. Rupic draws inspiration for her costumes mostly from the nature and the inspiring street-style fashion. Mirela Rupic inherited the love for fashion and clothes from her family. Her grandfather was a skilled tailor and her mother also inherited this knowledge and craft. ‘My parents noticed my love for art early in my childhood. Not only for fashion, but also for music and drawing, that’s why I was sent to children's art school. After I’ve finished high school, I’ve decided to dedicate myself to costume design only’ explained Mirela Rupic.

Education

After she graduated design at Woodbury University, Rupic worked with the most prestigious costume designers. As she explains, this was very important period in her career. ‘I’ve learned that all creative people react intuitively. But that intuition is a reaction of what they have read, experienced, visited, felt… Not just in the world of fashion, but in culture, art, street-style and politics’ said Mirela Rupic.

Costume Design

Rupic explains that the costume design is a team work among the director, set designer and costume designer. My role in the team is to create appropriate outfits for the actors. For example, the story in my next project Istanbul takes place in Turkey around the 60s, which means that the costumes have to be from that period. Rupic adds that in this kind of costume design, the designers are limited in the creation and stick to the clothes’ characteristics from that time period.

Movies

Mirela Rupic says that she pays special attention to the costume design when watching movies. According to her, a movie that deserves an Oscar for the best costume design is Great Gatsby.