Stories are about people. It is the people who hold our attention and who are of endless fascination to the audience. Over the last century, costume designers have practiced a discrete and traditional design process that begins with the written word. Whether the genre is modern, period, or fantasy the costume designer must discover “who” the people are in the story. Our clothes take our life journey with us; we are each wearing an amalgam of stories. The audience is asked to believe that the people in the story are real and that they have had a life prior to the start of the movie. Everything about them must ring true including their clothes. Costumes are so much more than clothes—costumes embody the psychological, social and emotional condition of the character at a particular moment in the script. Costume designers are trained to create real people.