Susan Matheson: Costume Designer (Don't Look Up, Step Brothers, The Big Short)

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Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Susan Matheson is responsible for costuming some of our favorite blockbuster movies, from Step Brothers and The Town to The Big Short and Friday Night Lights. She has been leading teams in creating sartorial worlds for over two decades, and her latest project is the highly anticipated Netflix film Don’t Look Up, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, that is debuting on December 24. But before Matheson established herself as a major player in the industry, she actually started her career working for Mattel, where she designed clothing patterns for Barbie and Disney toys. On this episode of Second Life, hear about the catalyst that made Matheson leave what she describes as a “dream career in fashion” to follow the truest form of her passion within film.

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0:58.3	Today on the show, I'm chatting with costume designer Susan Matheson.
1:03.0	Susan is responsible for costuming some of our favorite blockbuster movies over the years.
1:08.1	From Blue Crush to Step Brothers to the Big Short, she's been leading teams to create
1:13.2	her tutorial worlds for over two decades.
1:17.3	Her latest project is the Netflix film Don't Look Up, in which two low-level astronomers
1:23.2	who are played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence go on a giant media tour to warn
1:29.1	mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
1:33.8	But before Susan was designing costumes for hundreds of characters in some of the most
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