Costume Designer

GINGER MARTINI
visit Ginger: www.gingermartini.com

Hello, I’m Ginger : ) I designed and created the costumes for Spring. When Lynne and I first met to talk about the film, she had mentioned she would like some slippers that involved a winter activity. Snowshoe was the first thing that popped into my head and I was off to the fabric shops to find somethings to make these bad boys. My co-workers at the concert booking agency I work for thought I was bananas sitting at my desk, chatting to the bands on the phone while hand sewing fleece and faux fur to a cut up cereal box claiming to be making snowshoes slippers.

The next step was the snow suit. I always pictured our hero in red and thought that red should be a pretty common color to find in snow suit. Well, turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. The red jacket was super easy to find, the red snowpants in early October proved to be something of folklore. After days of hunting in stores and online, it became pretty clear that red snowpants would not be in the film. So on to plan B, black snowpants to match all of her winter accessories.

On to the PJs! I found the perfect green flannel and made some cozy PJs for our hero complete with matching headband. The snowflake on the PJs as well as the headband were made up of small crystals I Krazy glued to the fabric. I lost most of my fingerprints gluing those crystals down!

Biography: Armed with a Bachelor of Design from Ryerson University’s School of Fashion, Ginger launched her eponymously named label in 2005, and showed her debut collection at Toronto’s Alternative Fashion Week the following year.

Now a leading costume designer and makeup artist working in feature film, Ginger has worked on countless Canadian productions and is looking forward to her latest clothing collection, Ragdoll, set to launch in Spring of 2010. Equally inspired by classic starlets, vampy rock stars and desperate housewives, her feminine designs are poised to dazzle the eye and charm the masses.