Top Veteran Hollywood Costume Designer Talks Pay-Gap & IP Rights: “These Old Contracts Are Anachronistic, They’re Misogynistic, They’re Discriminatory” – Taormina
deadline.comCelebrated Hollywood costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis has said the time is ripe for an overhaul of the contracts covering pay and conditions as well as Intellectual Property rights for her profession.
The costume designer, whose credits include Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Blues Brothers and Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, said people in the profession in the U.S.
and Canada were routinely making a third less than production designers on the same production. She suggested that the pay-gap for her profession, which is roughly 80% female, was symptomatic of a larger problem related to women’s pay in general. “Globally, women make between 25% to 30% less than men in the same job.
And that’s true in the movie business as well,” she told Deadline. “Going on basic scale, costume designers make one third less than production designers.” “That doesn’t make any sense.
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