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You dress up nicely for a party; Erna is making sure of that. Erna has a lot of experience with costumes for theatre, movies and television (her website).

Erna, you design the costumes for fashion show of musical instruments at the 25th edition of Night of the Proms, and also for the extra’s of the choir. Are the members of the orchestra dressed up as well, including Robert Groslot? Erna: ‘A fashion show of musical instruments is a big statement, because it is a small band and not an orchestra , for the rest I also do the choir of soloists and chose the clothes for the backing vocals. Even the orchestra and the electric band are getting an extra color. Robert Groslot can choose …’
	Are all costumes finished already or do they have to do a lot of cutting and sewing at Huis Baeyens? Erna: ‘The production of the costumes for the extra’s is nearly finished; today I finish the details and Baeyens is completely finished … but I’m controlling with a whip . The items ordered abroad are being shipped, so that gives some excitement.’
	Will you also dress up the artists? The brothers Katona, Toots Thielemans, and the others? Erna: ‘The artists will all come in their own clothes.’
	Will all costumes will have music instruments as a theme? Or is everything evolving around a certain color? Erna: ‘The music instruments are my idea and are a cherry on top. The costumes for the extra refer to the theme’s of the music and colors are always important for me.’

Can you go your own way? In other words: do you have to take into account the people of the lights, direction, technical staff, etc… or is it the other way around? Erna: ‘The direction are the most important people, otherwise you get a beast with 7 heads… or more… light is of course important as well, because a costume you can’t see is useless as well . It’s more or less the other way around, because the choreographie as to take me into account… I came first and got a large freedom.’

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