Intimate Scenography: exploring the drama of the costume fitting as a micro performance by creating a rationale for rethinking costume manufacture and teaching. Interest has been expressed by costume production participants in their professional working conditions, practices, and relationships within the theatre and film industries. This reveals a concern that costume practice has been forgotten or set aside, within wider critical-creative arguments of scenography (Hann, 2017, p. 5). This study explores student actors, costume production students, a director and tutor through hermeneutic conversation and observation, drawing on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and autoethnography, to develop a teaching methodology that foregrounds emotional intelligence and costume’s role in scenography. I ask whether there can be a paradigm shift to reconnect the technologies of theatre and open out “[…] the expertise of the technician with all those who operate creatively within the theatre” (Hunt and Melrose, 2005, p. 70). I examine whether Intimate Scenography - the performance experienced by designers, supervisors, and makers during a fitting offers a valid descriptor for the act of applied costuming. My analysis produced seven interrelated themes: Collaboration and teamwork, Gender dynamics and patriarchy, Emotional safety, Creative contribution and attribution, Professional growth and development, Power of costume, and Ethical considerations. These themes reveal the cultural context of the costume community, and the complex social performances performed within fitting spaces. I propose Conscious Costuming: an approach that recognises the thinking, creative possibilities, and ethical responsibilities of applied costume work, acknowledging the interpersonal and emotional sensitivities involved in working in close proximity to the performer’s body. This thesis argues for a pedagogical shift that improves communication and recognition of creative practice within these liminal spaces. Keywords: Performance Design, Costume, Fittings, Intimate Scenography, Pedagogy.