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Costume Designer
A costume designer is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or stage production. He or she is considered part of the "production team", alongside the director, scenic and lighting designers as well as the sound designer. The costume designer might also collaborate with a...
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Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Otto Lagerfeld (born September 10, 1933) is a German-born fashion designer and artist based in Paris, France. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1933 (age 76 years)
Sylvia Anderson
Sylvia Anderson (née Thamm), born 25 March 1937 (1937-03-25) (age 72), is a British voice artist and film producer, most notable for collaborations with her ex-husband Gerry Anderson.
Though co-creator of some of their productions through the 1960s,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1937 (age 72 years)
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1952 (age 57 years)
Edith Head
Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered eight Academy Awards—more than any other woman in history.
She was born Edith Claire Posener in Searchlight, Nevada,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 28, 1897
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 1981 (age 84 years)
Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood (born 1950) is an Academy Award-winning American costume designer.
Colleen has been nominated for an Academy Award numerous times and won Academy Awards for the movies Chicago in 2002 and Memoirs of a Geisha in 2006. Colleen has...
Date of birth:
- 1950 (age 60 years)
Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana (born as Robert Clark, September 13, 1928) is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement.
Robert Indiana was born in New Castle, Indiana and later relocated to Indianapolis where he graduated from Arsenal Technical High...
Date of birth:
- Sep 13, 1928 (age 81 years)
Genevieve Blanchett
Genevieve Amelie Blanchett (born 1971) is an Australian theatrical costume and set designer. She has worked extensively with the Sydney Theatre Company and other Australian theatre groups designing sets and costumes.
Blanchett was born in Melbourne,...
Date of birth:
- 1971 (age 39 years)
Geoffrey Holder
Geoffrey Holder (born 1 August 1930) is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Holder is known for his towering 200-centimeter (6'6") height, heavily...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1930 (age 79 years)
Gauri Khan
Gauri Khan (Hindi: गौरी ख़ान, Urdu: گوری خان, Punjabi: ਗੌਰੀ ਖ਼ਾਨ) (born Gauri Chibber on 8 October 1970) is an Indian movie producer and the wife of Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan. Gauri Khan is a Hindu of Punjabi Mohyal origin, born in New Delhi,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1970 (age 39 years)
Juul Haalmeyer
Juul Haalmeyer is a costume designer, best known for doing costume design on several iterations of SCTV. In addition, he was the "leader" of the Juul Haalmeyer Dancers, a woefully inept troupe of variety show dancers made up mostly of writers and...
William Travilla
William Travilla (March 22, 1920 - November 2, 1990), who went by the professional name of Travilla, was an American costume designer for theatre, film, and television. He is perhaps best-known for dressing Marilyn Monroe in eight of her films....
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1920
Date of death:
- Nov 2, 1990 (age 70 years)
Arlington Valles
Born as Fred Valles, this Hollywood costume designer took the more grandiose name Arlington Valles (1886 - 1970) as his professional handle, eventually jettisoning the "Arlington" part completely. He first provided costumes for the 1938 version of A...
Date of birth:
- 1886
Date of death:
- 1970 (age 84 years)
Bhanu Athaiya
Bhanu Athaiya née Rajopadhye (Marathi: भानु अथैय्या) (28 April 1926-) is Indian cinema's most well-regarded costume designer, having worked in over 100 films, since 1950s, with noted filmmakers like Guru Dutt, Yash Chopra, Raj Kapoor, Ashutosh...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1926 (age 83 years)
Tony Walton
Tony Walton (born Anthony John Walton, 24 October 1934) is an English Oscar, Tony, Emmy, and Drama Desk Award-winning set and costume designer.
Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. He began his career in 1948 with the stage design for Noel...
Date of birth:
- Oct 24, 1934 (age 75 years)
Alison Garrigan
Alison Garrigan aka Alison Hernan (born September 1958) is an American actor, singer, and costume designer, the daughter of actors Jonathan and Jo Farwell. She is well-known for playing both male and female roles.
She has performed in gothic...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1958 (age 51 years)
Milena Canonero
Milena Canonero (born c. 1946) is an Italian three-time Academy Award winning costume designer. She has been nominated eight times for her work in film.
Born in Turin, Italy, Canonero studied art, design history and costume design in Genoa. She then...
Date of birth:
- 1946 (age 64 years)
Moss Mabry
Moss Mabry was a famed Costume designer who lived from (1918 - 2006). He started off designing costumes for his high school plays, but actually studied mechanical engineering at the University of Florida. He later went to Hollywood to attend art...
Date of birth:
- 1918
Date of death:
- 2006 (age 88 years)
Michael Curry
Michael Curry is an American production designer who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is also the owner and President of Michael Curry Design Inc. in Scappoose, Oregon, which was started in 1986.
Curry works widely in technical development with such...
Natalie Hays Hammond
Heiress Natalie Hays Hammond (1904-1985) was the daughter of millionaire adventurer and philanthropist John Hays Hammond and was, in her own right, a painter, Broadway set and costume designer, author, and patron of the arts.
Her former home in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1904
Date of death:
- 1985 (age 81 years)
Kenny Ho
Kenny Ho is a stylist and costume designer. He is the stylist to celebrities including the Spice Girls and Westlife.
He is currently working as a judge on Wannabe, searching for an alternative Spice Girl pop band.
Kenny Ho studied costume design at...
Carlo Poggioli
Carlo Poggioli is a costume designer.
Jennifer Butler
Jennifer Butler (born May 11, 1966) is an award-nominated costume designer. She is best known for being the former wife of actor Bill Murray.
Butler has worked as a costume designer for films such as:
Butler was nominated for a Saturn Award in 1994...
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1966 (age 43 years)
Van Smith
Van Smith (born Walter Avant Smith Jr., August 17, 1945 in Marianna, Florida - December 5, 2006 Marianna, Florida) was an American costume designer and make-up artist. He worked primarily in the films of John Waters, designing the costumes and make...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1945
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 2006 (age 61 years)
Lindy Hemming
Lindy Hemming is a Welsh costume designer, who won the Academy Award for Costume Design for Topsy-Turvy (1999). After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she designed costumes for productions at West End theatres, the Royal Shakespeare...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1948 (age 61 years)
Nitish Roy
Nitish Roy is an Indian film art director, production designer, and costume designer in Hindi cinema, who is known for his work with art cinema directors, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and Govind Nihlani, Hindi mainstream cinema, directors like Rajkumar...
Raoul Pene Du Bois
Raoul Pene Du Bois (29 November 1914 – 1 January 1985) was an American costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.
Du Bois was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:
Date of birth:
- Nov 29, 1914
Date of death:
- Jan 1, 1985 (age 70 years)
Veniero Colasanti
Veniero Colasanti (21 July 1910 – 3 June 1996) was an Italian costume designer, set decorator and art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film El Cid.
During the 1960s and 1970s he also worked...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1910 (age 99 years)
Antoni Clavé
Antoni Clavé (5 April 1913 – 1 September 2005) was a Spanish master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1913
Date of death:
- Sep 1, 2005 (age 92 years)
John Truscott
John Truscott (23 February 1936 – 5 September 1993) was an Australian actor, production designer and costume designer. He won two Academy Awards for his work on the 1967 film Camelot.
In the 1980s he was brought in to complete the interior designs...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1936
Date of death:
- Sep 5, 1993 (age 57 years)
Marcel Vertès
Marcel Vertès (10 August 1895 – 31 October 1961) was a Hungarian costume designer. He won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge.
Vertès is also responsible for the original murals...
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1895
Date of death:
- Oct 31, 1961 (age 66 years)
Deborah Hopper
Deborah Ann Hopper is a costume designer who has collaborated with Clint Eastwood on 16 films over the last 20 years.
Hopper started her career as a costume designer for opera and ballet productions. She has been working in film since 1983.
Hopper...
Anthony Ward
Anthony Ward is an award-winning British set and costume designer who has designed many of the most high-profile and successful plays and musicals of the last few years. Currently his productions include the major revival of Oliver! at the Theatre...
Rosalea Krakovski-Jughashvili
Rosalea Krakovski-Jughashvili (Russian Роза Краковски) (born February 15, 1984) is a Russian-American scientist. She claims to be a descendant of Joseph Stalin, former totalitarian dictator of the [[USSR].
Rosalea was born in Cambridge, United...
Susan Matheson
Susan Matheson is a costume designer who designed costumes for the films The Kingdom, Friday Night Lights, Blue Crush,, Crazy/Beautiful, Honey, Panic and Best Laid Plans. She has designed three movies starring Will Ferrell - Step Brothers, Semi-Pro...
Marilyn Vance
Marilyn Vance is an award-winning American costume designer and a filmmaker who produced films with E! Entertainment founder Alan Mruvka.
Born Marilyn Kay Straker, she was once married to Kenny Vance of Jay and the Americans. She divorced from Vance...
April Ferry
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1932 (age 77 years)
