Film costumer designer

Adrian Adolph Greenberg (March 3, 1903 – September 13, 1959) most widely known as Adrian, was a Hollywood costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". On occasion, he was credited as Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own. Adrian was born on March 3, 1903 in...

Charles LeMaire (1897 - 1985) was an American costume designer. Despite his French sounding name, he was born in Chicago. His early career was as a vaudeville performer, but became a costume designer for the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway in 1921. By 1925 he turned to the movies. LeMaire was instrumental in persuading the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to institute a costume design Oscar. In a career spanning 37 years and nearly 300 films, he earned a total of four Academy Awards...

Jean-Paul Gaultier (born April 24 1952, in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne) is a French fashion designer and past television presenter. Gaultier never received formal training as a designer. Instead, he started sending sketches to famous couture stylists at an early age. Pierre Cardin was impressed by his talent and hired him as an assistant in 1970. His first individual collection was released in 1976 and his characteristic irreverent style dates from 1981, and he has long been known as the enfant...

Walter Plunkett (June 2, 1902 - March 8, 1982) was a prolific Academy Award-winning costume designer who worked on more than 150 projects throughout his career in the Hollywood film industry. Born in Oakland, California, Plunkett studied law at the University of California, where he was a member of the California-Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, but showed greater interest in the school's theatrical group. He moved to New York City in 1923 and began work as a stage actor as well...

Gile Steele (1908 - 1952) was a Hollywood costume designer. His career began at MGM in 1938 with one of his first assignments being the Norma Shearer film Marie Antoinette. He also worked on many of the company's prestige pictures including Pride and Prejudice and Boom Town (both 1940), Blossoms in the Dust and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (both 1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). He was one of the first nominees when the category for Best Costume Design was introduced at the Academy...

Irene born Irene Lentz and also known as Irene Gibbons, (8 December 1900 - 15 November 1962) was a costume designer. Her work as a clothing designer in Los Angeles led to her career as a costume designer for films in the 1930s. Born in Baker, Montana, Lentz started out as an actress under her birth name, appearing in secondary roles in silent film beginning with Keystone Studios in 1921. She was directed in her first film by F. Richard Jones and the two eventually began a relationship that led...