- Edith Head
Edith Head (October 28, 1897 - October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered her more Academy Awards than any other woman in history.
- Jean Louis
Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthauldt, October 5, 1907, Paris, France - April 20, 1997, Palm Springs, California, USA) was a U.S. costume designer and multiple Academy Award nominee in Costume Design. His most famous works include Rita Hayworth's black satin strapless dress from "Gilda" (1946), Marlene Dietrich's celebrated stagewear on her cabaret world tours, as well as the sheer, sparkling gown Marilyn Monroe wore when she sang "Happy Birthday, …
- Colleen Atwood
Colleen Atwood (born 1948, Quincy, Washington) Upper Education: Cornish College of The Arts, Seattle Washington and then New York University School of Film N.Y, N.Y., is an Academy Award-winning 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 collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton and Jonathan Demme.
- Ann Roth
Ann Roth (born October 30, 1931 in Hanover, Pennsylvania) is a prolific Academy Award-winning American costume designer for films and theater. She won a Best Costume Oscar for the film "The English Patient" and was nominated for "Places in the Heart", "The Talented Mr. Ripley", and "The Hours". Her more than one hundred screen credits include "Midnight Cowboy", "Klute", "The Day of the Locust" (for which she won a BAFTA), …
- Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15 1952) is an American director of Broadway theatre and film. Taymor's work has been received many accolades from critics, and she has won several Tony Awards for her work, noted for its visual flair and colorful costuming choices.
- Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld is widely recognized as one of the more influential fashion designers of the late 20th century. He has collaborated with a variety of different fashion labels, with Chloé, Fendi and Chanel the most notable. But with contracts with companies internationally, throughout his career, he has probably built the most complicated resume of any designer. Furthermore, he has his own labels, which he launched in the early 1980s, including perfume and clothing.
- William Ivey Long
William Ivey Long is an American 5-time Tony Award-winning costume designer for mainly Broadway plays and musicals including his most notable work on The Producers, Hairspray, Nine, Crazy for You and his newest Tony-winning work on Grey Gardens. He is also currently working on the newest Mel Brooks' musical Young Frankenstein.
- Sandy Powell
Sandy Powell (born April 7, 1960) is a British costume designer who has been nominated for several Academy Awards in the 1990s and early 2000s. She won the Academy Award for Costume Design in 1999 for the film "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), and again in 2005 for "The Aviator" (2004).
- Ngila Dickson
Ngila Dickson is a New Zealand film costume designer. Her most notable work is in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", both of which were filmed in New Zealand. She and Richard Taylor won the Academy Award for Costume Design for the former film.
- Milena Canonero
Milena Canonero is a costume designer, working in film. She's a three-time Academy Award winner, having been nominated eight times. Canonero was born in Turin, Italy, and started her career in England, where her first movie work as a costume designer was in Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971). She worked again with Kubrick in "Barry Lyndon" (1975), for which she won her first Oscar, together with Ulla-Britt Søderlund.
- Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly was the professional name of John Orry Kelly (December 31, 1897 - February 27, 1964), a prolific Hollywood costume designer. Born in Kiama, New South Wales in Australia, he grew up to study art there, becoming a tailor's apprentice and window dresser in Sydney. He journeyed to New York to pursue an acting career. He shared an apartment there with Charlie Spangles and Cary Grant.
- Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini (January 20 1920 - October 31 1993) was one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th century.
- Dante Ferretti
Dante Ferretti is an Italian art director and costume designer for films. He won his first, and so far only Academy Award for "The Aviator" (2004) for Art Direction, despite seven previous nominations. His nominations were for "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", "Hamlet" (1990), "The Age of Innocence", "Interview with a Vampire", "Kundun", and "Gangs of New York". He was nominated for Best Costume Design for "Kundun".
- Michael Kaplan
Michael Kaplan is a movie costume designer. He was a nominee in the Costume Designers Guild Awards 2005 in the category of "Excellence in Costume Design for Film - Contemporary" for his costumes designed for "Mr. & Mrs. Smith". Previously he had won accolades for "Best Costume Design" by the 1983 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for his costume design work in "Blade Runner".
- Alexandra Byrne
Alexandra Byrne is an Academy Award-nominated costume designer. Despite having Costumed only six films in her career, she has managed to establish herself as one of the greatest working Costume Designers in Hollywood, earning Academy Award nominations for three of her films - "Elizabeth", "Hamlet" and "Finding Neverland" - and considerable acclaim for the other three - "Persuasion", …
- Tony Walton
Tony Walton (born Anthony John Walton, 24 October, 1934) is an English Oscar, Tony and Emmy-winning set and costume designer. Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's Broadway production of "Conversation Piece". Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s he designed for the New York and London stage.
- Santo Loquasto
Santo Loquasto, born 26 July 1944 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is a production designer, scenic designer and costume designer for theatre, musical theatre, film and more rarely television, …
- Jean-Paul Gaultier
Jean-Paul Gaultier (born April 24 1952, in Arcueil, Val-de-Marne) is a French fashion designer and past television presenter.
- Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli (born Gianfranco Corsi on February 12, 1923), is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television. Internationally, he is known for having directed the 1968 film version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" for which he was nominated to receive an Academy Award.
- Nolan Miller
Nolan Miller is a television costume designer best known for his work on the long-running 1980s series "Dynasty", its spin-off series "The Colbys" and the 1991 miniseries "Dynasty: The Reunion". He has collaborated on many projects with television producers Aaron Spelling and Douglas S. Cramer.
- Irene Sharaff
Irene Sharaff (January 23 1910 - August 10 1993) was an award-winning American costume designer.
- Catherine Martin
Catherine Martin (born January 26, 1965 Lindfield) is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.
- Walter Plunkett
Walter Plunkett (June 2, 1902 - March 8, 1982) was a costume designer in the Hollywood movie industry. Born in Oakland, California, he 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 campus' theatrical group. He moved to New York in 1923 and began work as a stage actor, as well as a costume and set designer.
- Helen Rose
Costume designer Helen Rose (1904 - 1985) spent the bulk of her career with MGM where she clothed the stars of 200 films.
- Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 - January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
- Denise Cronenberg
Denise Cronenberg is a costume designer born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the sister of the famous Canadian film director David Cronenberg and the mother of Aaron Woodley, also a filmmaker.
- Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 - July 25, 1986) was a famous Hollywood director and accomplished stage director, often considered by critics to be the father of the modern musical.
- Patrick Tatopoulos
Patrick Tatopoulos is a renowned French-American production designer. He is considered by many as a visionary, creating innovative, exciting concepts for filmed and computer generated environments. His unique designs, rich with mood, character and distinction, have appeared in numerous box office hit motion pictures, including such movies as "Underworld", "I, Robot", "The Chronicles of Riddick", "Independence Day", "Bram Stoker's Dracula", …
- Travis Banton
Travis Banton (August 18, 1894 - February 2, 1958) was the chief designer at Paramount Pictures. He is considered one of the most important Hollywood costume designers of the 1930s. He was born in Waco, Texas. Travis moved to New York City as a child. Banton was educated at Columbia University and at the Art Students League where he studied art and fashion design. An early apprenticeship with a high-society costume dressmaker earned him fame.
- Theoni V. Aldredge
Theoni V. Aldredge (born Theoni Vachlioti on August 22, 1932 in Athens, Greece) is a renowned costume designer for theatre, film, television, opera, and ballet. Aldredge received her training at the American School in Athens and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Her first Broadway assignment was designing costumes for Geraldine Page in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" in 1959; her most recent was the 2006 revival of "A Chorus Line".
- Jacqueline Durran
Jacqueline Durran is a Academy Award nominated British costume designer. She won the BAFTA award for Vera Drake. She received considerable attention for her work in Pride & Prejudice (2005 film), for which she received an Oscar nomination and won a Satellite Award.
- Hattie Carnegie
Hattie Carnegie (1889 - 1956) was a clothing and jewelry designer based in the United States during the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. She was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary as Henrietta Kanengeiser. Hattie was the second oldest of seven children. Her father was an artist and tailor and was thought have introduced her to the world of fashion. She was known for her extremely elegant dress designs and exquisite costume jewelry.
- Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier (August 21, 1885 - October 24, 1966) was a film art director. Born in Bremen, Germany, Dreier began his career in German film in 1919 and by the end of the 1920s had relocated to Hollywood. He made contributions to nearly 500 films during his lengthy career and was nominated for Academy Awards for his art direction, on 23 occasions. He won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction (Color) for "Frenchman's Creek" (1944) and "Samson and Delilah" (1950).
- Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter is an African-American costume designer best known for her two Academy Award nominated films "Malcolm X" and "Amistad" Other films include: *"Serenity" (2005) *"Four Brothers" (2005) *"Against the Ropes" (2004) *"Daddy Day Care" (2003) *"I Spy" (2002) *"Baby Boy" (2001) *"Dr.
- Charles Lemaire
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, …
- Eiko Ishioka
Eiko Ishioka is an Oscar-winning costume designer, known for her work in stage, screen, advertising, and print media. She won a 1992 Academy Award for costume design for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Ishioka’s long list of credits includes the 1985 Cannes Film Festival Award for Artistic Contribution for her production design of Paul Schrader’s film Mishima, a Tony Award nomination for the stage and costume design of the Broadway play "M.
- Emi Wada
is a renowned Japanese costume designer. She has created costumes for the Akira Kurosawa film "Ran", the Peter Greenaway film "Prospero's Books", and the Zhang Yimou films "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers". She has also designed costumes for operas, including the 2006 premiere performance of Tan Dun's "The First Emperor".
- Adrian
Adrian Adolph Greenberg, (March 3, 1903 - September 13, 1959), known mostly 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, …
- Thierry Mugler
Thierry Mugler, born 1948 in Strasbourg, France is a fashion designer, photographer, and creator of a fashion design company of the same name. While he was trained as a ballet dancer, he also studied design and created garments for friends. He moved to Paris in 1970 and worked as a window-dresser, designing clothing as a side job. He founded his label for women in 1974, and began designing for men four years later.
- Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director. He directed at least 50 films in Europe and a further hundred in the US, among the best-known being "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Angels with Dirty Faces", "Casablanca", "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "White Christmas". He thrived in the heyday of the Warner Bros. studio in the 1930s and 40s, where he gained a reputation for efficient competence, …