- 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". - 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. - 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), … - 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. - Jay Maynard
Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his electroluminiscent Tron Guy costume. He became an Internet phenomenon when his costume inspired by the movie "TRON" spread across the net from postings on Slashdot and Fark. Jay's overweight physique and skintight costume was the subject of much derision on the net. - William Wegman
William Wegman (b. 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses. - Doug Henning
Doug James Henning (born May 3, 1947 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, died February 7, 2000 of liver disease) was a Canadian magician, illusionist, and escape artist. He is credited with reviving the magic show as a form of mass entertainment in North America, beginning in the 1970s. Henning changed the image of the stage magician when he rejected such stereotypical costume accessories as the tuxedo, top hat, thin moustache, goatee, jazz hands and short hair. - Norman Norell
Norman Norell (born Norman David Levinson April 20, 1900 in Noblesville, Indiana - died in New York, October 25, 1972) was an American fashion designer, known for his elegant suits and tailored silhouettes. The son of a haberdasher, from early childhood Norell had an ambition to become an artist. After spending a short period at military school during World War I, he studied fashion design at the Pratt Institute. - Jo Mielziner
Jo Mielziner (1901-1976) was an American theatrical scenic, costume, and lighting designer born in Paris, France. He is considered one of the most influential theatre designers of the 20th century, designing the scenery and often the lighting for over 200 productions, many of which became American classics. His Broadway debut was in 1924 with "The Guardsman", in which he designed the scenery and lighting. - Ezio Frigerio
Ezio Frigerio (Erba, Milan, 1930) is an Italian costume designer and art director. After finishing architecture studies, he approached theatre art by realising the costumes for "Casa di Bambola" and "L'Opera da 3 Soldi", two shows directed by Giorgio Strehler at Piccolo Teatro in 1955-56 theatre seasons. From then on a fertile artistic marriage started between art director and producer, setting up several unique shows as "I Giganti della Montagna" (1966), … - Alain Cuny
Alain Cuny was a French actor. He was born in Saint-Malo, Brittany, and studied medicine for a while before entering the film industry as a costume and set designer. He started acting in the 1930s. Among his most notable films are "Les Visiteurs du soir" (1942), by Marcel Carné, and "La dolce vita" (1960) and "Satyricon" (1969), both by Federico Fellini. Later in his career he had a role in the controversial soft porn film "Emmanuelle" (1974). - Constanza Romero
Constanza Romero (born 1958) is an American artist and theater designer who lives in Seattle, Washington. Romero's parents divorced in 1969, when she was 11. Her mother found a teaching job in Fresno, California, and moved there with Romero and her younger sister and two younger brothers. In 1972 her mother died of breast cancer, and the four children went to live with a maternal aunt and uncle near Fresno. - Jacques Doucet
Jacques Doucet (1853 - 1929) was a French fashion designer, known for his elegant dresses, made with flimy translucent materials in superimposing pastel colors. He was born in Paris in 1853 to a prosperous family whose lingerie and fine linens business, Doucet Lingerie, had flourushed in the Rue de la Paix since 1816. In 1871, Doucet opened a salon selling ladies apparel. An enthusiastic collector of eighteenth-century furniture, objets d'art, paintings and sculptures, … - Sal The Stockbroker
Salvatore "Sal the Stockbroker" Governale (born October 24, 1968) is an American radio personality who currently works as a writer on "The Howard Stern Show". He previously worked for brokerage firms (hence his nickname), while frequently calling Stern's show. Sal established himself by harassing Stern producer Gary Dell'Abate. - Liviu Ciulei
Liviu Ciulei (b. July 7, 1923) is a Romanian theater and film director, as well as actor, architect, educator, costume and set designer. During a career spanning over 50 years, he has had a seminal influence on Romanian cinema and theater. Known for his daring theatrical interpretations, he has distinctively marked the area of performing arts inside his country and abroad. - Barry Kay
Barry Kay, trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, was a stage and costume designer. In the course of his career, lasting almost four decades, he designed for the ballet, drama and opera alike, working with established directors and choreographers at major theatres and opera houses and their companies worldwide. Kay's emphasis, however, lay in pioneering three-dimensional stage set designs for the ballet. - Ralph Cirella
Ralph Cirella (born April 20, 1965) serves as a stylist to radio host Howard Stern and briefly co-hosted Howard 100's "The Friday Show" (now cancelled) with Gary Dell'Abate and Jon Hein on Sirius Satellite Radio. He has also appeared on Stern's television show, for which he designs the sets. Cirella was a caller and avid listener of Stern's show in the early to mid-1980s. He has claimed that he was a regular caller when Stern was still on WNBC in New York City. - Marie Sallé
Marie Sallé was a French dancer and choreographer known for her expressive, dramatic performances rather than a series of "leaps and frolics" typical of ballet of her time. As a choreographer she integrated music, costumes, and dance styles of her ballets with their themes, thereby anticipating the reforms made by choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre in the late 18th century. - Charles Hamilton Smith
Charles Hamilton Smith was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier and spy. His military career began in 1787 when he studied at the Austrian academy for artillery and engineers at Mechelen and Leuven in Belgium. Although his military service, which ended in 1820 and included the Napoleonic Wars, saw him travel extensively (including the West Indies, Canada and United States), much of the time saw him at a desk job in Britain. - Daisuke Enomoto
Daisuke Enomoto ("Enomoto Daisuke", born April 22, 1971, nicknamed "Dice-K") is a Japanese businessman and former livedoor executive who hoped to become the fourth space tourist. He had trained at Star City, Moscow in Russia to fly with two members of Expedition 14 on board Soyuz TMA-9, which was launched on September 18, 2006. - Eugenio Tavolara
Eugenio Tavolara (1901, Sassari-1963) was an artist born in Sardinia, Italy, with interests in many disciplines. He is well known for his hand-crafted "toys", most prominently small statues in terracotta representing Sardinians in traditional costumes. - Paul Barrett-Brown
Paul Barrett-Brown runs a freelance business to create rubber masks and costumes for the film industry. He has contributed to major motion pictures over the last 15 years, e.g. "Batman", "Batman Returns", "Batman Forever", "Back to the Future Part II", "The Fifth Element" and "Seed of Chucky". - 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, Victoria, Australia as the daughter of a Texan naval petty officer who came ashore in Melbourne and met her mother, a Melbourne schoolteacher. Her father, Robert, later worked in advertising after marrying her mother, June. - Cheryl Sarate
Cheryl Sarate was a college freshman in the Philippines who burned to death when her costume caught fire during a college beauty pageant. The tragedy dominated headlines for many months in the Philippines media and engendered much discussion and controversy over issues of safety, responsibility, and liability. - José Marroquín
José Trinidad "Pipo" Marroquín Leal was a clown that appeared on a television show on Channel 2 in Monterrey, Mexico. He was considered one of the most loved TV personalities in Monterrey for several generations. His costume consisted of orange hair, oversized shoes, and a round, red "pip-pip" nose. His show aired daily and featured short "aventuritas" (little adventures) often written by him and "Professor Pilocho". - Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot
Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot was a French painter, mainly of genre scenes. A native of Paris, she began studies with Guillaume Lethière, a popular history painter and family friend, at the age of seven; when he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome in 1807, she followed him, arriving in 1808 and remaining there until 1816. There she depicted the customs and costumes of Italian peasants in great detail. - Alfred Richard Allinson
Alfred Richard Allinson was a nineteenth and twentieth century British academic, author, and voluminous translator of continental European literature (mostly French, but occasionally Latin, German and Russian) into English. He attended Oxford University, from which he took a Master of Arts degree. After graduation he worked as an assistant school master and a librarian. He was also a meteorological hobbyist. - Monique St. Pierre
Monique St. Pierre (born 25 November 1953 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a German-born American model and actress. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for is November 1978 issue and the 1979 Playmate of the Year. Her original centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Monique, who spoke English, German and French, had signed with the Wilhelmina modeling agency right before she was a Playmate, but was fired soon after her first pictorial was published. - 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. - August Diehl
August Diehl (born January 4, 1976, Berlin) is a German actor. His father is actor Hans Diehl, his mother is a costume designer and his brother is a composer. Diehl is married to actress Julia Malik. - 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, … - Aleksandra Ekster
Alexandra Ekster or Exter was a Russian-Ukrainian painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist), designer, and one of the founders of Art Deco. - Romain de Tirtoff
Romain de Tirtoff was a Russian born, French artist and designer. Tirtoff was born as Roman Petrov de Tyrtov (Роман Петрович Тыртов) in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire in a very distinguished family with roots traced back to 1548. His father Pyotr Ivanovich de Tyrtov was a Fleet Admiral. In 1910-1912 Romain moved to Paris to pursue a career as a designer. This decision was made over strong objections of his father, … - Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall (born Ralph Pierre LaCock, March 30, circa 1927, Huntington, West Virginia) is an actor, singer and television personality. Although he has almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits, he is best known as the original host and "The Master" of "The Hollywood Squares" from 1966 to 1981. His stage name, Marshall, came from the name of the college in his home town (Marshall College became Marshall University in 1961). - 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. - Natalia Goncharova
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (June 4, 1881 - October 17, 1962) was a prominent Russian avant-garde artist (Cubo-Futurism), painter and costume designer. Her Great aunt was Natalia Pushkina, wife of the poet Alexander Pushkin - Baby Marie
Baby Marie Osborne (born November 5, 1911 as Helen Alice Myres, Denver, Colorado) was the first major child star of silent films and American films. She was usually billed as Baby Marie Osborne, but was often billed simply Baby Marie. Osborne made her film debut at age three in 1914's "Kidnapped in New York". By age five she was starring in films, including her most famous movie, 1916's "Little Mary Sunshine", … - Pegah Anvarian
Pegah Anvarian is a Los Angeles-based fashion designer. She is designer of the Pegah Anvarian Collection. Anvarian grew up in Richardson, Texas (a suburb of Dallas), the daughter of a photographer father and educator mother, who taught her how to sew at the age of six. Her family encouraged creativity in the home, prompting Anvarian to design her own clothes from age eight. In 1996 she moved to New York City and began assisting as a costume designer and stylist. - 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. - Carlo Bocchio
Carlo Bocchio know as JackOilRain (born March 25, 1974) is an Italian illustrator and comic book artist (Heavy Metal). His style was strongly influenced by Simon Bisley, Justin Sweet, and by costume designer Bob Ringwood. His paintings have been published in the World of Warcraft role-playing game and on collectible card game such as A Game of Thrones, Call of Cthulhu, Runebound (Fantasy Flight Games), …
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