Film costumer designer

Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 – October 23, 1957), was an influential French fashion designer, probably best known as the founder of world's top fashion house Dior.He was born in Granville, Manche, Normandy, France. Dior flagship boutiques are found in Paris, Milan,...

Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an America costume design who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered her more Academy Awards than any other woman in history. She was born Edith Claire Posener in San Bernardino, California, the daughter of...

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....

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...

Mike Jittlov (born June 8, 1948) is an American animator and the creator of short films and one feature length movie using forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation. He is best known for the 1987 feature The Wizard...

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...

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...

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...

Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthauldt, October 5, 1907, Paris, France - April 20, 1997, Palm Springs, California, USA) was a French costume designer and multiple Academy Award nominee in Costume Design. His most famous works include Rita Hayworth's black satin...

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...

Kay Nelson was a Hollywood costume designer whose first film was Up in Mabel's Room in 1944. Over the next 17 years she provided the costumes for such films as Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Boomerang, Miracle on 34th Street and Gentleman's Agreement (all 1947) and A...

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...

Ruth E. Carter is an African-American costume design best known for her two Academy Award nominated films Malcolm X and Amistad Other films include: Carter, Ruth E.

Costume designer Helen Rose (1904 - 1985) spent the bulk of her career with MGM where she clothed the stars of 200 films. A native of Chicago, she began designing nightclub and stage costumes at age 15. She also costumed for an ice show before moving to Hollywood in...

Costume designer Herschel McCoy (1912 - 1956) first began designing costumes for Hollywood films in 1936. His early efforts were largely focussed on B movies, such as several entries in the Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto canons. He had just graduated to big studio...