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Londoner, Sandy, studied at St Martins School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design where she specialised in theatre design, She started her professional career in fringe with the National Theatre working on numerous productions including Orders of Obedience and Rococo, She went on to design sets and costumes for productions of Lumiere and Son, Bright Side and Culture Vulture, As a student and one of the leading lights of the international theatre scene she most admired was Lindsay Kemp, the gifted director, designer and performer, On impulse she spoke to him on the phone and said how much she wanted to work with him, After seeing samples of her work he asked her to join him in Milan as costume designer for his theatre company, During her 3 year spell with him she worked on Nijinsky which was a study of the start and madness of the great Russian dancer, She also designed the costumes for The Big Parade, a tragic- comic homage to the silent screen, and the stage and screen versions of A Midsummer Nights Dream, In 1985 she rapidly established herself in the world of video working on many pop promos with director Derek Jarman and with him on his film Caravaggio, and Zenith's For Queen and Country- Costume Designer
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The brilliant and talented Walter Plunkett was born June 5, 1902, to James and Frances Plunkett of Oakland, California. He studied law at the University of California, but was hardly as interested in becoming an attorney as he was in his involvement with the campus' theatrical group. Making the quick change in careers, Walter moved to New York in 1923, where he began work as an actor, as well as a costume and set designer, on the stage. He drifted through the gay circles of Greenwich Village and was referred to Hollywood. He moved back to California, this time to the movie capital, and found work as an extra. He can be spotted dancing with Irene, another future top designer, in Erich von Stroheim's The Merry Widow (1925). In 1927, Walter's first (credited) work as a costume designer first appeared on screen for Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927). During the late twenties and early thirties, while working at RKO, Plunkett managed to fashion the enormous costume and wardrobe department into a department that was both efficient and creative. With so much free reign, Walter set about creating outstanding costumes that rivaled the work of his contemporaries, such as Travis Banton and Adrian. His two best-known films were Gone with the Wind (1939) (including that dress made from green velvet drapes, probably the most famous movie costume of all time), and Singin' in the Rain (1952), in which he lampooned the very style his work had begun in (the roaring 20s). Walter was well-liked by most people for his generous and easy-going nature, as well as his inventiveness and ingenuity. Walter retired from films and spent the last years of his life with his partner Lee. He died in 1982, leaving Lee his estate.- Costume Designer
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Colleen Atwood was born on 25 September 1948 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA. She is a costume designer, known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Chicago (2002).- Costume Designer
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Sue Blane studied costume design at Wolverhampton College of Art and Central School of Art and Design, finishing in 1971. She went to work for the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, where she designed the costumes for Lindsay Kemp's production of The Maids in 1971, starring Tim Curry as Solange, wearing a black corset. She met director Jim Sharman in London in 1973, when he was looking for a costume designer for Richard O'Brien's new, low-budget musical The Rocky Horror Show at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs. Won over by Sharman's desperation, and pleased to be working with Tim Curry again, she borrowed Curry's corset from the Citizen's Theatre, glued on sequins, and created Frank-n-Furter's look and those of the other characters. Blane designed the Los Angeles (Roxy), Australia and 1975 Broadway productions of the play, as well as The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and its sequel Shock Treatment (1981). Blane became a respected London theatre costume designer, with occasional forays into film and TV.- Costume Designer
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Alexandra Byrne was born in 1962. She is a costume designer, known for Emma. (2020), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Doctor Strange (2016). She has been married to Simon Shepherd since 1980. They have four children.- Costume Designer
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Jany Temime was born in France. She is known for Skyfall (2012), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) and Judy (2019).- Costume Designer
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Gabriella Pescucci was born in Rosignano Solvay in Tuscany in 1943 and began her film career as an assistant to Piero Tosi in the late 1960s. By the 1970s she was working as a costume designer in her own right with several films for Giovanni Patroni Griffi and also for Fellini, making her international debut in 1984 with 'Once Upon a Time in America', for which she took the first of her two British Film Academy Awards, the second being for 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'. In addition to her film work she has designed for the opera, notably 'La Traviata' at the Archimboldi Theatre, Milan and 'A Masked Ball' at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C.- Costume Designer
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Trisha Biggar was born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).- Costume Designer
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Milena Canonero grew up in Genoa. She studied design and costume in Genoa before moving to England to finish her studies. Milena's film career started with Stanley Kubrick, designing the costumes for three of his films: Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), winning her first of her four academy awards, and The Shining (1980). Milena has worked with Alan Parker, Midnight Express (1978), Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire (1981) her second Oscar. Francis F. Coppola, Cotton Club (1984), Godfather III (1990), Sydney Pollock, Out of Africa (1985), Louis Malle, Damage (1992), Warren Beatty, Dick Tracy (1990) and Bulworth (1998) Julie Taymor, Titus (1999) Roman Polanski, Carnage (2011), and the legendary director, Manoel De Oliveira, Belle Toujours (2006), Sofia Coppola, Marie Antoinette (2006) brought her third Oscar. She has also production designed Barbet Schroeder's Single White Female (1992) and Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli's Last Summer 2014 and designed costumes for opera productions at La Scala, The Vienna opera House, The Metropolitan Opera and the Garnier Opera de Paris. She was also a producer on Romeo and Juliet (2013). Canonero has collaborated with Wes Anderson on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) winning her fourth Oscar.- Costume Designer
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Eiko Ishioka was born on 12 July 1938 in Tokyo, Japan. She was a costume designer and director, known for Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Cell (2000) and The Fall (2006). She was married to Nico Soultanakis. She died on 21 January 2012 in Tokyo, Japan.- Costume Designer
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Judianna was born on August 24, 1955. As a child she joined the Metropolitan Opera ballet and children's chorus but was always more interested in what went on backstage to produce a show. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago and Yale Drama School she worked as an assistant to Jane Greenwood, the English designer who had been one of her teachers at Yale and who introduced her to Milena Canonero. She became Milena's assistant designer on 'The Cotton Club' and 'Dick Tracy' and worked as an associate and co-designer before becoming a credited costume designer in her own right on the films 'Gardens of Stone' and 'Big'. She has been associated with two of the most profitable and enjoyed franchises of the early 21st century with the Harry Potter films and the Hunger Games adaptations the latter, reuniting her with 'Big's writer Gary Ross.- Costume Designer
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Mary Zophres was born on 23 March 1964 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. She is a costume designer, known for La La Land (2016), Babylon (2022) and Hail, Caesar! (2016). She has been married to Murray Valeriano since 9 March 2006.- Costume Designer
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Aggie Guerard Rodgers was born on 26 December 1943 in California, USA. She is a costume designer, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Rent (2005) and The Color Purple (1985). She has been married to Peter Buckley Laxton since 29 June 1980. They have two children. She was previously married to David Rodgers.- Costume Designer
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Penny Rose was born in July 1950 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is a costume designer, known for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Evita (1996).- Costume Designer
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She studied stage management and design at RADA and on graduation began in London's Fringe Theatre, the Open Space Theatre and Hampstead Theatre Club. This all led to West End productions, and commissions from The Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre.. She was recruited by London Weekend Television to work on their productions until in 1983, having built up a good reputation, she began working in feature films working on 'Loose Connections' and 'Laughterhouse' for Richard Eyre. and 'High Hopes'' and 'Naked' for Mike Leigh and . 'Life is Sweet' and 'My Beautiful Laundrette ' for Stephen Frears.- Costume Designer
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Deborah L. Scott was born in 1954. She is known for Titanic (1997), Minority Report (2002) and Avatar (2009). She is married to Tim Suhrstedt.- Costume Designer
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Best-known for her costume design work on HBO's hit series, Deadwood (2004), award-winning costume designer Janie Bryant has been obsessed with fashion and design since her childhood spent in Cleveland, Tennessee. By age six, she was creating breathtaking outfits for her dolls out of her mother's old aprons and scavenged socks from the family's laundry basket.
She merged her love of fashion and design with a natural talent for drawing and painting, which she nurtured while attending Georgia State University, where she studied art and then moved on to the American College of the Applied Arts, where she continued to pursue her love of fashion design. Upon graduating Cum Laude, she moved to Paris and then to New York, where she worked closely with fashion designer John Scher. With a few commercials and films under her belt, she headed west to Los Angeles.
Ironically, one of her first jobs in Los Angeles took her back to New York, working on David Milch's television series, Big Apple (2001). Her collaboration with Milch continued two years later when he asked Janie to design his new HBO project, Deadwood (2004). Janie took to the challenge with verve and the cutting edge series has taken off - In 2005, both the series and Janie took home Emmys.- Costume Designer
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Mona May was born in India. She is known for Enchanted (2007), 8MM (1999) and The Wedding Singer (1998).- Costume Designer
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Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh is known for Love & Friendship (2016), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) and Becoming Jane (2007).- Costume Designer
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Michele Clapton is known for Game of Thrones (2011), Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) and The Crown (2016).- Costume Designer
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Michael Kaplan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Armageddon (1998), Blade Runner (1982) and Star Trek (2009).- Special Effects
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Richard Taylor is known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), King Kong (2005) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).- Costume Designer
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Ngila Dickson was born in 1958 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is a costume designer and actress, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). She is married to Hamish Keith.- Costume Designer
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Debra McGuire is known for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Idiocracy (2006) and Game Night (2018).- Producer
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Catherine Martin was born on 26 January 1965 in Lindfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is a producer and costume designer, known for Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Great Gatsby (2013) and Australia (2008). She has been married to Baz Luhrmann since 26 January 1997. They have two children.- Costume Designer
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Bob Ringwood was born on 25 November 1946 in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK. He is a costume designer, known for Dune (1984), Excalibur (1981) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).- Costume Designer
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Mark Bridges was born in Niagara Falls, New York, USA. He is known for The Artist (2011), Phantom Thread (2017) and Inherent Vice (2014).- Producer
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Lou Eyrich is known for American Horror Story (2011), The Prom (2020) and American Crime Story (2016).- Costume Designer
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Jenny Beavan was born in London, England, UK. Jenny is a costume designer and actor, known for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Cruella (2021) and The King's Speech (2010). Jenny was previously married to Ian Albery.