List of costume designers

Last updated March 29, 2025

Costume designers are a handful of artistic designers, whose personal and artistic choices determine the outcome of the overall visual look of a stage, film or television production.

Theater

Willy Clarkson who designed costumes for London's West End theatre
Theoni V. Aldredge: Annie , Barnum , A Chorus Line
Bob Mackie: On the Town
Desmond Heeley: Brigadoon
Julie Taymor: The Lion King
Gregg Barnes: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Ann Roth: Assassins
Jane Greenwood: The Scarlet Pimpernel , Once Upon a Mattress
Santo Loquasto: Fosse , Ragtime
Susan Hilferty: Wicked , Spring Awakening
Ann Curtis: Jekyll & Hyde
William Ivey Long: The Producers , Chicago
Ann Hould-Ward: Beauty and the Beast , Dance of the Vampires
Willa Kim: The Will Rogers Follies
Jennifer von Mayrhauser: Rabbit Hole , Talley's Folly , The Heidi Chronicles
Gregory Gale: Urinetown , The Wedding Singer
Valentina: The Philadelphia Story
Toni-Leslie James: Jelly's Last Jam , Footloose
Tim Hatley: Spamalot , Shrek
Hayden Ng who designed costumes for many Singapore's Theatre Productions.
Eiko Ishioka: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Georg Weissacher: Worse Than Family"

Film and television

Colleen Atwood: Chicago , Memoirs of a Geisha , Alice in Wonderland
Cecil Beaton: My Fair Lady , Gigi
Jenny Beavan: Howards End , Sense and Sensibility
Kelly-Anne Bonieux: North of Albany , Richelieu , Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Milena Canonero: A Clockwork Orange , The Godfather Part III , Marie Antoinette
Ruth E Carter: Black Panther, Selma, The Butler, Sparkle, Bamboozled, Rosewood, Crooklyn, What's Love Got to Do With It, Do the Right Thing, School Daze
Oleg Cassini: The Razor's Edge , The Ghost and Mrs. Muir , The Mating Season
Phyllis Dalton: Doctor Zhivago , The Princess Bride , Oliver!
Ngila Dickson: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , The Last Samurai
Danilo Donati: Romeo and Juliet
James Galanos: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad , Never Wave at a WAC, Ginger in the Morning
Adrian Greenburg: The Wizard of Oz , Marie Antoinette
Julie Harris: Darling , A Hard Day's Night , Goodbye, Mr. Chips , The Slipper and the Rose
Edith Head: Sabrina , The Sting , Lady in the Dark , The Emperor Waltz , The Hurricane
Dorothy Jeakins: The Sound of Music
Orry-Kelly: An American in Paris , Some Like It Hot , Gypsy
Jean Louis: From Here to Eternity
Deborah Nadoolman: Raiders of the Lost Ark , The Three Amigos , Michael Jackson's Thriller
Walter Plunkett: Gone with the Wind , Singin' in the Rain
Sandy Powell: The Wings of the Dove , Shakespeare in Love
Ann Roth: The English Patient
Kazuhiro Sawataishi: 13 Assassins
Irene Sharaff: Call Me Madam , Guys and Dolls
William Travilla: How to Marry a Millionaire
Theadora van Runkle: Bonnie and Clyde
Jennifer von Mayrhauser: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle , The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Hazel Webb-Crozier: Mickybo and Me , Closing the Ring , Your Highness
Jean-Pierre Dorleac: Somewhere in Time , The Blue Lagoon , Battlestar Galactica , Buck Rogers in the 25th Century , Heart and Souls , Quantum Leap
Neeta Lulla: Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya
Bhanu Athaiya: Gandhi, Pyaasa , C.I.D. (won Oscar for Gandhi)
Manish Malhotra: Tashan
Niharika Khan: Bhootnath , The Dirty Picture , Karthik Calling Karthik
Dolly Ahluwalia: Bajatey Raho , Bhaag Milkha Bhaag , Love Aaj Kal
Anaita Shroff Adajania: Love Aaj Kal, Dhoom 2
Simple Kapadia: Rudaali
Karan Johar: Kal Ho Naa Ho , Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
Bibi Russell: Mrittika Maya
Kanak Chapa Chakma: Jonakir Alo
Wahida Mollick Jolly: Mrittika Maya
Shimul Yusuf: Guerrilla

Theatre and Opera

Madeleine Boyd: Pelléas et Mélisande , Orfeo ed Euridice , La Gazzetta , Partenope , Peter Grimes , La scala di seta
Tilly Grimes, theatre, opera, and film

Others

Calico Cooper: Designed costumes for Alice Cooper tours, and currently designs for her performances in the band Beasto Blanco
India Ferrah
Steve Summers: Costume designer for Dolly Parton

External links

Costume Designers Guild

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