Industry magazine Backstage.com published its list of the 8 best costume design programs noting our industry- focused approach to professional training.
Backstage.com Names UC Irvine in 8 Best Costume Design Programs
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Upcycled Couture Fashion Show
UCI Costume Design partnered with the Laguna Art Museum to create a fashion show that featured the work of student, alum and faculty designers. Read an interview about it here The show was a major event in the museum’s annual Art + Nature Festival. Each designer partnered with a community organization actively involved with environmental or social justice to express that organization’s theme with a unique fashion.
LA Times Daily Pilot feature here
MFA Designer Ashley Morgan Photo by James Carbone
Best Overall Design: Alexis Jewell Brown BA ’24 partnered with Get Inspired, Inc
Best Use of Materials: Bell Hernandez BA ’27 partnered with Pacific Marine Mammal Center
Honorable Mentions: Ayrika Johnson MFA ’22 partnered with Laguna Art Museum, and Matthew Martinez MFA ’20 partnered with Boys & Girls Club
Costume Design Alum Danielle Nieves Featured Interview
Danielle is based in Seattle as a Costume Director, Freelance Designer and Curator.
Costume Alum Gwyn Conaway Publishes New Book for Animators
Listen to an interview with Gwyn
Gwyn is a concept artist, designer and costume simulation expert! Visit her website here
Read About UCI Alum Julie Carr-Shafer Costume Supervisor for Los Angeles Opera
The costumes for the LA Opera production of Cinderella featured an unusual use of the building material Tyvek.
UCI Costume Alums design the operations costumes for Disneyland’s Star Wars
Congratulations!!! to UCI Alums Brenda Mercure and Joe Kucharski for their ground breaking work for Disneyland Park’s ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’. Click the link to read an in-depth discussion of the process.
