Arianne Phillips

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Arianne Phillips (born April 26, 1963)[1] is an American costume designer. Her accolades include a Costume Designers Guild Award, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and a Tony Award.

Born (1963-04-26) April 26, 1963 (age 63)[1]
OccupationCostume designer
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Arianne Phillips
Born (1963-04-26) April 26, 1963 (age 63)[1]
OccupationCostume designer
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Early life and career

Phillips was raised in northern California and began making fashion sketches as a child. She relocated to New York in the early 1980s where she began working as an assistant stylist. She was initially recognized for helping to style Lenny Kravitz for his debut album, Let Love Rule.[2]

Career

Phillips was recognized for her work on the Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, starring Neil Patrick Harris, earning her a Tony award nomination for Best Costume Design. Phillips has a long-standing relationship with Madonna, with collaborations including photos shoots, music videos and designing tour costumes for six world tours over the past two decades. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design three times, for James Mangold's Walk the Line (2005), Madonna's directorial debut, W.E. (2011), and for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). Phillips has also received a three BAFTA Award nominations for Tom Ford’s A Single Man (2009), Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and James Mangold's A Complete Unknown.[citation needed]

Her film career also includes Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals (2016), Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), James Mangold’s Girl, Interrupted (1999) and 3:10 to Yuma (2007), John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig And the Angry Inch (2001), Mark Romanek’s One Hour Photo (2002), and Milos Forman’s The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996).

In between film and music projects, Phillips works as a freelance fashion editor and stylist, collaborating with photographers for publications such as Italian Vogue, V Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, German & Spanish Vogue and W Magazine. She continuously challenges herself by taking on projects that explore new expressions of her creativity. In 2018, she made her New York City Metropolitan opera debut, designing Nico Muhly’s opera, Marnie.[3][citation needed]

Miuccia Prada selected Phillips for her Iconoclasts project;[4] to curate installations for the brands flagship stores in London and Beijing which included a short fashion film for the brand, which Phillips wrote and directed, called Passages. Her friend Alessandro Michele Creative Director of GUCCI commissioned her to create content for a special issue of A Magazine he guest edited and to style a brand film directed by Gia Coppola. She has also collaborated on special projects with Van Cleef and Arpels, Cartier, Valentino and Swarovski. Phillips was an inaugural member of the TIMES UP coalition and was asked by Reese Witherspoon to design its logo.[citation needed]

Filmography

Theatre

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Year Production Venue Notes
2014 Hedwig and the Angry Inch Belasco Theatre Broadway
2017 Marnie English National Opera Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera as a co-production with the ENO
Premiered at the ENO in November 2017
2018 Head Over Heels Hudson Theatre Broadway
Marnie Metropolitan Opera Transferred to the Met in October 2018
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Awards and nominations

Major associations

Academy Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2006 Best Costume Design Walk the Line Nominated [5]
2012 W.E. Nominated [6]
2020 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Nominated [7]
2025 A Complete Unknown Nominated [8]
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BAFTA Awards

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Tony Awards

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Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2014 Best Costume Design in a Musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch Nominated [12]
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Miscellaneous awards
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List of Arianne Phillips other awards and nominations
Award Year[a] Category Title Result Ref.
Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards 2020 Best Costume Design Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Nominated [13]
Capri Hollywood International Film Festival 2020 Best Costume Design Won [14]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2019 Best Costume Design Nominated [15]
Costume Designers Guild Awards 2002 Excellence in Period/Fantasy Film Hedwig and the Angry Inch Nominated [16]
2006 Excellence in Period Film Walk the Line Nominated [17]
2008 3:10 to Yuma Nominated [18]
2012 W.E. Won [19]
2016 Excellence in Contemporary Film Kingsman: The Secret Service Nominated [20]
2017 Nocturnal Animals Nominated [21]
2018 Kingsman: The Golden Circle Nominated [22]
2020 Excellence in Period Film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Nominated [23]
2023 Don't Worry Darling Nominated [24]
Critics' Choice Awards 2020 Best Costume Design Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Nominated [25]
Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards 2024 Costume Design A Complete Unknown Won [26]
London Film Critics' Circle Awards 2025 Technical Achievement Award Nominated [27]
Newport Beach Film Festival 2024 Creative Visionary Award A Complete Unknown and Joker: Folie à Deux Won [28]
Outer Critics Circle Awards 2019 Outstanding Costume Design Head Over Heels Nominated [29]
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2019 Best Costume Design Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Nominated [30]
Saturn Awards 1995 Best Costume Design The Crow Nominated [31]
2016 Kingsman: The Secret Service Nominated [32]
2021 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Nominated [33]
Seattle Film Critics Society Awards 2019 Best Costume Design Nominated [34]
Venice Film Festival 2022 Campari Passion for Film Award N/a Honored [35]
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Notes

  1. Indicates the year of ceremony. Each year is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.

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