Nina Chermak Rosenberg

Rosenberg was born in 1958/59^[1] in Beaver, Pennsylvania, where she was raised in a family of eight.^[2] Inspired by her mother, Olga, who sewed much of what their family wore: Rosenberg designed her first piece of clothing at age eleven: a green shift dress with a matching triangle scarf.^[2] While enrolled at Beaver Area Middle School, Rosenberg decided to make designing her future profession.^[2] After high school, Rosenberg moved to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in fashion design.^[1]

Rosenberg began her career as fashion designer in the menswear design/production department for Ralph Lauren after graduating from college.^[3] From there, Rosenberg began work for the Alexander Julian Collection, where she became the assistant designer for the uniforms of the Charlotte Hornets when they joined the NBA in 1988.^[3][4]

Rosenberg later moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 2003,^[1][2] where she began work as a costume stitcher and dresser for plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and Humana Festival which took place there.^[3] Additionally, as an IATSE member, Rosenburg worked in the costume department as a at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, KFC Yum! Center, and Palace Theatres.^[3] In her career, Rosenberg worked on a number of shows: including Wicked, Motown: The Musical, Aladdin, and Hamilton, as well as performances for Cirque du Soleil, Disney on Ice, Carrie Underwood, Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Selena Gomez, Mariah Carey and the character "Madea".^[3]

Since leaving New York City, Rosenberg has also worked intermittently as a freelance fashion designer: creating hats, special-occasion dresses, children's clothing, and other accessories.^[1] Key aspects of Rosenberg's freelance design include adding texture, subtle details, asymmetric patterns, comfortable fabrics, and vintage characteristics into her works.^[1] Rosenberg found most success with her hats, which she has sold on Etsy, as well as entered into competitions for the Kentucky Derby.^[1] To date, Rosenberg has won two such competitions: first in 2007 for the "Chrysler Sebring Hats Off to the Derby" hat design contest, in which she won the convertible as a prize, and again in 2009 for the 'Courier-Journal's 1st Derby fashion race' with her woven straw hat titled "Sterling Silver Rose in Bloom".^[2]

Rosenberg has worked as a costume designer or in a branch of costume department for ten films, which are displayed in the table below.^[3]