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Costume Design

Photo: A woman leaning against a desk as she holds an astronaut helmet. The wall behind her has astronaut suits across it and a poster with an astronaut that says "Apply Now"

TV & Film

Costume Designer Esther Marquis Makes Sci-Fi Space Travel Look Realistic on TV

March 25, 2025

Photo: Shaw Hutton (CGS'23, CAS'25), an architectural studies major, spends his spare time making reproductions of 19th and early 20th century women's fashions. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Fashion

Stitching Together the Past

May 3, 2024

Photo: A man dressed in an intricate royal clown costume holds a sword drawn towards a person laying on the ground, as onlookers in white gowns gasp. The scene is part of an opera called Rigoletto

Opera

CFA Costume Designers Help Swedish Company Stitch Together a New Rigoletto

July 28, 2023

Chelsea Kerl works with a pile of orange tool that will be a skirt

Arts & Culture

Bringing a Whale of a Show to Life

December 11, 2019

Boston University BU, Huntington Theatre, Anton Chekhov The Seagull directed by Maria Aitken , costume design by Robert Morgan

Costume Design

The Dresser: Imagining Huntington’s Seagull

March 17, 2014

The Huntington Theatre Group, Disney The Jungle Book musical adaptation, India, Mary Zimmerman, Akash Chopra, Kevin Carolan, T. J. Gerckens, Dan Ostling, Mary Zimmerman, Mara Blumenfeld, Doug Peck

Huntington Theatre

The Jungle Book Launches Huntington’s 32nd season

September 18, 2013

Boston Universtiy BU, College of Fine Arts CFA, millinery class, costume design, lecturer Denise Wallace Spriggs, Huntington Theatre, theatre fashion design, hatmaking

Arts & Culture

The Huntington’s Hat Factory

August 8, 2013

Mariann Verheyen, The Luck of the Irish, Huntington Theatre Company

Calderwood Pavilion

Dressing the Part

April 11, 2012

Arts & Culture

How a Play Dresses for Success

March 17, 2011

Gallery

One Man’s Trash

February 28, 2011

Gallery

Searching for Eden

November 19, 2010

Costume Design

One Class, One Day: BU’s Own Project Runway

November 12, 2009

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Music

Yes, Rocky Horror Is Back

November 6, 2009

Costume Design

What Will You Be?

October 20, 2008