Irene Sharaff

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Irene Sharaff (January 23, 1910 - August 10, 1993) was an award-winning American costume designer.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sharaff was raised by her mother. As a teenager she studied painting at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (now the Parsons School of Design) in New York City. She moved to Paris where she continued her study of art at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

In 1928, she was hired by Aline Bernstein at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre as her assistant for costumes, scenery, and properties. She made her professional debut in 1932 with Alice in Wonderland. Sharaff later created scenery and costumes for the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo, the New York City Ballet, and the Royal Ballet in London.

Sharaff contributed to more than sixty stage productions. Her stylish designs were based on meticulous research. The rich costumes for The King and I made Thai silk fashionable. In Hollywood she was nominated fifteen times for the Academy Award for her costume designs and won five times : An American in Paris, (for which she also designed the scenery for Gene Kelly's ballet sequence), The King and I, West Side Story, Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

The TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award was named for her and she was its first recipient in 1993. The award is now bestowed annually to a costume designer who, over the course of his or her career, has achieved great distinction and mastery of the art in theatre, film, opera or dance.

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