Barbara Matera (costume designer)

Barbara Matera (16 July 1929, Kent - 13 September 2001, New York City) was an American costume and clothing designer of English birth. She apprenticed in costume design at the Royal Opera House in London during the late 1940s; later designing costumes for several productions at that theatre. Her company, Barbara Matera, Ltd., created costumes for several theatrical works, and television and film productions. She designed costumes, often as an assistant designer, for more than 100 Broadway shows, including A Chorus Line, Aida, Dreamgirls, Follies, The Lion King, Wicked and Mamma Mia!. Among her costume designs for films were The Age of Innocence and The Addams Family. She also designed costumes for productions at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, and the American Ballet Theater among other ballet and opera companies. As a clothing designer, she created clothes for an impressive list of famous clientelle, including Mick Jagger and Hillary Rodham Clinton. She notably designed Clinton's ballgown for the 1993 United States presidential inauguration. In 1996 her work was the subject of an exhibition at the New York Library for the Performing Arts.^[1]

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