Mia Morgan
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Mia Morgan is a celebrity fashion stylist and film costume designer. She is best known for her work with a wide variety of clients such as Uma Thurman
, Jodie Foster
, Beyonce Knowles
, Kate Hudson
, Penelope Cruz
, Eva Longoria
, Meryl Streep
and Philip Seymour Hoffman
. Named in WWD Magazine
's top 50 stylists, her career in fashion has spanned over two decades.
Morgan grew up just outside Detroit, Michigan as the youngest of two. She started her career at the early age of 16 when she became the visual display merchandiser for well-respected fashion boutique Contempo Casuals in the 1980s. At the time, she was also heavily involved in the rapidly expanding Detroit music scene, something she cites as being a big influence on her work later on in life.
While going to college for fashion design at Wayne State University
, Morgan worked for fashion icon Linda Dresner. She was exposed to, and worked with, some of the biggest designers in the world at the time, including Jil Sander
, Karl Lagerfeld
, Azzedine Alaia
, Claude Montana
, Dries Van Noten
and Comme des Garçons
among others. This early exposure to high-end designers and being able to work creatively with the trendiest clothes of the '80s formed the roots of Mia's approach to her work today.
After 6 years at Linda Dresner, Mia moved on to work at Calvin Klein
on Madison Avenue while attending film school at SVA
in Manhattan. It was from there that she designed costumes for her first feature-length movie. She has since worked on over a dozen feature films whilst returning to fashion to work as a stylist. Mia has stated that having a trained eye in both the fashion and film world has given her a unique perspective on not only what works in fashion and also what looks good on screen and in a photograph.
Today, Mia is known for good nature and her keen attention to detail. She has worked with some of the world's biggest photographers including Patrick Demarchelier
, Timothy White
, Peter Lindberg, Mark Seliger
, Art Streiber
, Howard Schatz
, Deigo Fuga, Robert Ascroft
, Caroline Knopf, Andrew Eccles
, Brigette Lacomb and Gilles Bensimon
.
Most recently Morgan was the stylist behind Hollywood Pinups, published by Harper Collins in 2008. Photographed by Timothy White
, it is a book depicting a number of Hollywood stars posing as classic pin-up girls.
The Apprentice : s02e06 (2005) (TV) .... herself http://www.theinternetforum.co.uk/apprentice/nbc3-6.html
The Event (2003) (Film) .... Costume Designer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
On_Line (2002) (Film) .... Costume Designer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
Endsville (2000) (Film) .... Costume Designer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
Tadpole (2002) (Film) .... Wardrobe & Additional Photography http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
Other Voices (2000) (Film) .... Assistant Costume Designer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill...
, Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....
, Beyonce Knowles
Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...
, Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson
Kate Garry Hudson is an American actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after winning a Golden Globe and receiving several nominations, including a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Almost Famous. She then starred in the hit film How to Lose a Guy in 10...
, Penelope Cruz
Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón , to critical acclaim...
, Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria
Eva Jacqueline Longoria is an American actress, best known for portraying Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives...
, Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...
and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman is an American actor and director. Hoffman began acting in television in 1991, and the following year started to appear in films...
. Named in WWD Magazine
Women's Wear Daily
Women's Wear Daily is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion." WWD delivers information and intelligence on changing trends and breaking news in the fashion, beauty and retail industries with a readership composed largely of retailers, designers, manufacturers,...
's top 50 stylists, her career in fashion has spanned over two decades.
Early life
Morgan grew up just outside Detroit, Michigan as the youngest of two. She started her career at the early age of 16 when she became the visual display merchandiser for well-respected fashion boutique Contempo Casuals in the 1980s. At the time, she was also heavily involved in the rapidly expanding Detroit music scene, something she cites as being a big influence on her work later on in life.
Career
While going to college for fashion design at Wayne State University
Wayne State University
Wayne State University is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center Historic District. Founded in 1868, WSU consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 400 major subject areas to over 32,000 graduate and...
, Morgan worked for fashion icon Linda Dresner. She was exposed to, and worked with, some of the biggest designers in the world at the time, including Jil Sander
Jil Sander
Heidemarie Jiline 'Jil' Sander is a minimalist German fashion designer and the founder of the Jil Sander fashion house....
, Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Lagerfeld is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel...
, Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaia
Azzedine Alaïa is a Tunisian-born couturier and shoe designer, particularly successful since the 1980s.-Biography:Alaïa was born in Siliana, Tunisia on 7 June 1940. His parents were wheat farmers but his glamorous twin sister inspired his love for couture. A French friend of his mother fed Alaïa's...
, Claude Montana
Claude Montana
Claude Montana is a French fashion designer. His company, The House of Montana, founded in 1979, went bankrupt in 1997.Born in Paris in 1949 to a Catalonian father and German mother, Montana began his career by designing papier-mâché jewelry covered with rhinestones...
, Dries Van Noten
Dries van Noten
Dries Van Noten is a Belgian fashion designer and an eponymous fashion brand. In 2005, the New York Times described him "one of fashion's most cerebral designers"...
and Comme des Garçons
Comme des Garçons
Comme des Garçons, written コム・デ・ギャルソン in Japanese and French for "Like Boys," is a Japanese fashion label headed by Rei Kawakubo, who owns the company with her husband Adrian Joffe....
among others. This early exposure to high-end designers and being able to work creatively with the trendiest clothes of the '80s formed the roots of Mia's approach to her work today.
After 6 years at Linda Dresner, Mia moved on to work at Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein
Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....
on Madison Avenue while attending film school at SVA
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
in Manhattan. It was from there that she designed costumes for her first feature-length movie. She has since worked on over a dozen feature films whilst returning to fashion to work as a stylist. Mia has stated that having a trained eye in both the fashion and film world has given her a unique perspective on not only what works in fashion and also what looks good on screen and in a photograph.
Today, Mia is known for good nature and her keen attention to detail. She has worked with some of the world's biggest photographers including Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer.-Life:Born near Paris in 1943 to a modest family, he spent his childhood in Le Havre with his mother and four brothers. For his seventeenth birthday, his stepfather bought him his first Eastman Kodak camera...
, Timothy White
Timothy White
Timothy White was a noted American rock music journalist and editor.White began his journalism career as a writer for the Associated Press, but soon gravitated towards music writing...
, Peter Lindberg, Mark Seliger
Mark Seliger
Mark Seliger is an American photographer noted for his portraiture.Seliger was born in Amarillo, Texas and attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, and Texas A&M University–Commerce. Seliger served as the chief photographer for Rolling Stone from 1992 to 2002 and...
, Art Streiber
Art Streiber
Art Streiber is an American photographer known in particular for his portraits of entertainment and sports personalities. His images are widely published and range from a portrait of actor-comedian Seth Rogen as the Cary Grant character in the famous plane scene in the Alfred Hitchcock classic...
, Howard Schatz
Howard Schatz
Howard Schatz is an American ophthalmologist and photographer. After an academic career as a retina specialist, primarily in the San Francisco area, he turned his photography hobby into a successful second career. The photographs of Howard Schatz are exhibited in museums and photography...
, Deigo Fuga, Robert Ascroft
Robert Ascroft
Robert Ascroft , JP. MP, was a prominent Lancashire solicitor and an English politician. He was one of the two Members of Parliament for Oldham between 1895 and his death, as a member of the Conservative Party.- External links :...
, Caroline Knopf, Andrew Eccles
Andrew Eccles
Andrew Eccles is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League.Eccles played TAC Cup football for the Northern Knights, and was recruited to the AFL in the 1996 AFL Draft by the Adelaide Football Club. He made his AFL debut in the 1998 season, and he was the...
, Brigette Lacomb and Gilles Bensimon
Gilles Bensimon
Gilles Bensimon is a fashion photographer and the former International Creative Director of Elle magazine. He has also been the photographer on the reality television series America's Next Top Model....
.
Most recently Morgan was the stylist behind Hollywood Pinups, published by Harper Collins in 2008. Photographed by Timothy White
Timothy White
Timothy White was a noted American rock music journalist and editor.White began his journalism career as a writer for the Associated Press, but soon gravitated towards music writing...
, it is a book depicting a number of Hollywood stars posing as classic pin-up girls.
Filmography
The Montel Williams Show : s17e72 (April 16, 2008) (TV) .... herself http://www.tv.com/the-montel-williams-show/living-well-miraculous-kids/episode/1196815/summary.htmlThe Apprentice : s02e06 (2005) (TV) .... herself http://www.theinternetforum.co.uk/apprentice/nbc3-6.html
The Event (2003) (Film) .... Costume Designer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
On_Line (2002) (Film) .... Costume Designer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
Endsville (2000) (Film) .... Costume Designer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
Tadpole (2002) (Film) .... Wardrobe & Additional Photography http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/
Other Voices (2000) (Film) .... Assistant Costume Designer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604900/