Rodarte
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Rodarte is a brand of clothing and accessories founded by Kate and Laura Mulleavy. The Mulleavy sisters are U.C. Berkeley graduates from Aptos, California
, and have received a number of industry awards since the line's inception in 2005. The sisters have also collaborated with Gap
and Target
, on limited edition pieces.
After their initial collection of just 10 pieces, the Mulleavys appeared on the cover of Women's Wear Daily
and had a meeting with US Vogue
editor-in-chief Anna Wintour
. Rodarte is now stocked globally by more than 40 of the world’s premiere retailers including Barneys NYC, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Beams, Harvey Nichols, Colette, Ikram, Nordstrom, Jeffrey, Dover Street Market, Opening Ceremony, Net-a-Porter, the Room at Hudson Bay, and Joyce.
Rodarte was nominated for its first CFDA Swarovski Emerging Womenswear Designer award in June 2006, followed by another nomination in 2007. Rodarte was awarded the CFDA Swarovski Emerging Womenswear Designer in June 2008. Rodarte was then awarded the CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year Award in June 2009.
In Fall 2006, Rodarte was awarded runner-up in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition.
ANDAM
In the summer of 2008, Rodarte was selected as a finalist in the ANDAM competition.
SWISS TEXTILES AWARD
On November 13, 2008, The Mulleavy sisters won one of fashion's biggest monetary awards, The Swiss Textiles Award in Zurich
Switzerland
, worth 100,000 euros. Rodarte beat other fashion designers like Jean-Pierre Braganza, Richard Nicoll and Louise Goldin to the prize. They were the first women to win the award and the first winners from outside Europe. The jury for the prize included New York fashion designer Patricia Field
. In a radio interview just after they received their accolade Kate and Laura Mulleavy said their sibling relationship is critical to their work and their success.
UNITED STATES ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP
Kate and Laura Mulleavy were one of the 50 recipients to win the 2009 United States Artists Fellowship.
COOPER HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD
Rodarte was Cooper Hewitt's National Design Awards Fashion Design Finalist in 2009 and winner in 2010.
NATIONAL ART AWARD
Rodarte is the first fashion house to be awarded the National Art Award from Americans for the Arts
in 2010. The award is a custom Jeff Koons
gold bunny sculpture.
FASHION GROUP INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Rodarte is awarded the Star Honoree Award from Fashion Group International in 2011.
, the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Rodarte was featured in the fall 2007 exhibit BLOGMODE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
's Costume Institute, as well as several exhibits at The Museum at FIT including Luxury in spring 2007, Gothic: Dark Glamour in fall 2008, and American Beauty: Aesthetics & Innovation in Fashion in spring 2010. Arnhem Fashion Biennale featured Rodarte vignettes in July of 2007, 2009 and 2011.
In February 2010 Rodarte had their first solo-exhibition, Quicktake: Rodarte, at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (the design branch of the Smithsonian Institute) and were the first fashion designers in 20 years to be reviewed in Artforum
.
In May 2011, Rodarte contributed artworks to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
s Cell Phone Stories project. Their contribution included sketches based on artworks held in the LACMA's permanent collection.
In February 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
opened Rodarte: States of Matter, the first west coast museum exhibition of the Rodarte's fashion and costume designs from Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Fall 2010 and pieces from Black Swan
.
, Keira Knightley
, Kirsten Dunst
, Natalie Portman
, Kristen Stewart
, Emma Watson
, Mia Wasikowska
, Elle Fanning
, Dakota Fanning
, Michelle Obama
, Reese Witherspoon
, Saoirse Ronan
, Rihanna
, Jennifer Lopez
, Kate Bosworth
, Charlotte Gainsbourg
, Jennifer Connelly
, Beyonce, Rooney Mara, Taylor Swift
, Lauryn Hill
, Rachel McAdams
, Olivia Wilde
, Chloë Sevigny
, Tilda Swinton
, Maggie Cheung
, Miranda July
, Milla Jovovich
, Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff, Andrew Dost, Anne Hathaway
, Kanye West
, Elijah Wood
, Devendra Banhart
, Mary-Kate Olsen
, Ciara
, and Dita von Teese
.
At the 81st Academy Awards
both Reese Witherspoon
and Natalie Portman
were dressed in Rodarte. Natalie Portman
was also dressed in Rodarte at the 2010 Venice Film Festival
and 83rd Academy Awards
in 2011. Another celebrity fan and friend, is actress Kirsten Dunst
, who accompanied them to the CFDA
Awards in 2009 and wore them to the premiere of Melancholia in the 2011 Cannes Film festival.
Musicians Jenny Lewis
, Kim Gordon
, and Joanna Newsom
are often seen wearing their designs and Britney Spears
was dressed in Rodarte for the cover of her 2009 album Circus as well as the 2010 cover of Pop magazine.
On April 23, 2009, Michelle Obama
wore Rodarte while hosting Queen Rania of Jordan in the Oval Office
.
line as a part of GO International
was released in stores and online December 20, 2009.
Tavi Gevinson
, 13-year-old style blogger, was the guest commentator for this collection.
For the New York Times Magazine 2010 Winter Olympic portfolio, Rodarte collaborated with Ryan McGinley
to create custom designed knitwear for Olympic athletes including: Emily Cook
, Rachael Flatt
, Anders Johnson
, Hannah Kearney
, Evan Lysacek
, Jeret Peterson
, Hannah Teter
, Shaun White
, Johnny Weir
, and Kelly Clark
.
In 2010 Rodarte collaborated with director Todd Cole on the short film Aanteni starring Guinevere can Seenus and original score by No Age
. Aanteni screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January 2011 and was named one of the best fashion films of 2010 by W Magazine. Rodarte again collaborated with director Todd Cole in 2011 on the short film The Curve of Forgotten Things starring Elle Fanning
and an original score by Deerhunter
. These films were both shown at the 2011 Rotterdam Film Festival.
In January 2010, Rodarte was subject of a New Yorker
profile, written by Amanda Fortini.
In the Spring of 2010, Rodarte designed the American and International re-release posters for Jean-Luc Godard
's Breathless. lThey also designed limited edition t-shirts celebrating the International Herald Tribune Logo and the posters themselves. The collaboration and re-release was celebrated at the American Embassy in Paris.
Rodarte guest edits Lula #11, for the Fall 2010 issue, in which they feature Charlotte Gainsbourg
photographed by Nan Goldin
on the cover. Their original content includes coverage of Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice, Kirsten Dunst, Nick Cave, Miranda July
, David Armstrong, Elle Fanning, S.E. Hinton, and Sophie Calle
.
For Spring 2011, Rodarte collaborated on a collection with Opening Ceremony. Ballerina Laura Love and pro skater Alex Olson modeled for the lookbook photographed by Autumn de Wilde. This collection was released world wide in February 2011. Their second collection with Opening Ceremony debuts for Fall 2011 and hits retail outlets in September 2011. The lookbook is again photographed by Autumn de Wilde and features twin models Gwen and Donna Loos.
In the spring of 2011, Rodarte's work was featured in a cover story for the Italian art publication, Flash Art. Kate and Laura Mulleavy were interviewed by artist Maurizio Cattelan
.
On June 16, 2011 Rodarte unveiled a site-specific installation in Florence
showcasing ten new couture pieces created exclusively on the occasion of the 8th edition of Pitti W. The collection was then donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
to be housed in its permanent collection. Their first monograph, entitled Rodarte Catherine Opie Alec Soth was also launched at Pitti W. Catherine Opie
and Alec Soth
were commissioned to shoot original content featuring their work and the landscape of California. The book retails for $80.00 and is of a limited edition of 2000 copies.
In September 2011, Rodarte guest edits Francis Ford Coppola
's Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2011/Horror Issue.
In July 2010, Rodarte's collaboration with Make-up Art Cosmetics
, inspired by Ciudad Juárez
, sparked controversy. Many found the collection names, such as "Factory", "Juarez", and "Ghost Town", insensitive to the rampant crime against women in Ciudad Juarez. The collection was originally set to be launched in September, but on August 17, MAC announced the cancellation of the collection.
and scored by Nico Muhly
.
In October 2010, Rodarte collaborated with artist Brody Condon
to design the costumes for MOVE! at MoMA PS1. The project was acquired by the LACMA, and reinterpreted by Brody and Rodarte for a larger performance on April 28, 2011.
Rodarte created costumes for the film Black Swan
, directed by Darren Aronofsky
. Nominated for Best Costume Design for the 2011 Critics' Choice Movie Awards
, Kate and Laura designed the costumes for both the Swan Lake ballet in Black Swan, as well as other iconic pieces worn by Natalie Portman
and Mila Kunis
in the film. The Rodarte credit for the film reads Ballet Costumes Designed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte as they designed the Swan Lake ballet within the film and key costumes worn by Natalie Portman, including her white gown, white scarf, and grey practice tutu. Their work landed on the cover of Flash Art, an Italian art publication, and in the MOCA of Los Angeles.
Controversy on the costume design for Black Swan
Amy Westcott is credited as the costume designer for the 2010 drama film Black Swan
, and received several award nominations. A publicized controversy arose regarding the question who had designed 40 ballet costumes for Portman and the dancers. An article in the British newspaper, The Independent
suggested those costumes had actually been created by the Mulleavy sisters.
Aptos, California
Aptos is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The population was 6,220 at the 2010 census.Aptos is an unincorporated area of Santa Cruz county, consisting of several small communities...
, and have received a number of industry awards since the line's inception in 2005. The sisters have also collaborated with Gap
Gap (clothing retailer)
The Gap, Inc. is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher. The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime and Athleta. As of September 2008,...
and Target
Target Corporation
Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...
, on limited edition pieces.
After their initial collection of just 10 pieces, the Mulleavys appeared on the cover of Women's Wear Daily
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,...
and had a meeting with US Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
editor-in-chief Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour, OBE is the British-born editor-in-chief of American Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and sunglasses, Wintour has become an institution throughout the fashion world, widely praised for her eye for fashion trends and her support for...
. Rodarte is now stocked globally by more than 40 of the world’s premiere retailers including Barneys NYC, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Beams, Harvey Nichols, Colette, Ikram, Nordstrom, Jeffrey, Dover Street Market, Opening Ceremony, Net-a-Porter, the Room at Hudson Bay, and Joyce.
Awards
CFDA AWARDS AND CFDA VOGUE FUNDRodarte was nominated for its first CFDA Swarovski Emerging Womenswear Designer award in June 2006, followed by another nomination in 2007. Rodarte was awarded the CFDA Swarovski Emerging Womenswear Designer in June 2008. Rodarte was then awarded the CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year Award in June 2009.
In Fall 2006, Rodarte was awarded runner-up in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund competition.
ANDAM
In the summer of 2008, Rodarte was selected as a finalist in the ANDAM competition.
SWISS TEXTILES AWARD
On November 13, 2008, The Mulleavy sisters won one of fashion's biggest monetary awards, The Swiss Textiles Award in Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, worth 100,000 euros. Rodarte beat other fashion designers like Jean-Pierre Braganza, Richard Nicoll and Louise Goldin to the prize. They were the first women to win the award and the first winners from outside Europe. The jury for the prize included New York fashion designer Patricia Field
Patricia Field
Patricia Field is an American costume designer, stylist and fashion designer.-Life and career:Field was born in 1941 in New York City to Greek and Armenian parents, who emigrated from Lesvos, Greece. She was raised in Astoria, Queens and has claimed credit for inventing the modern legging for...
. In a radio interview just after they received their accolade Kate and Laura Mulleavy said their sibling relationship is critical to their work and their success.
UNITED STATES ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP
Kate and Laura Mulleavy were one of the 50 recipients to win the 2009 United States Artists Fellowship.
COOPER HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD
Rodarte was Cooper Hewitt's National Design Awards Fashion Design Finalist in 2009 and winner in 2010.
NATIONAL ART AWARD
Rodarte is the first fashion house to be awarded the National Art Award from Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts
Americans for the Arts is a nonprofit organization whose primary focus is advancing the arts in the United States. With offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City, it has a record of more than 50 years of service...
in 2010. The award is a custom Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces....
gold bunny sculpture.
FASHION GROUP INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Rodarte is awarded the Star Honoree Award from Fashion Group International in 2011.
Museums and exhibitions
Rodarte is in the permanent collections of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Rodarte was featured in the fall 2007 exhibit BLOGMODE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
's Costume Institute, as well as several exhibits at The Museum at FIT including Luxury in spring 2007, Gothic: Dark Glamour in fall 2008, and American Beauty: Aesthetics & Innovation in Fashion in spring 2010. Arnhem Fashion Biennale featured Rodarte vignettes in July of 2007, 2009 and 2011.
In February 2010 Rodarte had their first solo-exhibition, Quicktake: Rodarte, at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (the design branch of the Smithsonian Institute) and were the first fashion designers in 20 years to be reviewed in Artforum
Artforum
Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...
.
In May 2011, Rodarte contributed artworks to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
s Cell Phone Stories project. Their contribution included sketches based on artworks held in the LACMA's permanent collection.
In February 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...
opened Rodarte: States of Matter, the first west coast museum exhibition of the Rodarte's fashion and costume designs from Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Fall 2010 and pieces from Black Swan
Black Swan
The Black Swan is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic...
.
Celebrities
Rodarte's celebrity fanbase includes Cate BlanchettCate Blanchett
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award...
, Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley born 26 March 1985) is an English actress and model. She began acting as a child and came to international notice in 2002 after co-starring in the film Bend It Like Beckham...
, Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories...
, Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman
Natalie Hershlag , better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but major success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel...
, Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart
Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress. She is best known for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga. She has also starred in films including Panic Room , Zathura , In the Land of Women , The Messengers , Adventureland and The Runaways .- Early life :Stewart was born and raised in Los...
, Emma Watson
Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress and model.Watson rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. Watson was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having previously acted only in school plays. From 2001 to 2011, she starred in all eight Harry Potter...
, Mia Wasikowska
Mia Wasikowska
Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. After starting her career in Australian television and film, she first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment...
, Elle Fanning
Elle Fanning
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, Dakota Fanning
Dakota Fanning
Hannah Dakota Fanning , better known as Dakota Fanning, is an American actress. Fanning's breakthrough performance was in I Am Sam in 2001. As a child actress, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, and Charlotte's Web...
, Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States...
, Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower...
, Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Una Ronan is an Irish film actress. She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2007 after co-starring in the film Atonement, which gained her nominations for a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.Ronan has since appeared in...
, Rihanna
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
, Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...
, Kate Bosworth
Kate Bosworth
Catherine Ann "Kate" Bosworth is an American actress. Bosworth starred in the television series Young Americans, in which she played Bella Banks. She became known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush. The following year, Bosworth played the teenage girlfriend of porn star John Holmes in...
, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
, Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lynn Connelly is an American film actress, who began her career as a child model. She appeared in magazine, newspaper and television advertising, before making her motion picture debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America...
, Beyonce, Rooney Mara, Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...
, Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Noelle Hill is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress.Early in her career, she established her reputation as a member of the Fugees. In 1998, she launched her solo career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album, The Miseducation of...
, Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams
Rachel Anne McAdams is a Canadian actress. After graduating from a theatre program at York University, Toronto in 2001, she worked steadily as an actress until finding fame in 2004 with starring roles in teen comedy Mean Girls and romantic drama The Notebook...
, Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde is an American actress and fashion model. She began acting in the early 2000s, and has since appeared in a number of film and television parts, including roles in the serial-drama The O.C. and The Black Donnellys. She portrayed Dr...
, Chloë Sevigny
Chloë Sevigny
Chloë Stevens Sevigny is an American film actress, fashion designer and former model. Sevigny gained reputation for her eclectic fashion sense and developed a broad career in the fashion industry in the mid 1990s, both for modeling and for her work at New York's Sassy magazine, which labeled her...
, Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton
Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, We Need to Talk About Kevin and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her...
, Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung Man yuk is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983...
, Miranda July
Miranda July
Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
, Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich December 17, 1975)is an American model, actress, musician, and fashion designer. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science fiction and action-themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the "reigning queen of kick-butt".Milla Jovovich began...
, Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff, Andrew Dost, Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway (actress)
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. After several stage roles, she appeared in the 1999 television series Get Real. She played Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries...
, Kanye West
Kanye West
Kanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and...
, Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood
Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor. He made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II , then landed a succession of larger roles that made him a critically acclaimed child actor by age 9. He is best known for his high-profile role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's...
, Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
, Mary-Kate Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen
Mary-Kate Olsen is an American actress, producer, author and fashion designer. She made her career debut in 1987 alongside her twin sister Ashley Olsen in the television series Full House...
, Ciara
Ciara
Ciara Princess Harris , known mononymously as Ciara, is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress and fashion model. Born in Austin, Texas, she traveled around the world during her childhood, only to land in Atlanta, Georgia where she met music producer, Jazze Pha...
, and Dita von Teese
Dita Von Teese
Dita Von Teese is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author and actress.-Early life:...
.
At the 81st Academy Awards
81st Academy Awards
The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2008 and took place February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST...
both Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower...
and Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman
Natalie Hershlag , better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but major success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel...
were dressed in Rodarte. Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman
Natalie Hershlag , better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but major success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel...
was also dressed in Rodarte at the 2010 Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
and 83rd Academy Awards
83rd Academy Awards
The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2010 and took place February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, Academy Awards ...
in 2011. Another celebrity fan and friend, is actress Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories...
, who accompanied them to the CFDA
Council of Fashion Designers of America
The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc. is a not-for-profit trade association of over 350 of America’s foremost fashion and accessory designers. As of 2009, Diane von Fürstenberg is the group's President and Steven Kolb is the Executive Director...
Awards in 2009 and wore them to the premiere of Melancholia in the 2011 Cannes Film festival.
Musicians Jenny Lewis
Jenny Lewis
Jennifer Diane Lewis , is an American singer-songwriter musician and actress. She was the primary vocalist of the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, and has released two solo albums. She currently performs as part of the duo Jenny & Johnny with boyfriend Johnathan Rice...
, Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon
Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
, and Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...
are often seen wearing their designs and Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
was dressed in Rodarte for the cover of her 2009 album Circus as well as the 2010 cover of Pop magazine.
On April 23, 2009, Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States...
wore Rodarte while hosting Queen Rania of Jordan in the Oval Office
Oval Office
The Oval Office, located in the West Wing of the White House, is the official office of the President of the United States.The room features three large south-facing windows behind the president's desk, and a fireplace at the north end...
.
Special projects
A limited edition Rodarte for TargetTarget Corporation
Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...
line as a part of GO International
Go International
Go International is a Target Corporation store brand that focuses on affordable apparel and accessories for women. Each season is created by a different designer who is already well known for their high-end collections and is only available for 90 days from its release.-Designers:*Fiorucci *Luella...
was released in stores and online December 20, 2009.
Tavi Gevinson
Tavi Gevinson
Tavi Gevinson is an American fashion blogger. She began her blog, "Style Rookie" on March 31, 2008 at age 11. Initially, her parents did not completely know what Tavi was doing until she asked for their permission to appear in a New York Times magazine story...
, 13-year-old style blogger, was the guest commentator for this collection.
For the New York Times Magazine 2010 Winter Olympic portfolio, Rodarte collaborated with Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley
Ryan McGinley is an American photographer living in New York City who began making photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 25, McGinley was one of the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also named Photographer of the Year in 2003 by American Photo...
to create custom designed knitwear for Olympic athletes including: Emily Cook
Emily Cook (skier)
Emily Cook is an American freestyle skier who has competed since 1995. Her first World Cup victory was in an aerials event in Russia in 2008...
, Rachael Flatt
Rachael Flatt
Rachael Elizabeth Flatt is an American figure skater. She is the 2010 U.S. national champion, 2008, 2009 and 2011 national silver medalist, and 2008 World Junior Champion....
, Anders Johnson
Anders Johnson
For the American ski jumper, see Anders Johnson Anders Johnson was a Swedish sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics....
, Hannah Kearney
Hannah Kearney
Hannah Kearney is an American mogul skier who won a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics.-Personal life:Born in a hospital in Hanover, New Hampshire, Kearney grew up and still lives in Norwich, Vermont. She is the daughter of Tom and Jill Kearney, who met while attending McGill University in...
, Evan Lysacek
Evan Lysacek
Evan Frank Lysacek is an American figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, the 2005 & 2007 Four Continents champion, the 2007 & 2008 U.S. national champion, and the 2009/2010 Grand Prix Final champion....
, Jeret Peterson
Jeret Peterson
Jeret "Speedy" Peterson was an American World Cup aerial skier from Boise, Idaho, skiing out of Bogus Basin. A three-time Olympian, he won the silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Peterson was found dead in Lambs Canyon, Utah on July 25, 2011...
, Hannah Teter
Hannah Teter
Hannah Teter is an American snowboarder from Belmont, Vermont. She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. She also won bronze at the 2005 FIS World Championships at Whistler, British Columbia, and has six World Cup victories...
, Shaun White
Shaun White
Shaun Roger White is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. He rides regular stance, twelve and negative three degrees on his board.-Early life:Shaun White is an Irish American...
, Johnny Weir
Johnny Weir
John Garvin "Johnny" Weir is an American figure skater. He is a three-time U.S. National Champion , the 2008 Worlds bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and the 2001 World Junior Champion....
, and Kelly Clark
Kelly Clark
Kelly Clark is a snowboarder born in the village of West Dover in the town of Dover, Vermont. She has been snowboarding since she was 8 years old, and began competing in 1999...
.
In 2010 Rodarte collaborated with director Todd Cole on the short film Aanteni starring Guinevere can Seenus and original score by No Age
No Age
No Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is currently signed to Sub Pop records...
. Aanteni screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival in January 2011 and was named one of the best fashion films of 2010 by W Magazine. Rodarte again collaborated with director Todd Cole in 2011 on the short film The Curve of Forgotten Things starring Elle Fanning
Elle Fanning
Mary Elle Fanning , credited as Elle Fanning, is an American actress. She is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning and mainly known for her starring roles in Phoebe in Wonderland, Somewhere, Super 8 and We Bought a Zoo which will receive a theatrical release on December 23,...
and an original score by Deerhunter
Deerhunter
Deerhunter is an American four-piece indie rock group originating from Atlanta, Georgia. The band, consisting of Bradford Cox, Moses Archuleta, Josh Fauver, and Lockett Pundt, have described themselves as "ambient punk," though they incorporate a wide range of genres, including noise rock, art...
. These films were both shown at the 2011 Rotterdam Film Festival.
In January 2010, Rodarte was subject of a New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
profile, written by Amanda Fortini.
In the Spring of 2010, Rodarte designed the American and International re-release posters for Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
's Breathless. lThey also designed limited edition t-shirts celebrating the International Herald Tribune Logo and the posters themselves. The collaboration and re-release was celebrated at the American Embassy in Paris.
Rodarte guest edits Lula #11, for the Fall 2010 issue, in which they feature Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
photographed by Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin
Nancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest...
on the cover. Their original content includes coverage of Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice, Kirsten Dunst, Nick Cave, Miranda July
Miranda July
Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
, David Armstrong, Elle Fanning, S.E. Hinton, and Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines...
.
For Spring 2011, Rodarte collaborated on a collection with Opening Ceremony. Ballerina Laura Love and pro skater Alex Olson modeled for the lookbook photographed by Autumn de Wilde. This collection was released world wide in February 2011. Their second collection with Opening Ceremony debuts for Fall 2011 and hits retail outlets in September 2011. The lookbook is again photographed by Autumn de Wilde and features twin models Gwen and Donna Loos.
In the spring of 2011, Rodarte's work was featured in a cover story for the Italian art publication, Flash Art. Kate and Laura Mulleavy were interviewed by artist Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist based in New York. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora , depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite....
.
On June 16, 2011 Rodarte unveiled a site-specific installation in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
showcasing ten new couture pieces created exclusively on the occasion of the 8th edition of Pitti W. The collection was then donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
to be housed in its permanent collection. Their first monograph, entitled Rodarte Catherine Opie Alec Soth was also launched at Pitti W. Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie is an American artist specializing in issues within documentary photography. Throughout her work she has investigated aspects of community, making portraits of many groups including LGBT community; surfers; and most recently high school football players. She is also interested in...
and Alec Soth
Alec Soth
Alec Soth is an American photographer notable for "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. His photography has a cinematic feel with elements of folklore that hint at a story behind the image. New York Times art critic Hilarie M...
were commissioned to shoot original content featuring their work and the landscape of California. The book retails for $80.00 and is of a limited edition of 2000 copies.
In September 2011, Rodarte guest edits Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
's Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2011/Horror Issue.
In July 2010, Rodarte's collaboration with Make-up Art Cosmetics
Make-up Art Cosmetics
Make-up Art Cosmetics, better known as M·A·C or MAC Cosmetics, is a manufacturer of cosmetics founded in Toronto, Canada and headquartered in New York City, New York.-History:...
, inspired by Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez , officially known today as Heroica Ciudad Juárez, but abbreviated Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande...
, sparked controversy. Many found the collection names, such as "Factory", "Juarez", and "Ghost Town", insensitive to the rampant crime against women in Ciudad Juarez. The collection was originally set to be launched in September, but on August 17, MAC announced the cancellation of the collection.
Costume design
Rodarte designed the ballet costumes for the Het National Ballet which premiered on October 15, 2010 in Amsterdam. The ballet is choreographed by Benjamin MillepiedBenjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied is a French danseur, best known for his work as choreographer in the movie Black Swan .-Early life:...
and scored by Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly is a contemporary classical music composer, who has worked and recorded with classical and pop/rock musicians. He currently lives in the Lower East Side section of Manhattan in New York City.-Early years:...
.
In October 2010, Rodarte collaborated with artist Brody Condon
Brody Condon
Brody Condon is an artist based in New York. Concerned with the aftermath of trauma and the over-identification with fantasy in contemporary culture, Condon’s work is best known for its influence on the re-purposing of existing pop cultural material to create performative situations, video, and...
to design the costumes for MOVE! at MoMA PS1. The project was acquired by the LACMA, and reinterpreted by Brody and Rodarte for a larger performance on April 28, 2011.
Rodarte created costumes for the film Black Swan
Black Swan
The Black Swan is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. The species was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, but later reintroduced. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic...
, directed by Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University to study film theory and the American Film Institute to study both live-action and animation filmmaking...
. Nominated for Best Costume Design for the 2011 Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
The Critics' Choice Movie Awards are presented annually since 1995 by the Broadcast Film Critics Association for outstanding achievements in the cinema industry.-List of awards:*Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Action Movie...
, Kate and Laura designed the costumes for both the Swan Lake ballet in Black Swan, as well as other iconic pieces worn by Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman
Natalie Hershlag , better known by her stage name Natalie Portman, is an actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship. Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 French action film Léon, but major success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel...
and Mila Kunis
Mila Kunis
Milena "Mila" Kunis is an American actress. Her work includes the role of Jackie Burkhart on the TV series That '70s Show and the voice of Meg Griffin on the animated series Family Guy...
in the film. The Rodarte credit for the film reads Ballet Costumes Designed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte as they designed the Swan Lake ballet within the film and key costumes worn by Natalie Portman, including her white gown, white scarf, and grey practice tutu. Their work landed on the cover of Flash Art, an Italian art publication, and in the MOCA of Los Angeles.
Controversy on the costume design for Black Swan
Amy Westcott is credited as the costume designer for the 2010 drama film Black Swan
Black Swan (film)
Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis. Its plot revolves around a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. The production requires a ballerina to...
, and received several award nominations. A publicized controversy arose regarding the question who had designed 40 ballet costumes for Portman and the dancers. An article in the British newspaper, The Independent
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
suggested those costumes had actually been created by the Mulleavy sisters.
Awards and nominations
- 2011 Fashion Group International's Star Honoree Award- Won
- 2011 Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Costume Design- Nomination
- 2010 National Art Award from Americans for the Arts- Won
- 2010 Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards- Won
- 2009 Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards- Nomination
- 2009 United States Artists Fellowships Recipient
- 2009 CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year - Won
- 2008 CFDA Swarovski Award for Womenswear - Won
- 2008 Stella Swiss Textiles Award - Won
- 2007 CFDA Swarovski Award for Womenswear - Nomination
- 2006 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund - Runner Up
- 2006 CFDA Swarovski Award for Womenswear - Nomination
- 2006 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award - Won
External links
- Rodarte Official Site
- Rodarte Official Facebook Site http://www.facebook.com/OfficialRodarte
- Rodarte's Style.com Collection Index
- Rodarte's Style.com Lookbook
- Rodarte's Profile on Vogue.com http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Rodarte
- Rodarte's Top 10 films from Criterion
- Rodarte for the Gap from People.com
- Nominee Profile, CFDA/ VOGUE Fund, Style.com
- Rodarte profile in the New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/18/100118fa_fact_fortini
- Rodarte interview by Maurizio Cattelan in Flash Art http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=698&det=ok&title=RODARTE
- Rodarte profile in the New York Times Magazine http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07style-rodarte-t.html