Jacqueline West is an American fashion and

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. She has received various accolades, including a Costume Designers Guild Award, along with nominations for five

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and four

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. West created the costumes for such notable films as '' Quills'' (2000), '' The New World'' (2005), '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008), ''

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'' (2010), '' The Tree of Life'' (2011), ''

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'' (2012), '' The Revenant'' (2015), ''

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'' (2021), its sequel '' Dune: Part Two'' (2024), and '' Killers of the Flower Moon'' (2023).

Career

West began her career as a fashion designer in the

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, where she owned a boutique on Gilman Street in

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. There she created and sold her eponymous "Identikit by Jacqueline West" line. West ventured into film costume design in the 1990s after being persuaded to do so by

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. She first worked for the director as a creative consultant on ''

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'' (1990). Their professional relationship continued on the films '' Rising Sun'' (1993) and '' Quills'' (2000); for creating costumes in the latter, she garnered her first Academy Award nomination. West stated that Kaufman, who shaped her approach to dressing actors, was among the major influences on her career; the other was her mother, an avant-garde fashion designer of the 1940s and 1950s. West worked with director

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on '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008), which turned out to be a difficult task for her due to its epic scope and the need to maintain the integrity of each character's garments in a story that takes place through almost 100 years of different clothing styles and fashions. Another challenge was making Benjamin (

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) look both old and young at the beginning of the film and young and old at the film's end. West later said that Pitt called her a

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costumer for those approaches. West and the

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established The Jacqueline West Scholarship for “an outstanding Native American interested in the study of fashion or costume design.”

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Major associations

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Miscellaneous awards

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:West, Jacqueline Living people American costume designers American LGBTQ women American women costume designers Year of birth missing (living people)