Lauren Carmen is a Costume Designer, maker, & craftsperson in NYC. Coming from a background as a professional ballet dancer, Lauren strives to use her knowledge of the performers’ experience, bodies, & movement to help storytellers impact audiences in beautiful & meaningful ways.


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A Glimpse of the Latest on @PaillettebyLC

 
•with Thanksgiving now past us, it’s officially holiday season! We head down this week to open the holiday classic, Amahl and the Night Visitors with @thecot_nc & I’m so excited to join the team down there for another opera produ
• @nisascreations captured some gorgeous photos of the second Dancers At Work program @mmcdancedept the other week, so here I share a couple of their photos of @thekeeratikid ‘s piece in the concert, as well as some behind-the-scenes image
•reviewing swatches the other week for @thecot_nc ‘s upcoming holiday opera, Amahl & the Night Visitors! Assistant Costume Designer @qle.520 has found some of the best of the options out there, & I cannot wait to show more of what
•this past weekend, we also premiered a new work by @adambarruch for @mmcdancedept ! It was a swift, sleek, sporty dance, & while texture also came into play in this dance last weekend, costumes lived more in the shiny/sleek world of texture
•congratulations to @meganwilliamsdance & cast for the lovely performances of Megan’s latest work for @mmcdancedept this past weekend! . The textures of fall, swirling leaves, and wearing of layers was a source of inspiration for this
•fall is arguably my favorite time of year clothing-wise, & with the changing of the leaves & gorgeous weather, I’m feeling like @norma_daring in this scene of @manyaglassman ‘s @howilearnedtodie . I loved getting to work to
• it’s a year of new adventures…! This fall, I hit the ground running, having taken a new position as Resident Costume Designer for the Dance Department at Marymount Manhattan. Getting to spend time and focus on costuming a great cr
•gearing up, designing another opera with @thecot_nc , & am loving how much “Christmas in October” is in my world in different capacities right now. An emotive storyboarding process is usually at the start of my designing operas
{& making up for lost time… } . Thank you @canvasrebel for the feature the other day! Here’s some excerpts from my interview, touching on designing The Nutcracker @englerttheatre @nolteacademy awhile back, the importance of connectin
•shipped these beauties off to a wonderful home yesterday! . Nutcracker season is upon us, along with the bustle of fall, “back-to-school”, and (of course) soup season. There’s a chill in the air, Toulouse & I are settling
•I’ve been off-the-grid, out-of-office, & out-of-country lately, but FOR GOOD REASON!! . Hopping back on here {before hopping back off until my Italian adventures conclude} to celebrate two favorite humans, artists, collaborators of m
•The Truck —> Telluride Film Festival• . #Repost @lizrao . Beyond excited and profoundly grateful to be in collaboration and on a journey with these beautiful talents. We are thrilled to announce that The Truck premieres at Tellur
•another peek at MARINA! So often with costume work, there are little things that really delight us behind the scenes that may or may not go noticed by viewers—but WE know it’s there & why! Peter’s robe as “Dad”