“Like Chocolate Dipped in SRiracha with a sparkler Stabbed through it”
Illustration by: Ariel Kregal
About the Designer
Photo Credit: Aimé Casillas
Somie probably was (and still is) the only third grader who invited all her friends to screen Franco Zefferrelli’s film, La Traviata, for Piero Tosi’s costumes. (And, of course, for Verdi’s music and Domingo’s voice.) Despite her penchant for period costumes and her love of theatre and fashion, costume design did not enter her life until 2014 when she was asked to be the costume designer for two world premiere plays. The rest, as they so shrewdly say, was history.
A self-proclaimed nerd and geek, Somie is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is a costume designer/stylist based in NYC. Outside of design work, she enjoys moonlighting as Nurse Patchit for Cosplay 911 at New York Comic Con (Check out the AND BEYOND/Cosplay911 tab), styling/dressing models for photoshoots and NYFW, traveling to Paris at every possible opportunity, and picking out the right sash for her World Domination poster.
Henry Hewes Award Nominee for Mary Stuart
Telly Award - Silver for Estella Scrooge
Proud member of Local USA 829 and 764 IATSE
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Illustration by: Kevin Alvir