Vin Burnham is an award winning costume designer and has worked on feature films, TV commercials, TV, theatre, opera, ballet and rock n roll. Vin Burnham was always surrounded by theatre and performers, both her parents were actors and her grandfather was an opera singer.
Her long list of works includes the Chronicles of Narnia in 1988, Batman in 1989, the Fifth Element in 1997, Wind in the Willow in 2007 and Zing Zillas in 2010. But before getting any of these jobs Burnham went to art school but dropped out before she got her degree and went on to work selling programmes and working behind bars at West End theatres. She then got a lucky break at the Royal Opera House in Convent Garden in the prop department and then went onto work in the Wardrobe department at the Nottingham Playhouse where she created her first creature. After many doing many jobs Burnham decided to go a freelance with a close friend in London as costume maker for Oscar winner James Acheson.
Vin Burnham is also the creator of the Little Costume Shop which shows of small scale models of opera and ballet dresses in her own designs. Most recently She has created the Little Wedding Dress Shop were she creates small scale mementos for peoples wedding days. Burnham has also published a book in 2009 named the Best Ever Kids Costumes, which reminds me of what Iain Simons said about writing a book to help getting your self known.
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