A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the s
Elizabeth Whiting, costume designer for New Zealand Opera (2016)
Whiting (right), after her investiture as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Dame Cindy Kiro, at Government House, Auckland, on 11 April 2026