Costume designers are a handful of artistic designers, whose personal and artistic choices determine the outcome of the overall visual look of a stage, film or television production.

Theater

• Willy Clarkson who designed costumes for London's West End theatre
• Theoni V. Aldredge: Annie, Barnum, A Chorus Line
• Bob Mackie: On the Town
• Desmond Heeley: Brigadoon
• Julie Taymor: The Lion King
• Gregg Barnes: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Ann Roth: Assassins
• Jane Greenwood: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Once Upon a Mattress
• Santo Loquasto: Fosse, Ragtime
• Susan Hilferty: Wicked, Spring Awakening
• Ann Curtis: Jekyll & Hyde
• William Ivey Long: The Producers, Chicago
• Ann Hould-Ward: Beauty and the Beast, Dance of the Vampires
• Willa Kim: The Will Rogers Follies
• Jennifer von Mayrhauser: Rabbit Hole, Talley's Folly, The Heidi Chronicles
• Gregory Gale: Urinetown, The Wedding Singer
• Valentina: The Philadelphia Story
• Toni-Leslie James: Jelly's Last Jam, Footloose
• Tim Hatley: Spamalot, Shrek
• Hayden Ng who designed costumes for many Singapore's Theatre Productions.
• Eiko Ishioka: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
• Georg Weissacher: Worse Than Family"

Film and television

• Colleen Atwood: Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, Alice in Wonderland
• Cecil Beaton: My Fair Lady, Gigi
• Jenny Beavan: Howards End, Sense and Sensibility
• Milena Canonero: A Clockwork Orange, The Godfather Part III, Marie Antoinette
• Ruth E Carter: Black Panther, Selma, The Butler, Sparkle, Bamboozled, Rosewood, Crooklyn, What's Love Got to Do With It, Do the Right Thing, School Daze
• Oleg Cassini: The Razor's Edge, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Mating Season
• Phyllis Dalton: Doctor Zhivago, The Princess Bride, Oliver!
• Ngila Dickson: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Last Samurai
• Danilo Donati: Romeo and Juliet
• James Galanos: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, Never Wave at a WAC, Ginger in the Morning
• Adrian Greenburg: The Wizard of Oz, Marie Antoinette
• Julie Harris: Darling, A Hard Day's Night, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Slipper and the Rose
• Edith Head: Sabrina, The Sting, Lady in the Dark, The Emperor Waltz, The Hurricane
• Dorothy Jeakins: The Sound of Music
• Orry-Kelly: An American in Paris, Some Like It Hot, Gypsy
• Jean Louis: From Here to Eternity
• Deborah Nadoolman: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Three Amigos, Michael Jackson's Thriller
• Walter Plunkett: Gone with the Wind, Singin' in the Rain
• Sandy Powell: The Wings of the Dove, Shakespeare in Love
• Ann Roth: The English Patient
• Kazuhiro Sawataishi: 13 Assassins
• Irene Sharaff: Call Me Madam, Guys and Dolls
• William Travilla: How to Marry a Millionaire
• Theadora van Runkle: Bonnie and Clyde
• Jennifer von Mayrhauser: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
• Hazel Webb-Crozier: Mickybo and Me, Closing the Ring, Your Highness
• Jean-Pierre Dorleac: Somewhere in Time, The Blue Lagoon, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Heart and Souls, Quantum Leap
• Neeta Lulla: Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya
• Bhanu Athaiya: Gandhi, Pyaasa, C.I.D. (won Oscar for Gandhi)
• Manish Malhotra: Tashan
• Niharika Khan: Bhootnath, The Dirty Picture, Karthik Calling Karthik
• Dolly Ahluwalia: Bajatey Raho, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Love Aaj Kal
• Anaita Shroff Adajania: Love Aaj Kal, Dhoom 2
• Simple Kapadia: Rudaali
• Karan Johar: Kal Ho Naa Ho, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
• Bibi Russell: Mrittika Maya
• Kanak Chapa Chakma: Jonakir Alo
• Wahida Mollick Jolly: Mrittika Maya
• Shimul Yusuf: Guerrilla

Theatre and Opera

• Madeleine Boyd: Pelléas et Mélisande, Orfeo ed Euridice, La Gazzetta, Partenope, Peter Grimes, La scala di seta
• Tilly Grimes, theatre, opera, and film

Others

• Calico Cooper: Designed costumes for Alice Cooper tours, and currently designs for her performances in the band Beasto Blanco
• India Ferrah
• Steve Summers: Costume designer for Dolly Parton