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Welcome to Cappi Ireland: Costume
2011-06-20
For two years in a row Cappi Ireland won the AFI for Best Costume Design: first
in 2007 for her gorgeous work and evocative costumes in The Home Song Stories;
and then in 2008 for her work on The Tender Hook, a film that saw Rose Byrne in
glorious 1920’s gowns and Hugo Weaving in snappy gangster suits.
As a young designer Cappi Ireland has an enviable list of credits and her film experience is extensive.
She has costume supervised various feature films including Rowan Wood’s feature
Little Fish and worked as Uma Thurman’s costumer on Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2.
Her feature credits as Costume Designer include The Tender Hook, The Home Song
Stories, September, Footy Legends and Manthing.
In recent years she has Costume Designed, acclaimed films such as Balibo (AFI
nominated for Costume Design), Animal Kingdom (AFI nominated as well) and Oranges and Sunshine by UK director Jim Loach (son of Ken)
Her Television credits include; two SBS features; Stuart Mc Donald’s Stranded and
Jessica Hobbs’ So close to Home; an ABC TV Telemovie Stepfather of the Bride ,
Foxtel’s Love My Way TV series, ABC TV’s Very Small Business TV series, and an SBS
telemovie called Saved.
Most recently Cappi has completed Costume Designing The Slap (ABC TV) for Matchbox Pictures.
Cappi also has numerous credits as Costume Stylist for Television Commercials.