Renée April is a Canadian

costume designer 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 scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costum ...

. April is from

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, Quebec, and her workshop is in

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. She designed costumes for approximately 40 productions in Canadian television and film by 2012. She won the Genie Award for Best Costume Design for ''

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'' (1999), a

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for ''

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'' and was nominated for the

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for ''

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'' (1998). In her work, she cites influences in paintings and the environment, as well as books and catalogs for stories set in the past. She ran costume design for ''The Neverending Story'' at

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. She was featured in Musée de l'Amérique francophone in the exhibit De film en aiguille in 2012. April also contributed costumes for a

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performance in Tokyo. For ''

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'' (2017), she designed costumes featuring inauthentic fur, painted cotton disguised as shearling, and breathing masks. She became a Member of the

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in 2019.

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* Best Costume Design Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Canadian costume designers Living people Members of the Order of Canada Artists from Montreal People from Rivière-du-Loup Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women costume designers {{Canada-film-bio-stub