LUCIA SANTA MARIA Costume Designer


Lucia is an award winning Costume designer with over 25 years experience.

Winning awards and being nominated for her flair, fashion knowledge and exacting eye for detail.

Lucia has extensive experience working in all aspects of filming including commercials, television drama and comedy and features. She has been lucky enough to have worked with some exceptional talent…Everyone from Joanna Lumley, Kim Cattrall, Antonio Banderas, Daniel Day Kim, Sam Neil, Anna Paquin, David Schwimmer amongst countless others.

Based in Oxfordshire and London, she also enjoys working internationally and speaks fluent Spanish.

“I have worked with Lucia many times over the years – she’s my go to when I’m looking for a Costume Designer. She is collaborative, creative, resourceful and most importantly, has a very empathetic understanding of character. Her approach to designing starts with the script and getting to know who the characters are, working closely with the producers and artists to bring characters to life, ensuring they have a unique look and feel. She understands actors very well and is skilled at making them feel at ease, confident and excited about their looks. She is extremely resourceful and can work with all sizes of budget without compromising the on-screen look, finding interesting ways to build a character wardrobe, from high end fashion, through boutique shopping, borrowing from designers, and special makes. On top of her skills as a Designer, she’s also an all round lovely person and her team are delightful too.”
Helen Williams, Exec. Producer, Flack 2

“Lucia has an incredible eye, is impossibly stylish and runs her department with flair and class - working with her and her team is a complete joy. We worked together on Bounty Hunters. Lucia created a modern pop style, designing the leads beautifully and imaginatively, crafting supporting characters from Mexican drug dealers to Ukrainian Neo Nazis in an incredibly fresh and vibrant way. Actors would come out of Lucia’s truck and I would be blown away by the micro detail she put into every character - a shirt here, the cut of a trouser, a vintage sunglasses frame - she is always telling the story with the clothes and building the world. She was a wonderful, whole hearted collaborator and it’s exciting to think of the worlds she is going to create next.”
Toby MacDonald, Director

“Lucia Santa Maria is a true collaborator and artist. When working with her she made my ideas realities that gave me, as an actress, the freedom to build and inform my character through her brilliant costuming. She brought humour, understanding, and a strong history of fashion with dazzles of inspired colour and design. I’d send her a photo if I couldn’t verbally communicate what I felt would work and within days I was actually trying on that idea building with her the very unique character our film called for. I had a blast collaborating with Lucia and I can’t wait to work with her again. She was an utter delight.”
Kim Cattrell, Actress


DIRECTORS

Toby McDonald
Ben Palmer
John Hardwick
Ben Taylor
Michael Cumming
Matt L Jones
Al Campbell
Jeremy Lovering
Tom Shankland
Graham Linehan
Rankin
Matt Kirkby
Paul Gay
Simon Delaney
David Lodge
Tristram Shapeero
Gordon Anderson
Andy Hamilton
Guy Jenkins
Neil Webster
David Renwick
Adam Harris
Ed Bye
Mustapha Kseibati
John Henderson
Tim Kirby
Alicia McDonald
Simon Hynde
Charles Martin Smith
Matt Lipsey
Tracey Rooney



PRODUCTION/CLIENT

Tiger Aspect
Sky 1
Sky Arts
Happy Tramp
Little Rock
The Fyzz
Hat Trick Prods
Objective Media
Avalon Prods
Left Bank Prods
Clerkenwell Films
RSA
Kream
Mentorn
B&Q
Comedy Central
Bwark Prods
Diverse
Dazed and Confused
Kudos
Red Bee Prods
CBS
Saatchi
Boots
Hyundai
Hasbro
BBC
Ruby Rock






ARTISTS

Jack Whitehall
David Schwimmer
David Walliams
Sheridan Smith
Anna Paquin
Sophie Okanedo
Sam Neil
Daniel Dae Kim
Rosie Perez
Kim Cattrall
Paterson Joseph
Philip Glenister
Antonio Banderas
Matt Berry
Kate Ashfield
Robert Lindsay
Alfred Molina
Sally Hawkins
Sheridan Smith
Joseph Fiennes
Dawn French
Jennifer Saunders
Joanna Lumley
Noel Clarke
Kelly McDonald
Catherine Tate
Jonas Armstrong
Carrie Fisher
Emelia Fox
Simon Pegg
Rik Mayall
Brian Cox
Sophie Thompson
Stockard Channing

Contact Details

[email protected]
07919 408 892
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The Split

Sister

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Produced by Lucy Dyke

Executive Producers Jane Featherstone, Abi Morgan, Jessica Hobbs & Lucy Richer

Featuring Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, Fiona Button

The drama is set in the fast paced complex world of London’s high end circuit.. following the lives of the three Defoe sisters and their formidable mother.

The show is much loved by a wide audience of over 22 million viewers world wide. With the most extraordinarily talented cast headed by Nicola Walker.

Designing the third and final part of the trilogy was a wonderful opportunity to design something high end, fashion but in a really classic way that I hope will endure.

Read this article - "Split viewers go wild over Hannah Stern's polished work wardrobe"

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Flack

Hattrick Productions with Casm Films

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Directed by Alicia Macdonald, Oliver Lansey & Stephen Moyer

Produced by Debs Pisani

Executive Producers Helen Williams & Jimmy Mulville

Featuring Anna Paquin, Lydia Wilson, Sophie Okanedo, Sam Neil & Daniel Dae Kim

Designing the second season of Flack was a brilliant opportunity to design fashion savvy characters. Using higher end designers, the great British high street, vintage and fashion graduates to dress the incredible cast we had. Watch the video chat below about my process and three of my favourite scenes from the show.


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Antonio Banderas

Banderas

Working with Antonio was fabulous. He is as charming as you would expect. Work is for his perfume campaign for Puig.

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Bounty Hunters 2

Tiger Aspect Productions for Sky 1

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Directed by Toby McDonald

Produced by Charlie Leech

Executive Producers Ben Cavey & Pippa Brown

Featuring Jack Whitehall & Rosie Perez

The second series starring Jack Whitehall and Rosie Perez, sees them on the run and on the road in both Mexico and London. Our unlikely duo in constant danger from various underground criminals

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Intelligence

Expectation and Dark Harbor Stories

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Directed by Matt Lipsey

Produced by Charlie Leech

Executive Producers David Schwimmer & Nick Mohammed

Featuring David Schwimmer & Nick Mohammed

I have now designed two seasons and one special for Sky 1 for this brilliantly funny series. The characters are charming and iconic in their comedy looks. Working so closely on ideas with David Schwimmer and the show’s creator Nick Mohammed was a wonderful experience. David plays an arrogant, maverick NSA liaison officer who arrives from the US to join a rag tag bureaucracy of cybersecurity misfits.

Motherland

Merman Productions

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Directed by Simon Hynde

Produced by Caroline Norris

Featuring Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Lucy Punch, Tanya Moodie & Paul Ready


Designing this show was such a pleasure with such well defined characters and hilarious scripts.

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Urban Myths Selection

Sky Arts

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Featuring David Avery, Matt Baynton, Sophie Rundle, Kelly Macdonald, Jamie Campbell Bower, David Ajala, Joshua McGuire, Gloria Onitiri, Emily Atack, Jack McBrayer

2019 was a chance for me to exercise my eye across the decades of the 60s to the 90s. Recreating iconic characters such as Diana, Freddie Mercury, Grace Jones, Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol to name a few!

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A Christmas Gift From Bob

Parkhouse Pictures

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Directed by Charles Martin Smith

Produced by Andrew Boswell, David Braithwaite, Philip Burgin

Featuring Luke Treadaway, Anna Wilson-Jones, Phaldut Sharma & Kristina Tonteri-Young


Designing this feature was a wonderful opportunity to represent life and hardships of living on the streets of busy metropolis of London. Creating a fairytale of hope with charming characters.

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Red Riding Hood - After Ever After

King Bert

Red Riding Hood - After Ever After

Directed by Tracey Rooney

Produced by Nick Leadbitter

Featuring Samantha Bond, Dawn French


This was a wonderful fantasy job to work on. David Walliam's brilliant idea of following up on fairytale characters as a sequel to the original story gave me a chance to really flex my creativity. We used Steam Punk image for Red Riding Hood and her Granddaughter and created a wonderful world of 'some point in the distant past' for The Wolf and all the other characters starting with Victoriana and going back to medieval times for some of the crowd.

Gangsta Granny Strikes Again!

King Bert

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Directed by Dan Zeff

Produced by Rosemary McGowan

Featuring Griff Rhys Jones, Sheridan Smith, David Walliams

This is a comedy drama sequel to the BBC 2013 movie Gansta Granny and features a stellar cast. David Walliams, Sheridan Smith, Kevin Bishop, Griff Rhys Jones, Maggie Steed.

It was a thrill to design this wildly entertaining ride which was a perfect Christmas film for families to sit down and watch together. It was such fun and a pleasure to design crazy things like the collapsing Titanic Boat and the Iceberg costume for the Sheridan and Archie to wear for a Strictly Come Dancing Style competition.

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Toast of London

Objective Media Group

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Directed by Michael Cumming

Produced by Izzy Mant

Featuring Matt Berry, Robert Bathurst, Doon Mackichan & Harry Peacock


Matt Berry’s unhinged creation of bonkers brilliance! An ageing thespian and his antics as Steven Toast the eccentric actor with a chequered past.

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CBS Rebrand

Studio Hansa

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Directed by Nick Scott

Produced by Studio Hansa



As the title suggests, idents for the re-branding of the drama channel showing a heightened reality version of different film genres.

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LUCIA SANTA MARIA Costume Designer