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Ida Muldrow, COSTUME DESIGNER

An award winning costume designer, Ida began her career as a University Professor, teaching fashion and costume design at The Art Institute’s of Atlanta and Clark Atlanta University. Upon stepping away from teaching, she pursued and obtained an MFA degree in Costume Design from UCLA which opened the door to projects in theater and film.


Design credits from various projects include:

Television: BET

Theater:

Film: Call Me Claus/Whoopi Goldberg, Big Mama’s House/Martin Lawrence, The Five Heartbeats/Leon, The Temptations/Leon, 8 Mile/Eminem, Universal Soldier III/Jean-Claude Van Damme, The Negotiator/Kevin Spacey and Samuel L. Jackson.

Couture design for celebrities: Debbi Allen, Chaka Khan, Michael Jackson, Wynonna Judd, Cookie Johnson and Cee Cee Winans.

Ida began working with the Imagineers, the prestigious and often called “World’s most creative souls”, when she accepted the position of costume designer for Live Entertainment Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts in 2012. At Disney, she continues to tap into her genius to design Princesses, Park Theater shows and atmospheric entertainment. Additionally, Ida has designed costumes for Disney’s cruise line theater shows and international operation costumes for the Honk Kong Resort Explorer Lodge.
She is one of only four costume designers who create for six theme parks, over thirty resorts and five cruise liners.

A certified swim instructor, Ida loves to the teach swimming, play her saxophone and watch old black and white movies on the weekend. Whether creating costumes for Disney, volunteering to work with students in the classroom, or mentoring individual pupils, she demonstrates a commitment to service, excellence, innovation and integrity.

Though her skills include pattern-making, sewing, millinery, illustration and computer art, Ida’s heart remains grounded in over thirty years of mentorship. She takes pride in using her influence to train the next generation of young artists, whose worlds are just opening up to all their creative possibilities!

Testimonials

Rating: 5 out of 5.

An Executive in a high position at Disney saw the designs, loved them, and asked who did the designs. Giving compliments because he thought that my designs look like real people instead of fashion models. The Executive thought that they were ethnically representative of what is in the park and in the resorts had in those positions. Also, that costume illustrations represented the youth as well as seniors (various ages), and thought that this was a great thing. The Department was asked to continue to show diversity in age and culture just as my drawings were doing. I was asked to tutor the designers on how to illustrate “Ethnic” people for costume designs.

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Congratulated by Reed who is the Creative Director of Entertainment in Florida who said that my drawings were beautiful for the little mermaid’s dress and for the mermaid tail. He thought that the artwork and the designs are great!

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Received a Grape Soda Appreciation by Christian Leon for my work done on the Royal Tea Party on 11/20/2021