Benjamin Cho - Costume Designer, Beauty and the Brut (2008)

Mr. Cho has formed a reputation for his daring creativity displaying his prodigious talents and his staunchly original view.  He has translated his aesthetic reverence into a decidedly American arena; modern, unique and sexy.  His collections have a pointedly post-modern air, but remain organic, artfully nuanced and idiosyncratic.  Cho's clothing finds an elegant balance between feminine and aggressive, artists to lawyers, to celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Cate Blanchett, Christina Ricci, Claire Danes, Milla Jovovich, Pink, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei and Kirsten Dunst to name a few.  Born to an opera singer mother and a NASA-employed physicist father, it is no surprise that Cho's designs display both an obsessive eye for detail and a dramatic imagination.  He recently designed the costumes for Petronio's creation Ride the Beast for the Scottish Ballet.