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Biography
Honorary Fellow
Sandy Powell is an alumna of Central Saint Martins and a multi award-winning Costume Designer who has won three Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards for Best Costume Design and a Costume Designers Guild Award.
Born in 1960, she was raised in south London, where she was taught to sew by her mother on a Singer sewing machine, and began experimenting with cutting and adapting patterns at a young age.
Educated at Sydenham High School, she went on to complete an Art Foundation at Saint Martins in 1978, and in 1979 she began a BA in Theatre Design at Central School of Art and Design (now Central Saint Martins.)
In 1981 she withdrew from her degree to assist a costume designer who worked for a fringe theatre company called Rational Theatre, and also began a long collaboration with Lindsay Kemp designing for him in Italy and Spain.
In 1984 when, after a spell as a costume designer on music videos, she moved into the film industry.
Her break came when the film