2021 Nobis Industry Icon Winner Glenne Campbell

Glenne Campbell, Costume Designer, based in Vancouver BC, has worked in theatre, special events, and motion picture in various international jurisdictions, with a variety of story lines and a range of costume presentations. Glenne often says her inspiration came from the 1920s period costumes in the 1967 movie, Thoroughly Modern Millie, starring Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, and Mary Tyler Moore, but it started earlier. When she was in Grade 5, her mother bought her a Singer sewing machine and signed her up for sewing classes. And yet, she has clear memories of just sitting at her grandmother's black and gold treadle sewing machine when she was three years old. There's history here. She comes by her love of costume honestly.

What Glenne gleaned from Thoroughly Modern Millie was the idea of self-learning becoming self-fulfillment. With that spark, Glenne put her hands towards costuming at every level and to every possible event requiring specialized clothing to complement the story being told. Now, at this point in her career, she is most proud of her range on the kind of costumes she had designed and the kind of stories her costumes have been able to tell.

Glenne's designing career began on 21 Jump Street. Yes, that 21 Jump Street where she dressed the young Johnny Depp. She designed for Bordertown, Lonesome Dove: The Series, Viper, and then the iconic Da Vinci's Inquest, before moving into the Battlestar Galactica universe where she experimented with mixing technologies for costumes which earned her an Emmy nomination for her work.  More recently, she designed for the series, Colony and then got to live the dream of time travel back to her ancestral Scottish Highlands when she established the look for the massive fan-favourite series, Outlander.

From contemporary to period to science fiction costuming, Glenne always looked at ways to change or improve the processes. Substance over spectacle is her motto, and her pleasure comes from working together with so many people of various backgrounds, the sharing of information and development of costuming as an art form. 

"We are enormously pleased to have Glenne Campbell as our Nobis Industry Icon Award winner this year. Not only did her designs on Battlestar Galactica garner the attention of the Emmys, she launched an intergalactic army of cosplayers who, to this day, dress the part with unwavering loyalty. Add to that the bodice-ripping fandom of Outlander, and you can see the enduring impact of Glenne's costumes. In addition to her work, Glenne has been so kind about sharing her skill set and acting as a mentor to many up-and-coming costumers on Canada's west coast. This is the true mark of a Nobis Industry Icon," said Joanna Syrokomla and Cynthia Amsden.

"I am very pleased to receive CAFTCAD's Nobis Industry Icon Award as it acknowledges the skill set, hard work, long hours and persistence required to be a costume designer. I accept it with recognition of all designers who have worked ahead of me, but were not so wonderfully acknowledged. A lifetime achievement award confirms that right choices were made and that the highs and lows were worth every minute," said Glenne Campbell.

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