Costume Design for Powerful, Artistic, Elegant Storytelling
COSTUME DESIGN WORKS (Costume Designers Guild 892)
Blue Bastion (Fantasy comic book series) 2019
Pure (Sci-fi series) 2018
La Ciega (Narrative Short) 2018
You and Me and Him and Him and Him (Narrative Short) 2018
Letting Go (Music Video) 2018
Secret in The Wings (Play) 2017
Sci-Fi Style Transformation (YouTube Channel) 2017
Watch me (Narrative Short) 2017
Tempest (Narrative Short) 2017
Shaman (Narrative Short) 2017
Clotho’s Folly (Play) 2017
A Visitor Has Given (Narrative Short) 2016
Dependent (Narrative Short) 2016
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Play) 2016
Distant Vision (Live Cinema by Francis Ford Coppola) Costume Supervisor 2016
Tragedie de Carmen by Peter Brook (Opera) 2016
The Hood (Narrative Short) 2016
DE-FEET (Narrative Short) 2016
Haircut (Narrative Short) 2016
Love Goes Through Your Mind (Narrative Feature) 2015
Google’s Los Atlantis (Multimedia performance) 2015
Actors Anonymous “Rio” (Narrative Short by James Franco) 2015
Lainie Kazan’s Cabaret: Celebrating Franc Sinatra (Stage Entertainment) 2015
Grad Daze (Comedic Short) 2014
Green Light/ Lyrics to Life (TV series, music video) 2012
Chronogenesis (Theater/Performing art by Louis Vuitton) 2012
ASSISTANT COSTUME WORKS
FX Legion (TV series) Assistant Ager/Dyer to Francine Lecoultre 2019
Seeb x Bastille “Grip” (Music Video) ACD to Mariah Harrison 2018
Warner Brothers “Horror Made Here”(Event) Costumer to Kristin Burke 2018
Hotels. Com (Commercial) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2018
Justin Timberlake “Supplies” (Music Video) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2017
“Kredit Carma” (Commercial) Costumer to Makysha Barksdale 2017
Warner Brothers “Horror Made Here” (Event) Costumer to Kristin Burke 2017
HBO Pilot “Here Now” (TV series) ACD to Chrisi Karvonides 2017
Pepsi cola Episode 4 (Commercial) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2016
Samsung Smart Switch (Commercial) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2015
Pepsi cola Episode 3 (Commercial) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2015
Pepsi cola Episode 2 (Commercial) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2014
Pepsi cola Episode 0, 1(Commercial) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2013
Germany’s Next Top Model (TV) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2013
Phoenix 9 (Narrative Short) ACD to Ami Goodheart 2012
Costume Special Effect Works
Fox Perfect Harmony (TV Pilot) Ager/Dyer 2019
FX Legion (TV series) Assistant Ager/Dyer to Francine Lecoultre 2019

Born in Japan, Kumie split her time as an adolescent in both Yokohama and San Francisco. Kumie receive the finest education in fashion design from Parsons The New School For Design in New York. While assisting the costume designer, Kumie moved from New York to Los Angeles to focus on articulating the elements of a story through costumes for Films and TV shows.
Besides working on international award wining Pepsi Nex TV campaign and Samsung’s national TV commercials, she earned MFA in Costume Design from UCLA Theater, Film and TV program under the mentorship of Academy award nominated costume designer Dr. Deborah Landis, Emmy award winning costume designer Chrisi Karvonides and Jane Ruhm. Kumie's works include James Franco’s feature film: “Rio” in “Actor’s Anonymous”, “Grad Daze” directed by Zach Marion, “Distant Vision” an innovative live cinema written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Strongly inspired by artistic aesthetic of Eiko Ishioka, Colleen Atwood and Sandy Powell; Kumie creates and tells story through costumes. She is a member of Costume Designers Guild, Local 892.
AWARDS
Costume Designers Guild Award 2019 Excellence in short film category nomination (as ACD) Justin Timberlake music video “Supplies”
Costume Designers Guild Award 2017 Excellence in short film category (as ACD) Pepsi Nex : Momotaro Campaign Episode 4
Swarovski Award for Excellence in Costume Design 2016
18th Asia Pacific Advertising Festival (ADFEST 2015) “Advertiser of the Year”, Costume Design: Bronze (as ACD)Pepsi Nex : Momotaro Campaign Episode 0-2

