Liz Vandal

Costume Designer

Liz Vandal started her career as a fashion designer. Self-taught, she entered the universe of clothing more than twenty-five years ago.

From dazzling beginnings she brought her originality to the rigorous domains of dance, circus, cinema and special projects, building a company of excellency.

Great partnerships link Liz Vandal with numerous choreographers and dance companies around the world: Edouard Lock; Compagnie Marie Chouinard; Margie Gillis; Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal; Le Ballet National du Canada; The Washington Ballet; Mannheim Theater; Stuttgart Ballet (Germany), l’Opéra de Paris; Göteborg Theater (Sweden), Hong Kong Ballet.

 

Vandal explores all domains of show business, from creating costumes for The Backstreet Boys ‘Black ‘n Blue Tour’, to films including ‘The Lathe of Heaven’ directed by Philip Haas and Quebec’s Director Manon Briand’s ‘La Turbulence des fluides’.

 

Vandal enters the circus’ world, designing flamboyant insect costumes for OVO, the 25th Cirque du Soleil show, CIRKOPOLIS, a Cirque Éloize creation and the opening duo for ‘LES 7 Doigts de La Main’s new creation ‘Tryptique’.

 

Collaborating with multi-national IGT (International Gaming Technology) in Las Vegas, Vandal created AVATAR costumes approved by Jon Landau and 20th Century Fox.

As a design, innovation, production and team synergy consultant, Liz offers her services to Sportswear multinational Oxylane, owner of Decathlon stores to develop avant-garde products.

As the company continues to expand, an incomparable opportunity leads Vandal’s creativity to Azerbaijan for the first European games in 2015 where she designs an incredible 3000 costumes for the closing ceremony.

Since 2017 Cirque du Soleil floats onto the sea, on Cruise ship Meraviglia with Vandal’s costumes dressing up two shows : ‘Viaggio’ and ‘Sonor’.

In 2018, Vandal participated in two major productions :

‘The Wizard of OZ’, co-produced by Kansas City Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Colorado Ballet and ‘Alice in Wonderland’ presented by the Honk Kong Ballet.

The Hong Kong Ballet amazing dancers are dressed by Liz in their new production of PETER PAN, premiering in 2019 and also two more shows of Cirque du Soleil on MSC Cruise ship Grandiosa will wear Vandal’s signature in 2019.

Vandal’s creativity has no boundaries !