Kim Willa

American costume designer who won Tony Awards for her costume designs for the Broadway shows, Sophisticated Ladies (1981) and The Will Rogers Follies (1991). She received an additional four Tony Award nominations and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design twice. Kim designed costumes for the American Ballet Theatre as well as other dance companies, including more than 50 works for Eliot Feld. Furthermore, in 2007 Kim was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, making her one of only a handful of costume designers so honored. Her other Broadway credits include Bosoms and Neglect (1979). In 1955, Kim married childrens book illustrator and Paris Review co-founder William Pene du Bois, who was also the cousin of her mentor Raoul Pene Du Bois. Kims brother, Colonel Young Oak Kim, was a highly decorated U.S. Army combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War. Willa Kim died on 23 December 2016 at the age of 99 in Vashon Island, Washington. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less