Renée April

{{short description|Canadian costume designer}} {{Infobox person | name = Renée April | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | death_date = | occupation = Costume designer | years_active = }}

'''Renée April''' {{postnominals|CM}} is a Canadian costume designer.

April is from Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/gravel-le-matin/segments/entrevue/60874/renee-april-costume-blade-runner-hollywood-villeneuve |title=Une Québécoise conçoit les costumes de films d'Hollywood |date=26 February 2018 |accessdate=17 October 2018 |publisher=Radio-Canada}}</ref> and her workshop is in Montreal.<ref name="Boisvert">{{cite web |url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts/expositions/201209/20/01-4576093-de-film-en-aiguille-les-creations-hollywoodiennes-de-renee-april.php |title=De film en aiguille: les créations hollywoodiennes de Renée April |last=Boisvert |first=Richard |date=21 September 2012 |accessdate=24 March 2017 |work=La Presse |archive-date=24 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324181005/http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts/expositions/201209/20/01-4576093-de-film-en-aiguille-les-creations-hollywoodiennes-de-renee-april.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> She designed costumes for approximately 40 productions in Canadian television and film by 2012.<ref name="Radio">{{cite web|url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/579436/exposition-film-aiguille-costume |title=Dans l'univers de la costumière Renée April |last= |first= |date=21 September 2012 |accessdate=24 March 2017 |work=Radio-Canada}}</ref> She won the Genie Award for Best Costume Design for ''Grey Owl'' (1999), a Gemini Award for ''Million Dollar Babies'' and was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Costume Design for ''The Red Violin'' (1998).<ref name="Playback">{{cite web|url=http://playbackonline.ca/2001/07/23/costumes-20010723/ |title=Costumes: from tripe to chain mail |last=Playback Staff |date=23 July 2001 |accessdate=24 March 2017 |work=Playback}}</ref>

In her work, she cites influences in paintings and the environment, as well as books and catalogs for stories set in the past.<ref name="Radio"/> She ran costume design for ''The Neverending Story'' at Muse Entertainment in Montreal.<ref name="Playback"/>

She was featured in Musée de l'Amérique francophone in the exhibit De film en aiguille in 2012.<ref name="Boisvert"/> April also contributed costumes for a Cirque du Soleil performance in Tokyo.<ref name="Radio"/> For ''Blade Runner 2049'' (2017), she designed costumes featuring inauthentic fur, painted cotton disguised as shearling, and breathing masks.<ref name="Page">{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/blade-runner-2049-costume-design-fashion-renee-april/index.html |title='Blade Runner' influenced 35 years of fashion. Can its sequel do the same? |last=Page |first=Thomas |date=4 October 2017 |accessdate=17 October 2018 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> She became a Member of the Order of Canada in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-2019-order-of-canada-appointees-have-made-their-mark-on-all-aspects-of/ |title=2019 Order of Canada appointees have made their mark on all aspects of Canadian society |last=Lapierre |first=Matthew |date=27 June 2019 |accessdate=4 July 2019 |work=The Globe and Mail}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:April, Renee}} Category:Best Costume Design Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Category:Canadian costume designers Category:Living people Category:Members of the Order of Canada Category:Artists from Montreal Category:People from Rivière-du-Loup Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Canadian women costume designers