INTERVIEWS
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“Best of all are Ivy Y. Chou’s costumes, which take Jamie from white to gray to black, and Cathy from black to gray to white. Easily the most inspired costume design I’ve seen in a TL5Y production.”
- Steven Stanley, STAGE SCENE LA
“All three actors are estimable, batting lines and reactions between each other like Wimbledon champs in costumer Ivy Y. Chou’s chic wardrobe.”
- David C. Nichols, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Pera Palas is Ünel’s homage to Istanbul — a city with a pair of bridges connecting Europe to Asia. Those passages between West and East form the crux of Ünel’s epic, in the collisions of more than two dozen characters, spanning 75 years, and played here by an ensemble of 10, doubling and tripling roles. Additionally, the entire project — a joint venture of Antaeus Company and the Theater @ Boston Court — has two completely different casts that alternate. The play has three acts and follows three stories, each set decades apart… Furthermore, Ünel brings the three eras together on the stage simultaneously — defined largely by Ivy Y. Chou’s excellent costumes.”
- Steven Leigh Morris, LA WEEKLY
“The look is impeccable. Ivy Y. Chou's costumes achieve a simple opulence”
- Wenzel Jones, BACKSTAGE WEST
“and Ivy Chou’s simple but evocative costumes bring the 19th-century setting to untidy life.”
- Terry Morgan, VARIETY
“Ivy Chou’s costumes and live musical accompaniment by Chris Webb and Paul Livingstone are firmly rooted in tradition.”
- Don Shirley, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Ivy Y. Chou's bright graceful costumes are exquisite.”
- Laura Hitchcock, CURTAINS UP
“When we first meet Imelda (Liza Del Mundo), she is towering over the stage floor in what appears to be a two-story ball gown -- courtesy of costume designer Ivy Chou, whose wonderful period ensembles are a joy to behold.”
- F. Kathleen Foley, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Ivy Chou's evocative costumes are full of glamorous surprises…”
- Lisa Jo Sagolla, BACKSTAGE WEST
“McMillan, attired in Ivy Chou’s imaginatively over-the-top costuming and sporting an extra pair of arms, is not so much a goddess as a ghetto sistah who’s bent on shattering Navin’s placid life.”
- Steven Mikulan, LA WEEKLY
“Sharing credit for Christmas In Hanoi’s success are its design team…Ivy Y. Chou’s excellent costumes range from Lou’s beach bum tank top and shorts to Oanh’s ghostly Vietnamese-print gown to assorted multi-ethnic cameo outfits.”
- Steven Stanley, STAGE SCENE LA
“and the impressively varied costumes of Ivy Chou.”
- Julio Martinez, VARIETY
“At the world premiere Thursday night of Anne LeBaron’s darkly mysterious, troubling yet weirdly exuberant and wonderfully performed new opera “Crescent City,” a young Reveler in the production frolicked a few feet from where I was sitting on a folding chair along the perimeter of the experimental art space, Atwater Crossing. She wore a skirt fashioned out of the Arts & Books section of this newspaper, and she was close enough that I could read a few crumpled lines...
There is, from wherever you are, a lot to look at. The art, of course. Ivy Y. Chou’s quirky costumes…
Tenor-and-then-some Timur Bekbosunov was a riot as Deadly Belle, with his stratospheric voice and his stratospheric platform shoes…”
- Mark Swed, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Playfully costumed reveling nymphs and dryads would be equipped with little portable TV cameras and could dash about capturing images of “unseen” places and these images would appear (with English subtitles) on four giant screens placed on the four walls.”
- David Greyson, OPERA WEST
“The costumes by Ivy Y. Chou are colorful, sexy, and absolutely goofy, such as Genghis’ costume…”
- Frankie Ly, LA TACO
“And Ivy Chou's costuming is wonderfully precise.”
- Terri Roberts, BACKSTAGE WEST
“Ivy Chou costumes the 17-member ensemble in what might be called a sandals-and-combat-boots mix, melding India’s warrior past with our own warring present.”
- Steven Mikulan, LA WEEKLY
“The scenery is fairly sparse and portable, and Ivy Y. Chou's costume design, though primarily functional, showed skill and care. The male dancers wore gaudy bejeweled jocks over the family jewels, Condi Rice's form-fitting skirt and jacket suit looked perfectly anal retentive; the hip-hop dancers got lowriding baggies and the Motown-style dancers got shimmering sequins.”
- Marianne Messina, METRO SILICON VALLEY
“Ivy Y. Chou’s costumes are a nice fit for each character and Dalager and Hubilla look great in them.”
- Steven Stanley, STAGE SCENE LA