Costume Design > Designs > Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Reimagined: from glam to grunge

Hedwig and the Angry Inch gave me the opportunity to explore character driven costume design through transformation, identity, and performance. My goal was to reflect each character’s emotional journey through silhouette, texture, and styling, with a strong focus on Hedwig and Yitzhak and how their identities shift over the course of the show. I grounded the designs in early 1990s influences and grunge aesthetics, while incorporating bold theatrical elements that support Hedwig’s larger than life stage presence.

For this project, I created visual research boards, color stories, and character specific designs that track movement from constraint to liberation. Hedwig’s heavily layered opening look, including the iconic leopard print coat, contrasts with her stripped down later look to highlight vulnerability and self discovery. Yitzhak’s costumes progress from subdued masculinity to a final moment of fully realized femininity. Together, these designs support the show’s central themes of self expression, transformation, and reclaiming identity, and serve as a strong example of my conceptual costume design process.