Adelle Lutz

Adelle Lutz is an American artist, designer, and actress whose art and design treat clothing as a way of communicating, through unconventional materials. Her breakthrough came with the surreal Urban Camouflage costumes she devised for David Byrne's film True Stories (1986), and she went on to design costumes for directors such as Susan Seidelman and Robert Wilson and for musicians including Byrne and Michael Stipe before moving into sculpture, installation, and performance in the 1990s. Her work has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in 2002 the Judith Clark Costume Gallery in London staged a survey of her career. From 1986 to 1995 she also acted, with supporting parts in Beetlejuice (1988) and Until the End of the World (1991) and in Something Wild (1986) and Checking Out (1988). Her role as Aung San Suu Kyi came in Beyond Rangoon (1995), and in 1990 she co-directed a music video for Erasure.