Stylists and make-up artists that make the UAE picture perfect for Hollywood

Costume designer Angela Schnoeke-Paasch doesn’t have a free weekend until November. Her diary is packed with television commercials, short films and movie co-productions requiring her expertise as a Hollywood wardrobe stylist and seamstress-to-the-stars.

After moving from her native Germany to Dubai in 2007, Schnoeke-Paasch carved out a niche for herself in the UAE’s burgeoning film industry.

“I believe I may own the only warehouse for costumes here in the UAE,” she says. “The movie industry is still young here, and huge archives of clothes-for-rent just don’t exist. I’ve built my business slowly over the past eight years, and it keeps getting bigger and demand stronger.”

Schnoeke-Paasch’s back catalogue of films is prodigious and includes the 2011 release Sea Shadow by Emirati director Nawaf Al Janahi and Djinn, the 2013 horror movie produced by Abu Dhabi’s Image Nation directed by Hollywood’s Tobe Hooper.

When asked about her potential involvement in movies now filming in or coming soon to the emirates – including Star Trek Beyond, War Machine and Dishoom – Schnoeke-Paasch has been sworn to secrecy.

“What to say?” she says, laughing. “It’s something I’m really not allowed to talk about. But what I can tell you is that the wardrobe teams will be huge for films of their size. Some costumes will be made, some will be sourced locally and some will be brought in from abroad.”

Original article by Rebecca McLaughlin-Duane

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Stylists and make-up artists that make the UAE picture perfect for Hollywood