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ABOUT CAMILLE

With 30 years of experience working in theatre, film, television and commercials, Camille Benda has enjoyed the process of supporting directors, producers and actors in realizing their creative vision through costume design. Camille’s research-led design approach started with a love of art history and languages, evolving into a passion for character and script interpretation once she discovered costume design. Camille has had the honor of working with actors like Lily Gladstone, JK Simmons, Marisa Tomei and Sam Claflin and her most recent film is “The Last Manhunt,” set in 1907 frontier California, starring Jason Momoa and Zahn McClarnon. She designed costumes for both seasons of Apple TV+’s BAFTA, IFTA, CCA and Emmy award winning show Bad Sisters, written by and starring Sharon Horgan, with Anne-Marie Duff, Eve Hewson and Fiona Shaw.


Camille is faculty in costume design at California Institute of The Arts and holds a Master of Fine Art in Theatre Design from Yale School of Drama, and a Masters of Art from the Courtauld Institute in the History of Dress. Her first print book, “Dressing the Resistance," published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2021, celebrates the role of clothing, costume and nudity in activism and protest. Her second book, exploring fashion and gender identity, comes out in January 2026. While working in the film industry across the US and Europe, Benda enjoys presenting talks on dress history and costume design at numerous institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Costume Society, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, USC and Arts Center College of Design.