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This is one of my favorite Karen O looks, the Violent Fuzz suit. I worked with my tailor friend, Curie for this one. There’s no way I could have pulled off a suit by myself! This was, I think at SXSW and actually what makes me love this look so

Karen in the Money Dress. I’ve told this story a million times but when I first began working with Karen, I never had any idea what I was doing. I didn’t study fashion design and so I was really just winging it. I was always searching for

This costume was made for the Show Your Bones tour and it was my first time playing with print. I had long admired David Bowie’s costumes by Kansai Yamamoto and really loved his use of color and pattern. I also realized that I could make someth

This look is from the 2004 MTV Music Awards red carpet. Thank god it came together as well as it did. The idea behind it was that I wanted Karen to look like a Robert Palmer woman from the Simply Irresistible video. We never did a fitting for her dre

Leading up to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs New York City show I thought it would be fun to post a photo each day of one of Karen O’s looks! This t-shirt was actually based off a poster I’d made in the mid 1990’s while living in Chicago. I&rs

Researching @ko ‘s NYC costume. I love thinking about symbolism and how to make it work onstage.

@accidentalmovement performance last summer at Secret Project Robot

Christian Joy (b. 1973 as Christiane Joy Hultquist) is an American fashion designer and artist best known for her stage costume designs for Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer, Karen O. Using found articles and occasionally eschewing thread and print for glue and marker pens, she has influenced contemporary fashion with punk and DIY stylings.

Joy’s work has been exhibited in The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The Museum of Art and Design in NYC, the Mode Museum in Hasselt, Belgium as well as for her first solo show at the AVA Gallery in NYC. Her work has been featured across all major publications including The New York Times, Time Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Billboard, Spin, Rolling Stone, DailyMail, Refinery29 and The Huffington Post.

Christian Joy was born in Marion, Iowa, USA. She started designing in Brooklyn, NYC in 2000. With no formal training in fashion design, she started creating one of a kind hand-painted/hand-sewn t-shirts and re-designing old prom dresses. She met Karen O in 2001 and the aspiring singer soon became her favorite model. As the Yeah Yeah Yeahs began playing shows, Joy designed a fresh outfit for each occasion. As the Yeah Yeah Yeahs fame grew so did Joy's reputation and international success, enabling her to pursue her designing work full-time.

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