Photo by Milton Arellano

 

collaborations:

Vans
Topshop
Intel
Urban Outfitters
New York Fashion Week
Childish Gambino
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Alabama Shakes
Maggie Rogers
Santigold
Vogue Magazine
Nylon Magazine
+ more

 

COntact:

Studio: christianisjoycostumes@gmail.com

 

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. Christiane Joy Hultquist) is an internationally recognized costume designer and artist living and working in New York City. Upon moving to New York in 1998 and with no formal training, Christian began deconstructing used clothing found at local thrift shops. Her early looks, often created using found materials and occasionally eschewing thread and print for glue and marker pens caught the eye of Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O who began wearing Christian’s riotous looks on stage beginning a collaboration that has spanned over two decades.

In the succeeding years Christian’s works have been seen on stages, in galleries and museums around the world, as well as award shows such as The MTV Movie Awards, The Grammy’s and The Oscars. She has created looks for Childish Gambino, Maggie Rogers and Brittany Howard and worked with artists including Marcel Dzama on his recent production for the Performa Biennial 2023 in New York City.

Christian’s work has been exhibited in The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Mode Museum in Hasselt, Belgium. as well as galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Christian has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone and Spin as well as many other major publications.

In addition to her costume work Christian has created an extensive body of painting, sculptures and assemblages.

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