Katy McPhee

Katy McPhee is a costume designer who has thirty years of experience working in TV, film and theatre. In this time Katy has embraced the challenges of designing for any historical period. She has a BA(Hons) in Theatre Design from Wimbledon School of Art and was senior wardrobe supervisor for the TV series, Departure, and a costume designer on the drama series, Case Sensitive.

Katy is also stylist to Sir Paul McCartney and has worked with him on numerous music videos including Dance Tonight directed by Michel Gondry, Appreciate directed by Andre Chocron, and commercials for Apple and JBL. Other commercials include Wella Professional for Ketchum PR and B Skycard.

Clothes are Katy’s passion and she has a vast resource of designers, makers, and suppliers from which she can source a specific item or create a look from scratch. She was a costume designer on drama documentaries for the BBC such as The History of Venice and Pinochet in Suburbia, as well as Agatha Christie—A Life directed by Richard Curson Smith and Glengarry Glenross directed by David Mamet. Katy was a stylist on Simply Red’s music video Holding Back the Years, and Echo and the Bunnymen’s Bring on the Dancing Horses directed by Anton Corbijn.