Costume Designer Caitlin Cisek Shows Off Her Silly, Exuberant Style

By Hazel Cills | August 4, 2017 | 4:20pm

Entertainment

Taking a peek inside Caitlin Cisek’s bright closet is sort of like looking at the wardrobe of a theater production. There are delicate vintage bathing suits, piles and piles of costume jewelry, and retro prints for days. But her range isn’t surprising, considering Cisek is a professional costume designer for stage and film productions, constantly dumpster-driving and seeking out pieces for her characters.

Cisek, who describes her style as a “mash-up” between different eras, naturally has a flair for the theatrical in her day-to-day life. Whether she’s wearing high-waisted, polyester “disco” pants or showing off an array of Hawaiian tiki dresses that are perfect for serving fondue in, it’s obvious that Cisek loves to have fun with the way she dresses. “I’ll wear this to something like a first design meeting,” Cisek says at one point while holding up a floral skirt. “Some occasion where I want everyone in the room to know they’re in safe hands. Safe, exuberant, silly, polyester hands.”