Allan Vos was born October 3th 1980 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
He studied Styling, Visual Merchandising and Production Design in Amsterdam and Utrecht. In 2002 he started his study Fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine
Arts in The Hague. During that period he worked as an intern for designer Yoshiki Hishinuma in Tokyo Japan. After four years he graduated successfully with a more
than theatrical collection called Magic Circus, Tragic Circus. In the summer of
2009 Allan studied at Central Saint Martins in London.
Already during his last year at the Academy Cirque du Soleil offered him a job at
the costumedepartment at the European tour of the show Alegria. After that he
wanted to learn more and more about costumes so he started to work for several
costume makers. There he was asked to work for magician Hans Klok to work for his
show and the Las Vegas show. From then on, life went fast: he worked for the Disney Cruise line in the Bahamas and Florida, The Walt Disney Company USA, Stardust
Theater, Riverdance and worked for musicals such as Tarzan, Simone Songs from the
heart and Disney Sing Along for the Dutch company Stage Entertainment.
Nowdays Allan designes costumes and fashion as a freelance disigner for shows and movies such as Sinterklaas and Simone Kleinsma. He designs collections and
redcarpet-gowns for Dutch celebrities and private clients as well as special
fashion costumes for events and theme-parks such as Madame Tussauds.
He designed the celebration of 50 years Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) exhibition
and designs costumes, interiors and decors for special events.
Allan Vos is more then happy to inform you about the possibilities for your
wishes when it comes to fashion or costume for events, film, video, tv, show, commercial, theme-park or otherwise.
recent news
ALLAN FOR PAMELA TEVES AND CINDY BELL
Allan Vos designed two outfits for the Dutch premiere of the musical Wicked in Scheveningen October 6th. Pamela Teves was wearing a black long skirt and shoulderless jacket with emerald lining. Cindy Bell was wearing a long brown linnen dress with handstitched emerald Swarovski stones.
ALLAN FOR CINDY BELL
For the premiere of Miss Saigon on September 23, musical actress Cindy Bell was wearing a piece of the Musical-couture Collection. The gown is army green with hand-stitched Swarovski stones.
ALLAN FOR NEVERENDING STORY
The Never Ending Story by Theater Rabarber will come back one more time. After a very successful premiere with the Dutch Royal family as guests in the summer of 2011, the show will continue in the fall-holliday. Allan designed all costumes and re-designed the set for this fairytale.
ALLAN VOS IN TV INTERVIEW
For the TV West TV programe TisWat Allan told about his work as fashion and costume designer.
ALLAN FOR SIMONE
On mondag October 6 2010 Simone Kleinsma's last show Simones Songbook premiered in theater Nieuwe de La Mar in Amsterdam. In August 2011 Simone re-runs her show in Amsterdam. Allan was asked to design the costumes for the male singers and band. Songbook is a Joop van den Ende Theatrical Production.
ALLAN'S MUSICAL COLLECTION @ MUSEUMNACHT
Allan is presenting a specialy designed musical-couture-collection in Bel Air Hotel in The Hague. He will show the collection for one night only for the Museumnacht at September 3 2011. www.museumnachtdenhaag.nl
ALLAN VOS DESIGNS FOR 'LADY GAGA'
Allan Vos was recently asked to design costumes for the video of Lady Gaga's Dance in the Dark. A project by director Remy Schepers, who believed that the Gaga song deserved a video. Allan designed all outfits for 'Gaga' and her dancers. We created a beautiful low-budget (but looking like a million dollar) video with is already seen by 1.3 million people.