Michael Kaplan (costume designer)

Michael Kaplan is an American costume designer for film. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kaplan has been working in the Hollywood film industry since the 1978 film "Thank God It's Friday".
He won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for "Best Costume Design" together with Charles Knode in 1983 for his costume design work on "Blade Runner", the first theatrically-released film he had worked on as costume designer. He went on to become a nominee in the Costume Designers Guild Awards 1999 and the Costume Designers Guild Awards 2005 in the category of "Excellence in Costume Design for Film - Contemporary" for his costume designs for "Fight Club" and "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", respectively.
Besides "Fight Club", Kaplan has worked on three other films for director David Fincher: "Seven", "The Game", and "Panic Room". He also reunited with "Blade Runner" director Ridley Scott on "Matchstick Men". Kaplan's other credits include two films for Michael Bay, "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor". He also worked on "Flashdance", "Clue", "Perfect", "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation", "Malice", "The Long Kiss Goodnight", "Gigli", "Miami Vice", "I Am Legend" starring Will Smith, J. J. Abrams' "Star Trek" and "Star Trek Into Darkness", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" for director Jon Turteltaub, and "Burlesque", starring Christina Aguilera and Cher. His contribution to "Burlesque" resulted in a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination for "Excellence In Contemporary Film".
Kaplan reunited with Abrams for the first film in the "Star Wars" sequel trilogy, ', and returned to the franchise as costume designer for both ' and "".