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About

Rafaella Rabinovich is an award winning, internationally trained costume designer.

Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel and Buenos Aires, Argentina -Canadian born Rabinovich moved to British Columbia to further her career. After attending the Rakefet Levy Design School of the Performing Arts, she received her BA in Costume and Set Design and went on to advanced training in theatrical prosthetic at the German Kryolan Academy in Berlin, advanced pattern making at the Canadian Pacific Academy in Victoria and shoe making at the Israeli Guild of Design.

 

Rafaella has a diverse career, working across all mediums of film, television, commercials, stage musical and dance, including two different shows with Cirque Du Soleil, and internationally in South America and Europe - with her unique eye and a passion for creating costumes that capture the character’s essence and bring a story to life, she is dedicated to making each of her designs unique and memorable. Her work has been recognized with multiple awards, and she continues to create stunning costumes with her signature style.

 

She has designed numerous TV shows, feature films and live performances, with notable networks like ABC, TBS, Lifetime, Discovery Channel, Disney, Netflix and Awesomeness Film.


Designing multiple anticipated production such as the Netflix movie To All The Boys I've Loved Before showcasing her highly praised work, following with a Daytime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Costume Design for her work on Project MC2 and multiple other nominations and honors with the Leo and CAFTCAD Awards through out the years, including the prestige honour of The Costume Society of America Design Award recipient for 2019.
 
Between 2021 and 2023 she has completed designing the costumes on Peace based on Richard Bausch's  WW2 novel, directed by Robert Port as well as TBS's fourth season of The Detour and Broken Diamonds starring Ben Platt and Lola Kirke directed by Peter Sattler as well as The Imperfects for Netflix and Nomadic pictures among other productions and projects she is immensely proud of.

 



 

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