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Michelle Thompson obit

Michelle Thompson Dies: Costume Designer On ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’, ‘Jungleland’ & More Was 40

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Michelle Thompson, a costume designer and stylist with dozens of credits including Cha Cha Real Smooth, Jungleland and TV’s Threads, died Monday of breast cancer at her Seattle home. She was 40.

Her family revealed the news on Thompson’s Instagram page, saying in part: “She was a mother, a friend, an artist, and a fighter. … Safe travels Michelle, come visit us often if you can.” See the full post below.

Thompson’s costume designer film credits also include The President’s Sun and The Diabolical along with numerous short films featuring the likes of Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani and Kevin Bacon. She also worked on such TV series as Cruel Summer and Tales of Titans and on music videos for the British alt-rock band Placebo.

A Costume Designers Guild member who also went by Michelle Lee Thompson, she was a stylist and/or costumer music videos for Childish Gambino‘s “Sober” and Pierce the Veil’s “Bulls in the Bronx,” Christopher Guest’s Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin, the 2013 feature Abducted, and others.

Thompson also worked with brand clients including Apple, Hennessey, The Venetian and Indeed.

Thompson posted in August about her cancer diagnosis. “In 2022, while 18 weeks pregnant with my son Sasha, I was diagnosed with early stage 2B HR+ breast cancer. Which I caught on my own. [Husband] Cosimo and I made the decision to keep the baby and weather the treatments with him in my tummy,” she wrote. “I finished active treatment on Cosimo’s Birthday and we celebrated as best we could. I kept very private as something that challenging kept me really close to my family and with just enough energy to raise a newborn. … But unfortunately for me, we found out last month my breast cancer came back and it came back more aggressive and TPN. I am entering into an even scarier battle again.”

Max Winkler, who worked with Thompson on his films Jungleland and Flower, paid tribute to her in a statement to Deadline.

“Michelle’s work seemed so effortless and yet I’m unable to think of anyone who worked harder. No one stayed later, went to more thrift stores, garage sales, crossed state lines to go to more swap meets looking for the perfect piece of clothing that would help an actor totally unlock their character. I watched it countless times. A jacket, a pair of sunglasses, a perfect tank top, a worn in pair of Asics. Michelle’s taste was unmatched. She was just inherently cool.

“Although at first quiet and always private, her sense of humor was both sophisticated and goofy. She simply observed everything even without saying it out loud and then would put that into her storytelling.

“Michelle was a pure artist and a deeply good human being with a tremendous heart. None of this is fair. Today, I’m struggling to find meaning in any of it. I do know she was very proud of her work and I’m certain it will stand the test of time, however there was nothing more important to her and her legacy than her husband Cosimo and their beautiful son Sasha who Michelle’s incredible spirit and light will continue to live on through.”

Thompson is survived by her husband, Cosimo Galluzzi, and their young son Sasha.

 

Costume Designer

Dakota Johnson, Vanessa Burghardt, and Cooper Raiff in Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)

Cha Cha Real Smooth

7.3

Costume Designer

2022

 

Lexi Underwood and Sadie Stanley in Cruel Summer (2021)

Cruel Summer

7.4

TV Series

Costume Designer

2021

1 episode

 

Pluto TV x David Hasselhoff Infomercial (2020)

Pluto TV x David Hasselhoff Infomercial

Video

Costume Designer

2020

 

Charlie Hunnam and Jack O'Connell in Jungleland (2019)

Jungleland

6.2

Costume Designer

2019

 

Elemental: Hydrogen Vs. Hindenburg (2018)

Elemental: Hydrogen Vs. Hindenburg

6.3

TV Series

Costume Designer

2018

1 episode

 

Kevin Bacon in Duck: A Film by Kevin Bacon (2018)

Duck: A Film by Kevin Bacon

7.5

Short

Costume Designer

2018

 

Threads (2017)

Threads

7.2

TV Series

Costume Designer

2017

11 episodes

 

Dillon Francis: Say Less (2017)

Dillon Francis: Say Less

Video

Costume Designer

2017

 

The President's Sun (2017)

The President's Sun

5.6

Short

Costume Designer

2017

 

Zoey Deutch in Flower (2017)

Flower

6.0

Costume Designer

2017

 

Tales of Titans (2017)

Tales of Titans

7.6

TV Series

Costume Designer

2017

8 episodes

 

Captain America: Civil War Reenactors (2016)

Captain America: Civil War Reenactors

6.3

Short

Costume Designer

2016

 

Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston? (2015)

Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston?

8.0

Short

Costume Designer

2015

 

Kygo Feat. Parson James: Stole the Show (2015)

Kygo Feat. Parson James: Stole the Show

7.5

Music Video

Costume Designer

2015

 

The Diabolical (2015)

The Diabolical

4.7

Costume Designer

2015

 

Placebo: Loud Like Love (2014)

Placebo: Loud Like Love

7.3

Music Video

Costume Designer

2014

 

$50K and a Call Girl: A Love Story (2014)

$50K and a Call Girl: A Love Story

6.4

Costume Designer

2014

 

Gory Hole

Short

Costume Designer

2013

 

The Mike and Dyke Metal Show

TV Series

Costume Designer

2012–2013

3 episodes

 

Circle the Wagons

TV Series

Costume Designer

2013

1 episode

 

Bryan Cranston in Seth Rogen = Worst Person in the World (2013)

Seth Rogen = Worst Person in the World

6.1

Video

Costume Designer

2013

 

Play Date with Kumail Nanjiani Part 3

Short

Costume Designer

2013

 

Play Date with Kumail Nanjiani Part 1

Short

Costume Designer

2013

 

Play Date with Kumail Nanjiani Part 2

Short

Costume Designer

2013

 

I Need a Girlfriend by Puma

Short

Costume Designer

2013

 

Placebo: Too Many Friends (2012)

Placebo: Too Many Friends

6.2

Music Video

Costume Designer

2012

 

Josh Bateman, Chaliss Robinson, Michael Carberry, Daniel Carberry, Alexander Delgado, Rob Witt, Matt Pittman, Alexandria Everett, Morgan Bertsch, Jovan Adepo, Sasha Nizam, Nash Lundquist, Diego Alexander, and Otto Graham in Sandbox (2012)

Sandbox

7.2

Short

Costume Designer

2012

 

Costume Department

Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin (2018)

Loudon Wainwright III: Surviving Twin

6.9

costumer

2018

 

Alena Savostikova and Vic Vickers in Cool Hair (2017)

Cool Hair

5.5

Short

costumer

2017

 

The History of Exercise

6.2

Short

wardrobe

2016

 

Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp in Yoga Hosers (2016)

Yoga Hosers

4.3

assistant costume designer

2016

 

Mexican Donald Trump Hosts Mexican Saturday Night Live

3.2

Short

stylist

2015

 

Wolfgirl

8.1

TV Short

stylist

2015

 

Amber-Lauren Jones in Childish Gambino: Sober (2015)

Childish Gambino: Sober

8.5

Music Video

stylist

2015

 

Haunted House Hunters

4.1

Video

stylist

2014

 

Natasha Lyonne and Allan McLeod in Beetlejuice 2 (2014)

Beetlejuice 2

3.7

Short

wardrobe

2014

 

Paul Reubens and Karen Gillan in TV on the Radio: Happy Idiot (2014)

TV on the Radio: Happy Idiot

7.8

Music Video

wardrobe stylist

2014

 

Phil Spector Mug Shot Photo Shoot

Short

wardrobe

2014

 

The Ramones Go to Heaven

3.5

Short

wardrobe

2014

 

America's Next Sick F*Ck

Short

wardrobe

2014

 

Abducted (2013)

Abducted

4.5

costume supervisor

2013

 

Crown (2012)

Crown

6.1

Short

assistant costume designer

costume assistant

2012

 

letlive. - Muther (2012)

letlive. - Muther

Music Video

wardrobe supervisor

2012

 

Actress

Double Eagle Ranch (2018)

Double Eagle Ranch

5.2

Declining Woman II (as Michelle Lee Thompson)

2018

 

Reseda Blvd (2014)

Reseda Blvd

Park Girl

2014

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