Shon has been designing costumes for over 30 yrs in Los Angeles and around the country.

He is a multi-award winning Costume designer and has been honored with 2 Drama Critics Circle awards, an LA Weekly Award, 5 Garlands; including one of the first Local Hero Awards, 9 Dramalogues and 2 Ovation Awards - plus numerous nominations.

Shon credits his background in Acting, and love of History, in helping him to bring his designs to life.

His love of history, “History is my drug of choice” being, is a personal quote, helped to turn him to teaching. He created and taught both classroom, and online, costume design classes for The Academy of Art in San Francisco for 5 years.

Shon had designed in several areas, including Theatre, Film, Commercials, Events, and print work.  His works in Theatre include: Straight plays, drama and comedy, Musicals, Shakespeare, classic and new works.  Including 3 National Tours of “I love Lucy, live on Stage”, 4 Athol Fugard World-Premieres; “Entrances and Exits” being archived by the Lincoln Center and featured at the Edenborough festival. He has deigned over 400 theatrical productions.  He has designed or assisted on over a dozen film projects, and was the historical consultant on commercials for Maidenform and GitHub.  Event work has included period parties, fashion shows, fund raisers, air shows, and costume displays. Print work includes a display that was part of the Peterson Automotive Museum exhibits of vintage dinners - In addition to numerous period photo stylings, for brochures and art exhibits.  Currently he is working with a group of artists on a book of vintage, Hollywood-inspired glamour shots, in the style of Hurrell.

In addition to providing costumes for the Film, TV and Theatre communities, he is also the owner of The Costume House, a full-service costume house based in North Hollywood, CA.  The shop provides costumes to schools, operas, events, and Halloween and private party clients - Doing both rentals and custom-made costumes and accessories. 

The Costume House specializes in Period, and Historical costumes and accessories - and has over 80,000 costumes, in stock. New inventory is added weekly.

Shon’s most recent endeavors include: getting back into teaching and creating a line of vintage inspired clothing.  He has adapted his costume class into a 12 week course witch he teaches at The Costume House, where he is able to give the students hands on experience and share costumes and accessories that they would not normally see.

The garments featured in the clothing line come from some of Shon’s favorite pieces, from the collection.

He has also found a niche designing Musicals for Opera Companies.  Having worked for Ash Lawn Opera in Charlottesville, Virginia and Kentucky Opera in Louisville, designing such favorites as The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, Carousel, South Pacific and the Grandfather of all musicals, Show Boat, this is his passion.   

“I like doing shows for the first time; and also revisiting a show that I have done before as you can challenge yourself to keep the show fresh and possibly use new inspirations in your design.”

– Shon LeBlanc