About Us
Our
Story
Costume Alchemy began in Calgary in 2019, founded by costumers Kim Lennox and Gina Bennett with a shared passion for the creative and technical side of film and theatre.
Since then, Costume Alchemy has grown and evolved into a creative business focused on film, craftsmanship, and hands-on learning. Today, the company is run by Kim, drawing on more than a decade of experience working in film and television costume departments.
Costume Alchemy provides dyeing, distressing, sewing, construction, and specialty fabrication services for costume, props, and set decoration teams, helping bring the details of a production to life.
Kim also loves sharing the techniques and skills developed through years of working in the industry through hands-on workshops. From water marbling and cyanotype to UV resin and other creative techniques, the workshops are designed to be fun, approachable, and a little bit different.
Costume Alchemy also offers a growing selection of products and supplies for the film and creative industries, bringing specialized materials and techniques to artists, makers, and production teams across Canada.
Whether you're working on a production, learning a new skill, or simply looking for something creative to do, welcome to Costume Alchemy.
Meet the Team
Co-founder
Kim Lennox
Kim Lennox is a Calgary-based costume breakdown artist and textile artist who has worked in film and theatre since 2011. She graduated from Mount Royal College in 2009 with a diploma in Technical Theatre before continuing her studies in Technical Effects for Performance at the University of the Arts London in England until 2011.
Kim has worked across costume, props and set dec departments with a focus on costume breakdown, dyeing, ageing and distressing. Her film and television credits include Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Interstellar, The Revenant, The Last of Us, Fargo and Hell on Wheels. She also worked in the Creature Shop on Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, working with the costume and textile elements of the production.
In 2025, Kim was part of the Emmy-winning Costume Design team for Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.
Alongside her industry work, Kim is the founder of Costume Alchemy, a Calgary-based textile studio offering breakdown, sewing and dyeing services, hands-on workshops, and professional costume and textile products. She enjoys sharing the practical techniques she has picked up over the years and making them accessible to other artists, makers and industry professionals.
