Hollywood costume designer Marit Allen died of a brain aneurysm in Sydney, Australia, on 26 November 2007. Born in Cheshire, England on 17 September 1941, she studied in France at the University of Grenoble. She was nominated for a Saturn Award in 1987 for her work on Little Shop of Horrors, and nominated for Emmys in 1995 and 1998.
She was in Australia working on Justice League of America, which is scheduled to be released in 2010.
Her other genre productions include Thunderbirds (2004), Hulk (2003), Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997), and The Witches (1990).
She worked on the British society magazine Queen, and then became a fashion editor for British Vogue through the 1960s. After marrying film producer Sanford Lieberson in the mid-1960s, she moved into the film industry herself.
Ang Lee, who directed Hulk called Allen “simply the best at what she did” in her obituary in the Independent of London. “She clothed her characters, not to cover them with a preconceived image but to liberate them to express everything she dreamed they could become,” Lee said.
Allen and Lieberson had three children before divorcing in the early 1980s. She is survived by a son, two daughters, grandchildren, and a sister.