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Laura Wong is a Costume Designer living and working in Los Angeles. She recently graduated with an MFA in Costume Design from UCLA and is now pursuing opportunities to design for theater and film.

Although she loves designing in many different times and places, she is particularly passionate about the study of non-Western dress. She would love to have the opportunity to work on projects that give voice to the underrepresented. Laura specializes in Japanese costume and textiles and has studied the subject extensively in Japan and in the United States. Past research topics have included Tokyo street fashion tribes, textile traditions of Japanese minority populations in Okinawa and Hokkaido, and the role of the kimono in contemporary society. In college, her research culminated in her honors thesis, which was a in a gallery show titled "Fringe Cultures". The exhibit displayed of a series of sculptural garments which synthesized elements of traditional Japanese dress with contemporary street fashion. These garments were created entirely from recycled materials purchased in the United States and in Japan, including secondhand clothing and vintage kimono.

Laura has completed several internships in both theater and film. She worked as both a stitcher and as an Assistant Designer while interning in the costume shop at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, building costumes for the neighboring INTIMAN Theater during their Tony Award-winning Summer 2006 season. In 2008 and 2009, Laura interned with Bobi Garland, Head of the Research Library at Western Costume in Burbank, CA assisting costume designers in their research for various film and television projects, as well as in the archiving and organization of the Star Collection, which is a collection of costumes that were worn by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Currently, she is working in the film industry in Los Angeles.