---
name: "Gareth Pugh"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gareth-pugh"
fi1m_id: "gareth-pugh"
imdb_id: "nm5700544"
tmdb_id: 1705818
wikidata_id: "Q2416101"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "31 August 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T21:21:58.933815+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gareth Pugh

## Identity

Gareth Pugh

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gareth-pugh
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gareth-pugh
- **IMDb ID:** nm5700544
- **TMDB ID:** 1705818
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2416101
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Pugh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2416101, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5700544/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1705818

Production designer. Born 31 August 1981 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 31 August 1981, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- **Active:** 2025–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Carson McColl](https://film.one/person/carson-mccoll.md), [Danny Boyle](https://film.one/person/danny-boyle.md), [Jack O'Connell](https://film.one/person/jack-oconnell.md), [Alex Garland](https://film.one/person/alex-garland.md), [Alfie Williams](https://film.one/person/alfie-williams.md), [Ralph Fiennes](https://film.one/person/ralph-fiennes.md)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 75 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Horror 2, Science Fiction 2, Thriller 2, Drama 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $210m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Pugh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2416101, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5700544/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1705818

## Coming up

- *Ink* (2026-12-11), Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/ink.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*28 Years Later*](https://film.one/film/28-years-later.md) (76), [*28 Years Later: The Bone Temple*](https://film.one/film/28-years-later-the-bone-temple.md) (74)

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## Biography

Gareth Pugh is a British fashion designer and costume designer. Born in Sunderland in 1981, he began working as a costume designer for the National Youth Theatre at the age of 14. He studied at City of Sunderland College before completing a degree in fashion design at Central Saint Martins in 2003.

Pugh gained prominence in the mid-2000s for his avant-garde, sculptural fashion collections shown in London. He has designed for performers including Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Kylie Minogue, and received the ANDAM Fashion Award in 2008. With his husband and creative partner Carson McColl, he leads the studio Hard + Shiny and has worked on theatre, ballet and performance projects.

Pugh and McColl served as both costume designers and production designers on Danny Boyle’s *28 Years Later* (2025) and Nia DaCosta’s *28 Years Later: The Bone Temple* (2026). Their earlier screen credit includes costume design on the 2023 television special *Free Your Mind: The Matrix Now*.

*Sources: imdb.com, vogue.com, dazeddigital.com, en.wikipedia.org, showstudio.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *28 Years Later: The Bone Temple* (2026), Fi1m 74, Production Design, Production design, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/28-years-later-the-bone-temple.md)
- *Ink* (2026), Fi1m 64, Costume design, Production design, Production Design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/ink.md)
- *28 Years Later* (2025), Fi1m 76, Costume Design, Costume design, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/28-years-later.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ink* (2026), Production Design, Costume Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/ink.md)
- *28 Years Later: The Bone Temple* (2026), Production Design, Costume Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/28-years-later-the-bone-temple.md)
- *28 Years Later* (2025), Production Design, Costume Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/28-years-later.md)
- *After Louise* (2019), as Production Intern

## Gallery

- ![Gareth Pugh](https://film.one/media/person/7353/gallery-203188b194d6.jpg) Gareth Pugh — CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Rsz_Gareth_pugh_london.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Galleria del Costume (Florence) (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/7353/gallery-1d7e022e66c6.jpg) Galleria del Costume (Florence) (2019) — Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Gareth_pugh%2C_abito%2C_p-e_2018%2C_01.jpg/1280px-Gareth_pugh%2C_abito%2C_p-e_2018%2C_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Galleria del Costume (Florence) (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/7353/gallery-5ab1c2cdf6f0.jpg) Galleria del Costume (Florence) (2019) — Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Gareth_pugh%2C_abito%2C_p-e_2018%2C_02.jpg/1280px-Gareth_pugh%2C_abito%2C_p-e_2018%2C_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Li Yuchun in Gareth Pugh, at 2015 WhyMe Chris Lee Chengdu 10th anniversary concert.](https://film.one/media/person/7353/gallery-31340b9b5707.jpg) Li Yuchun in Gareth Pugh, at 2015 WhyMe Chris Lee Chengdu 10th anniversary concert. — Lee weekly, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Li_Yuchun_2015_Chengdu_WhyMe_Chris_Lee_Concert_part4.jpg/1280px-Li_Yuchun_2015_Chengdu_WhyMe_Chris_Lee_Concert_part4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Li Yuchun in Gareth Pugh, at 2015 WhyMe Chris Lee Chengdu 10th anniversary concert.](https://film.one/media/person/7353/gallery-7581d75a67dd.jpg) Li Yuchun in Gareth Pugh, at 2015 WhyMe Chris Lee Chengdu 10th anniversary concert. — Lee weekly, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Li_Yuchun_2015_Chengdu_WhyMe_Chris_Lee_Concert_part4_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- ANDAM 2008: ANDAM (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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