Diana Eden

Diana Eden (née Diana Moore Ede, born 1940) is a Canadian costume designer for the stage, television, and film. She has been nominated for one Primetime Emmy Award and two Daytime Emmy Awards.

Early life and career Diana Eden was born "Diana Moore Ede" in Tunbridge Wells England in 1940, however her family moved to Toronto when she was ten years old. Her father was a British medical physician and her mother Canadian. Eden began dancing at the age of five and by the age of fifteen she participated in the touring performance of the Swan Lake organazied by National Ballet of Canada.

She graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in Art and Archaeology, and immediately upon graduation she joined the National Company of My Fair Lady as a dancer, and toured with the cast for a full year. In 1980 she became a designer full-time and continued to design for the stage, including shows produced for Broadway. She also assisted Bob Mackie for the Las Vegas stage show Jubilee! as it entered the MGM Grand Hotel,

Costume design for television and film From 1985 to the series end in 1988, Eden was the resident designer for the television sitcom The Facts of Life, designing up to forty original outfits per week for the show that featured.

In the mid-1990s, Eden was the costume designer for the television drama Sweet Justice, the sitcom Ned and Stacey and the television show Family Law, which aired between 1999 and 2002. In both 2007 and 2008, she was nominated for an Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design for a Drama Series Daytime Emmy award for her work on the show. Other shows Eden designed include The Tony Danza Show, For Your Love, and Ladies Man. Television and feature films she has designed include Making Contact, Stealing Christmas, and Stealing Las Vegas.

Books In 2002, Eden co-authored the book Retro Chic: A Guide to Fabulous Vintage and Designer Resale Shopping in North America and Online with Gloria Lintermans, a how-to manual for vintage shopping. Eden stated that her book strived to determine the most important elements of past eras in fashion in order to provide advice on specific retro looks in addition to tips about retro shopping.