Lyle Laize Qin
(Lai-Tse Chin)
Lyle Laize Qin is a costume designer and MFA candidate at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. He received his BFA in Environmental Design from Donghua University, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.
His practice is grounded in cross-cultural research, engaging with visual and material traditions across time to construct layered and resonant design languages. Working at the intersection of history and contemporary form, he approaches costume as a spatial and narrative medium—one that shapes the relationship between body, identity, and environment.
Recent credits include Hedda Gabler, Metamorphoses, and Macbeth. He has also designed for film projects, through which he seeks to expand his design language across mediums and extend its application into broader visual and narrative contexts.
Laize’s work investigates how design can articulate presence, tension, and transformation, forming cohesive visual worlds across theatre and film.
Email: lyleze111@gmail.com