Kara Saun

Kara Saun, known worldwide as The Fashion FairyGodmother, is the World Builder, Costume Designer, and Creative Consultant behind Disney’s mega-franchise Descendants 1, 2 & 3. An Executive Producer, Creative Director, writer, and philanthropist, Kara Saun has spent more than two decades creating iconic characters, shaping cultural identities through storytelling and design, and building immersive entertainment worlds that connect audiences across generations.

Instrumental in establishing the Descendants trilogy’s distinctive visual identity, Kara Saun created iconic character looks integral to its storytelling and cultural appeal. Working with Disney’s Franchise and Consumer Products divisions, Kara Saun connected character development with fashion, branding, licensing, and consumer experiences, extending the Descendants universe into a global entertainment ecosystem.

Across film and television, Kara Saun’s costume design credits include Sense and Sensibility, MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, NBC’s The Sing-Off, Disney’s Zapped, The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration, and Comedy Central Roasts. A standout on the inaugural season of Project Runway, Kara Saun returned for its twentieth-season All-Star competition in a deeply personal tribute to Mother Barbara Anne Saunders.

Today, as Executive Producer at Sunset Pictures and Hummingbird Entertainment at Warner Bros. Studios, Kara Saun develops film and television projects with a vision extending beyond the screen. Original intellectual property becomes the foundation for interconnected entertainment ecosystems spanning storytelling, fashion, branding, licensing, consumer products, and immersive experiences. Through Impact Entertainment, Kara Saun champions culturally resonant stories that inspire youth, empower women, and celebrate communities worldwide.

That same world-building vision drives The Fashion FairyGodmother. For more than two decades, Kara Saun has practiced Artivism—using creativity to inspire change, empower communities, and transform lives.Immersive celebrations have costumed more than 700 foster and unhoused children, transforming spaces into imaginative worlds of confidence, individuality, and belonging. Other initiatives celebrate breast cancer survivors and iconic women whose achievements have shaped history and culture.

A 10-year Ambassador for Kids in the Spotlight, Kara Saun champions foster youth as filmmakers and storytellers, and executive produced and directed Guided, selected for the Pan African Film Festival.

A member of Costume Designers Guild Local 892, Kara Saun is honored to serve as a Founding Board Member of the International Society of Black Costume Designers, advancing recognition and creative authorship for Black costume designers.

For Kara Saun, world building is more than creating extraordinary characters and entertainment universes. It is the power to celebrate culture, transform imagination into experience, and create spaces where others can see themselves as extraordinary. That is the intersection of creativity and Artivism.