Tutia Schaad is a Swiss-Vietnamese fashion and costume designer and professor of fashion design at Atelier Chardon Savard Berlin. During her studies at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Tutia Schaad gained work experience in Paris at the Givenchy Haute-Couture and Prêt-à-Porter design studios with Ricardo Tisci. In 2009, she co-founded the fashion label Perret Schaad. Her label created and marketed collections that were shown during Fashion Week Berlin in locations such as the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Hellweg DIY store and the David Chipperfield Headquarters, Berlin.
Tutia Schaad founded her own design studio in 2018 and has since created fashion and costumes for contemporary theater and dance productions at institutions such as the Staatstheater Hannover, the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Vooruit in Ghent, the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich, Kaat in Yokohama, the Staatstheater Cottbus, the Thalia Theater and the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and directed by Toshiki Okada, Lola Arias, Milena Michalek and Robert Lehniger, among others.
At the Zurich Schauspielhaus she designed costumes for "Die Möve", directed by Christopher Rüping.