Is David Byrne Still Married to Adelle Lutz?

Songwriter David Bryne is no longer married to renowned designer Adelle Lutz.

The duo were only together from 1987 to 2004. They have a daughter, Malu Abeni Valentine Byrne, in 1989, and a grandson  in 2018.

Who Is Adelle Lutz?

Adelle Lutz is an American artist, fashion designer, sculptor, actress, known for using clothing as a means of communicating satirical messages.

Born on November 13, 1948, in Ohio, Lutz became famous after she designed the “Urban Camouflage” costumes used in the 1986 film True Stories. She designed other costumes for David Bryne, and the likes of Susan Seidelman, Robert Wilson, JoAnne Akalaitis, Bono and Michael Stipe.

In 1995, she “created the production design for the Bono segment of the documentary Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye.”

Lutz has also tried her hands on sculpture back in the 90s, and made a number of exhibitions at “the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fashion Institute of Technology, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Barbican Art Centre (London), the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”

Some of Lutz’s work has appeared in many books and world class magazines such as The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Newsweek, Village Voice, Vanity Fair and Paper.

Lutz has designed costumes for film, such as “Burning Down the House,” “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody),” “Road to Nowhere,” and “Love For Sale,” and “True Stories.”

As an actress, Lutz has been featured in the movies Beetlejuice (1988), Wim Wenders’s Until the End of the World (1991), Dead Funny (1994), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Something Wild (1986), Wall Street (1987), and Checking Out (1989).