Jacques Schmidt (16 March 1933 – 8 September 1996) was a French costume designer, who collaborated regularly with stage directors Antoine Bourseiller, Patrice Chéreau and Roger Planchon.

They collaborated in many later productions,[3][4] including in 1976 the Jahrhundertring, to celebrate the centenary of Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and the Bayreuth Festival, conducted by Pierre Boulez.

[2][5] In a collaboration with the same team, he designed the costumes for the first performance of the three-act version of Alban Berg's Lulu, completed by Friedrich Cerha, at the Paris Opera on 24 February 1979, again conducted by Boulez and with sets by Richard Peduzzi, with Teresa Stratas in the title role.

In 1985 he designed in collaboration with Emmanuel Peduzzi costumes for Aristophanes' Les Oiseaux, staged by Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre Renaud-Barrault in Paris.

[8] He worked at Chéreau's Théâtre des Amandiers, for example in 1985 in a production of Paul Claudel's La Ville staged by Bernard Sobel.