He commissioned work from, and collaborated with, many renowned photographers, ranging from André Kertész, Jacques Henri Lartigue and Horst to David Bailey, Mario Testino, Tessa Traeger and Bruce Weber.
Carsen invited Kinmonth to design sets and costumes for his new production of Janáček's Káťa Kabanová for the Canadian Opera Company.
Kát'a Kabanová, conceived for Vlaamse Opera, has traveled extensively and was chosen to introduce the work to the Teatro alla Scala in 2006.
Audi and Kinmonth created a production of Handel's Partenope for Theater an der Wien in 2009 and in 2011 staged Vivaldi's Orlando furioso at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris as well as in Nice and Nancy.
Kinmonth's experience of creative partnerships have underpinned recent collaborations with the Flemish opera director Guy Joosten (Richard Strauss's Elektra, co-produced by Gran Teatre del Liceu and La Monnaie) and Brazilian dancer and choreographer Fernando Melo.
Whilst Intendant of Cologne Opera, Christoph Dammann invited Kinmonth to make his directorial debut with Puccini's Madama Butterfly for the German company's 2008/09 season.
The production combined ideas inspired by film noir and Scandinavian detective series with artworks and visual imagery from the time of Rubens.
[17] In a survey by critics in North Rhine Westphalia, Die Gezeichneten was nominated by both Ulrike Gondorf (WDR/DLF/SWR) and Christian Wildhagen (FAZ) as 'Best Production' of the 2012/13 season.
He first served as creative consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004, designing its exhibition Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century.
Kinmonth-Monfreda Design Projects, founded in London in 2004, launched Kinmonth's collaboration with Italian art director Antonio Monfreda.
They were employed as creative consultants to the exhibition AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion, presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York in 2006.
Kinmonth curated and designed Diana: Princess of Wales, an exhibition of iconic images and previously unseen photographs by Mario Testino created in 2005 for Kensington Palace.