Sylbert began her career as a costume designer on the contemporary New York films "The Tiger Makes Out" (1967) and "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). She worked on the latter with then-brother-in-law, production designer Richard Sylbert, and again teamed with him on Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" (1974) for which she created the stylish period costumes and "Shampoo" (1975). She has worked also in association with then husband, production designer/art director Paul Sylbert on his directorial and screenwriting debut, "The Steagle" (1971) and then on "Bad Company" (1972) and as a visual consultant on "Mikey
