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A Century of Hollywood Costume Design
Collins Design
December 2007
On Sale: November 27, 2007
592 pages
ISBN: 0060816503
EAN: 9780060816506
Hardcover
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From the lavish productions of Hollywood's Golden Age
through the high-tech blockbusters of today, the most
memorable movies all have one thing in common: they rely on
the magical transformations rendered by the costume
designer. Whether spectacular or subtle, elaborate or barely
there, a movie costume must be more than merely a perfect
fit. Each costume speaks a language all its own,
communicating mood, personality, and setting, and propelling
the action of the movie as much as a scripted line or
synthetic clap of thunder. More than a few acting careers
have been launched on the basis of an unforgettable costume,
and many an era defined by the intuition of a costume
designer—think curvy Mae West in I'm No Angel
(Travis Banton, costume designer), Judy Garland in A Star
is Born (Jean Louis and Irene Sharaff, costume
designers), Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (Ruth Morley,
costume designer), or Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Deborah Nadoolman Landis,
costume designer). In Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design,
Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman
Landis showcases one hundred years of Hollywood's most
tantalizing costumes and the characters they helped bring to
life. Drawing on years of extraordinary research, Landis has
uncovered both a treasure trove of costume sketches and
photographs—many of them previously
unpublished—and a dazzling array of first-person
anecdotes that inform and enhance the images. Along the way
she also provides and eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at
the evolution of the costume designer's art, from its
emergence as a key element of cinematic collaboration to its
limitless future in the era of CGI. A lavish tribute that mingles words and images of equal
luster, Dressed is one book no film and fashion lover
should be without.
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