With a nod to NYC's Fashion Week - Feb 13-20, and the touting of the hottest fashion designer's fall 2009 wardrobes, I thought it would be fun to look at some of the costume designers of the twenties and thirties. Unlike fashion designers, who have a free hand in expressing their creativity within the bounds of showing a profit, costume designers must work through the dictates of script, period, and who will actually be wearing their designs.
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Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
The costumes as worn by Lois Wilson and Rudolph Valentino
The Mystic (1925)
Costume Designer:
Erté
The costume as worn by Aileen Pringle
Madam Satan (1930)
The costume as worn by Kay Johnson
Cleopatra (1934)
The costume as worn by Claudette Colbert
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The costumes as worn by Lois Wilson and Rudolph Valentino
The costume as worn by Aileen Pringle
The costume as worn by Kay Johnson
The costume as worn by Claudette Colbert
6 comments:
Fabulous, the association design and picture is outstanding! thank you
Very nice! It's great to see the original drawings alongside the finished costumes. The Madam Satan one is my favorite.
The drawings are such works of art on their own merits - nice post!
Artistic work is beautiful. Dreaming I own all the ones from the 20s and 30s and am thin enough to wear them! But it is great just to see them together. They sure did know how to create Allure.
Exquisite!
Wonderful post about one of my favorite fashion/costume designers. Definetly one of the great fashion icons!
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