Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design

Author - Deborah Nadoolman Landis ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from Collins Design was reviewed on 10-Dec-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design by Collins Design. Outstanding reference! A must for movie and fashion lovers alike. Only qualm I had with it was no mention of Fred Astaire´s immaculate style.¤

2) Hardcover Book Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design by Collins Design. Do whatever you have to do to get your hands on a copy of DRESSED. It´s a visually stunning, erudite and jaw-dropping look at the best costumes and costume designs since movies began. Deborah Landis curated and wrote this hefty collection, and it is her expertise that puts the costumes in context. A beautiful book to treasure and browse.¤

3) Hardcover Book Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design by Collins Design. This turned out to be a great gift for a friend who is really into design and is a big fan of old movies. I would have liked to have seen a few pages of the book before buying, so I could get a sense of what to really expect. I would definitely think about purchasing it again--it makes a great coffee-table conversation piece!¤

4) Hardcover Book Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design by Collins Design. This book should contain pictures of things worn in the movies, and it does. I wanted more information at times, and the book made me greedy for even more images, but disappointment in this book would most likely be the result of an aficionado´s personal quirks and expectations of books of this sort. This book contains Incredible Pictures of costumes, articles of clothing that leave you awestruck by the minds that conceived of them. Pictures of a lot of folks who have passed on, shown wearing things made just for them, I think often just coincidentally in the context of a character - some so enhancing, so perfect, so flattering that all you can do is shake your head and do your best not to wallow in the comforting haze of nostalgia. A book about fashion, costume, and Hollywood. Lots of fun and illuminating facts about the people who paid for, created, made, and wore the stuff. While needing no handicap, when considering the times, the technology, the state of historical research - the realization of some of the older pieces shown in the book is staggering; achievements which broadcast themselves from page after page, from black & white stills, from the beginning of movie making [to the present by the way, which I am personally not as excited by - an inexcusable bias]. A terrific book.¤

5) Hardcover Book Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design by Collins Design. This book was certainly well thought and presented. So nice to see the glamour girls of past decades.¤

6) Hardcover Book Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design by Collins Design.

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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