Posted in Arts, Events, Fashion, Uncategorized, tagged 2023 Oscars, Best Costume Design Oscar, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever costumes, costume designers, Ruth E. Carter on March 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Costume designer Ruth E. Carter took home the 2023 Oscar for Best Costume Design for her work on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Carter is the first African American to win two Oscars, her first in 2018 for Black Panther.
The array of costumes in this film is amazing. Not to mention the detail. (Click here to see a short video on the costumes.)
Congratulations to Ms. Carter!!
Posted in Events, Fashion, Uncategorized, Vintage, tagged 1920s style, Adrian, Anna Wyckoff, costume designers, fashion in film, fashionable quotes, Greta Garbo on February 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Costume designer Adrian and Greta Garbo on the set of The Single Standard.
I first realized Costume Design was an occupation while watching Greta Garbo in the 1920s film, A Single Standard. Adrian’s costumes succinctly captured a free-thinking, strong-willed character through her louche, striped pajamas. The casual, masculine silhouettes with a nautical flair were antithetical to women of the time, a radical rethinking of the uniform women were expected to wear. I was mesmerized.
Anna Wyckoff, editor-in-chief, The Costume Designer: The Official Magazine of the Costume Designers Guild.
Adrian (1903-1959) designed costumes for over 250 films from the 1920s through 1941. He’s known for such iconic films as The Women (1939), Camille (1936), and The Wizard of Oz (1939). Adrian worked with many a film superstar including Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, and Katharine Hepburn.
Despite Adrian’s popularity and success in Hollywood, he was never nominated for an Oscar.
Speaking of the Oscars – they are fast approaching. Sunday, March 4th.
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