Dress Up and Play

Mad Wars

HBO must be getting jealous that another cable network is having a long running tv drama hit because they've greenlit a period monstrosity that while in production will eat New York that will make all of us who live here beg for more Law & Orders.

Boardwalk Empire is set in 1920s atlantic city and is stun-nun-nun-ing.... but by the this article sounds like they're already buying excedrin in bulk due to the high production value.

 

More research to follow.... looks scrumptious though doesn't it!

Fantastic Mr. Fox Design and Film Competition | The Rushmore Academy

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http://www.rushmoreacademy.com/2009/09/12/fantastic-mr-fox-design-and-film-competition

"The Rushmore Academy" and Gen Art is holding a contest for designers and filmmakers in celebration of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Design your own costume based on the film and win cash prizes. Click the link for more info!

Catherine Marie Thomas plants 'Garden' - Entertainment News, Women's Impact Report '09, Media - Variety

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Here's a nice little blurb over at Variety on Catherine Marie Thomas, Drew Barrymore's newest favorite designer and whose worked we all know and loved on Grey Gardens.

AMC - Blogs - Mad Men - The Mad Men Fashion File - Q&A With Costume Designer Janie Bryant

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Visit AMCtv.com to see a lengthy interview with Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant! (Look at that huge wardrobe department! It's the inside peeks that really get me excited.)

Random Costume Sketch

Hello everyone! So sorry for my long absence. I am currently in Production designing Angels in America- a fantastic project but no small feat! So I just thought for this installment of "Random Costume Sketch" i would show you one of my own, Prior, the lead character. I'll be back to regular posts soon.

Where The Wild Things ARe

This isn't exactly costume related, but it's a great little featurette on the upcoming 'Where The Wild Things Are' directed by Spike Jonze. It's talks with the original illustrator and author of the book, Maurice Sendak, and touches on the visual life of the film.

Coco Avant Chanel costumes part.2 The Rise

Part 1

‘She was the first good-looking couturier and because of her own strong look, everybody wanted to copy her. She was an artist who intellectualised couture for the first time,' explains Catherine Leterrier, costume designer of the exquisitely costumed film Coco Avant Chanel.

 

Legend has it Coco was preparing for a party and suddenly was inspired to cast off the traditional frou frou girly look for some male dominated pants. Myth has swelled to a point that she is now known as the first woman ever to wear pants.

 

"The fashion of that period was lovely, so it was difficult to show that Coco looked better than all these elegant women." - Catherine Leterrier

 

Coco Chanel's major influences were the introduction of menswear inspired pieces for women and the innovative use of jersey fabrics.

"she was her own muse", says Leterrier. 

Part 3 of Coco Avant Chanel costumes coming soon.....

Random Costume Sketch

Hot Tea in a Cup. Brought to you by the Follies era.

Madonna costume

Arianne Phillips was the subject of the last post... so it's only fitting that we talk about Madonna for a second. Here is a costume sketch from Givenchy for her Sticky and Sweet Tour. Arianne Phillips was the costume designer for the Sticky and Sweet Tour. As she usually does with all of Madonna's tours, she designed pieces, shopped for other pieces, and of course, specially commissioned labels such as Givenchy to custom make costumes for Madonna. It's quite a feat.

Can't tell you how much we love the lacings all the way up to the knee- so great.

Arianne Phillips

FANTASTIC article in the NY Times centered around costume designer Arianne Phillips ... she is quite amazing.

Read it here NOTE: you might have to click on the words to get the graphics unscrambled... I had to do that quite alot.