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Londoner, Sandy, studied at St Martins School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design where she specialised in theatre design, She started her professional career in fringe with the National Theatre working on numerous productions including Orders of Obedience and Rococo, She went on to design sets and costumes for productions of Lumiere and Son, Bright Side and Culture Vulture, As a student and one of the leading lights of the international theatre scene she most admired was Lindsay Kemp, the gifted director, designer and performer, On impulse she spoke to him on the phone and said how much she wanted to work with him, After seeing samples of her work he asked her to join him in Milan as costume designer for his theatre company, During her 3 year spell with him she worked on Nijinsky which was a study of the start and madness of the great Russian dancer, She also designed the costumes for The Big Parade, a tragic- comic homage to the silent screen, and the stage and screen versions of A Midsummer Nights Dream, In 1985 she rapidly established herself in the world of video working on many pop promos with director Derek Jarman and with him on his film Caravaggio, and Zenith's For Queen and CountryThe wings of the dove, Shakespeare in love, The aviator, The young Victoria, Carol, The favourite, etc.- Costume Designer
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Colleen Atwood was born on 25 September 1948 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA. She is a costume designer, known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Chicago (2002).Sleepy Hollow, Chicago, Memoirs of a geisha, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, etc.- Costume Designer
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Jenny Beavan was born in London, England, UK. Jenny is a costume designer and actor, known for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Cruella (2021) and The King's Speech (2010). Jenny was previously married to Ian Albery.A room with a view, Maurice, Howards end, Gosford Park, Cruella, etc.- Costume Designer
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Edith Head was born on 28 October 1897 in San Bernardino, California, USA. She was a costume designer and actress, known for Sabrina (1954), All About Eve (1950) and Roman Holiday (1953). She was married to Wiard Ihnen and Charles Head. She died on 24 October 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.The heiress, All about Eve, Carrie, The ten commandments, The sting, etc.- Costume Designer
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Adrian Adolph Greenburg, born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, March 3, 1903, to Gilbert and Helena (Pollack) Greenburg. He began his professional career while still attending the New York School for Fine and Applied Arts by contributing to the costumes for "George White's Scandals" in 1921. He is credited for that production by his created name of Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's first name and his own. He transferred to NYSFAA's Paris campus in 1922 and while there was hired by Irving Berlin. In the fall of 1922 he returned to New York and began work on Berlin's 1922-1923 edition of "The Music Box Revue". Adrian continued to work on the Berlin reviews as well as other theatrical and film projects.
His big film break was designing costumes for Mae Murray in her first M.G.M. film, The Merry Widow (1925). He was then hired by Natacha Rambova to design for the independent films of her husband, Rudolph Valentino. In mid-1925, after designing costumes for the prologue of "The Gold Rush" at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Adrian was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to become head of the wardrobe department at his new studio. When DeMille moved to M.G.M. in 1928, Adrian moved there also. When his DeMille contract expired, Adrian signed with M.G.M. and remained with that studio until 1942.
He opened his own very successful couture business and continued to do some films until such time as his business expanded, with a salon in New York as well as Beverly Hills. His fashions were sold in department stores around the U.S. and he was the recipient of the 1944 Coty Award for Fashion. He also received a Lord & Taylor award for his work on Marie Antoinette (1938) in 1938 and a special award from Parsons, the successor to NYSFAA. His last film was Lovely to Look At (1952). He retired from the fashion industry in 1952 after a heart attack. He relocated to Brazil with his wife (since 1938) actress Janet Gaynor and their son, Robin. He returned to the U.S. to do "Grand Hotel", a musical with Viveca Lindfors and Paul Muni and his last career credit was the costume design for the Broadway musical "Camelot". He was working on this production when he died of a heart attack on September 13, 1959. Adrian never received an Oscar.Anna Karenina, Romeo and Juliet, Camille, Marie Antoinette, The wizard of Oz, etc.- Costume Designer
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Milena Canonero grew up in Genoa. She studied design and costume in Genoa before moving to England to finish her studies. Milena's film career started with Stanley Kubrick, designing the costumes for three of his films: Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), winning her first of her four academy awards, and The Shining (1980). Milena has worked with Alan Parker, Midnight Express (1978), Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire (1981) her second Oscar. Francis F. Coppola, Cotton Club (1984), Godfather III (1990), Sydney Pollock, Out of Africa (1985), Louis Malle, Damage (1992), Warren Beatty, Dick Tracy (1990) and Bulworth (1998) Julie Taymor, Titus (1999) Roman Polanski, Carnage (2011), and the legendary director, Manoel De Oliveira, Belle Toujours (2006), Sofia Coppola, Marie Antoinette (2006) brought her third Oscar. She has also production designed Barbet Schroeder's Single White Female (1992) and Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli's Last Summer 2014 and designed costumes for opera productions at La Scala, The Vienna opera House, The Metropolitan Opera and the Garnier Opera de Paris. She was also a producer on Romeo and Juliet (2013). Canonero has collaborated with Wes Anderson on The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) winning her fourth Oscar.Barry Lyndon, Dick Tracy, Marie Antoinette, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French dispatch, etc.- Costume Designer
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Swiss-born René Eugène Hubert studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in St. Gallen and at the Beaux Arts in Paris and subsequently worked for the noted fashion designer Jean Patou. He did some costume design for theatrical revues in Berlin and France (including for the Folies Bergère at the Casino de Paris), where his work attracted the attention of star actress Gloria Swanson. Swanson managed to persuade Hubert to join her in Hollywood as personal designer for her entire personal and professional wardrobe and he ended up signed to a two-year contract at Paramount in 1924 (inevitably specialising in Gloria's pictures, beginning with Madame Sans-Gêne (1925)). After his contract expired, Hubert made the rounds of other studios: MGM (1927-1931); under the auspices of Charles Le Maire at 20th Century Fox (1931-1935); at Alexander Korda's London Films (1935-1938), where he designed the futuristic costumes for Things to Come (1936); then back at Fox (1943-1950).
He excelled at period costume and was engaged on many A-grade historical dramas, including Fire Over England (1937), That Hamilton Woman (1941), Jane Eyre (1943), Dragonwyck (1946), Forever Amber (1947) and Anastasia (1956). Hubert died in June 1976 at the age of eighty, leaving behind a rich legacy of distinctive watercolour and pencil sketches of his designs.That Hamilton woman, Heaven can wait, Jane Eyre, A roya scandal, Forever Amber, etc.- Costume Designer
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The brilliant and talented Walter Plunkett was born June 5, 1902, to James and Frances Plunkett of Oakland, California. He studied law at the University of California, but was hardly as interested in becoming an attorney as he was in his involvement with the campus' theatrical group. Making the quick change in careers, Walter moved to New York in 1923, where he began work as an actor, as well as a costume and set designer, on the stage. He drifted through the gay circles of Greenwich Village and was referred to Hollywood. He moved back to California, this time to the movie capital, and found work as an extra. He can be spotted dancing with Irene, another future top designer, in Erich von Stroheim's The Merry Widow (1925). In 1927, Walter's first (credited) work as a costume designer first appeared on screen for Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927). During the late twenties and early thirties, while working at RKO, Plunkett managed to fashion the enormous costume and wardrobe department into a department that was both efficient and creative. With so much free reign, Walter set about creating outstanding costumes that rivaled the work of his contemporaries, such as Travis Banton and Adrian. His two best-known films were Gone with the Wind (1939) (including that dress made from green velvet drapes, probably the most famous movie costume of all time), and Singin' in the Rain (1952), in which he lampooned the very style his work had begun in (the roaring 20s). Walter was well-liked by most people for his generous and easy-going nature, as well as his inventiveness and ingenuity. Walter retired from films and spent the last years of his life with his partner Lee. He died in 1982, leaving Lee his estate.Little women, Gone with the wind,A song to remember, Madame Bovary, Singing in the rain, etc.- Costume Designer
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Danilo Donati was born on 6 April 1926 in Luzzara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a costume designer and production designer, known for Romeo and Juliet (1968), Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Flash Gordon (1980). He died on 1 December 2001 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.Il vangelo secondo Mateo, Romeo and Juliet, Satyricon, Amarcord, Il casanova, etc.- Costume Designer
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Orry-Kelly helped to revolutionize the Warners Costume Department after he joined the studio in 1932. He was one of the first legitimate fashion designers to design for the cinema Although he could easily adapt himself to the tattered prison uniforms of "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", he was most at home in the world of haute couture. He also played a special role in glamourizing such stars as Bette Davis, whom he first costumed when she played a society party girl in "The Rich Are Always with Us" in 1932, and later helped through the transformation from ugly duckling to glamorous swan in "Now, Voyager". The Australian-born designer won an Oscar for his work on "An American in Paris" in 1951. He died in 1964 at the age of 66.Jezabel, The private lives of Elizabeth and Essex, An American in Paris, Les girls, Some like it hot, etc.- Costume Designer
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Distinguished American costume designer, who worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including John Huston, William Wyler, Cecil B. DeMille and Robert Wise. Abandoned by her parents at an early age, Dorothy Jeakins was educated at schools in San Diego and Los Angeles. Early in her childhood, she demonstrated an aptitude for drawing, which won her a State of California Scholarship at the Otis Art Institute. She supplemented her studies by working as a live-in servant with local families. After submitting some very good illustrations to the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, she was taken on by the Southern California Arts Project. In 1936, Dorothy held a job in the colour department at Walt Disney studios, painting animated cells of 'Mickey Mouse' for $16 a week. Her first work in fashion design was doing layouts for Magnin's Department Store, which attracted the attention of 20th Century Fox art director Richard Day. Day then brought her to the attention of film director Victor Fleming. Before long, Dorothy was seconded to the studio wardrobe department as an illustrator under Ernest Dryden.
Her big break came when she was hired by Fleming as sketch artist for Joan of Arc (1948). Fleming liked her work so much that he promoted her to design the costumes for the picture, effectively replacing the previously designated Barbara Karinska (though both ended up sharing the Academy Award in 1949). Dorothy won her second Oscar, back-to-back, for Samson and Delilah (1949), along with the legendary Edith Head. Within a very short time, Dorothy established a reputation for sense of style and an eye for colour. She had a notable penchant for period and/or ethnic themes. She was also said to design to the specific requirement of each individual picture and director, rather than asserting her own personal stamp over the project. Throughout her subsequent career, she remained doggedly free-lance, never under long-term contract to any individual studio. Her work also encompassed theatrical costume design, notably for the Shakespearean festival in Stratford, Connecticut, and, for John Houseman on Broadway.
Dorothy Jeakins was nominated for a total of 12 Academy Awards, winning her third for The Night of the Iguana (1964). Among her best showcases are Niagara (1953) (who could ever forget Marilyn Monroes sexy red dress ?), Friendly Persuasion (1956), Elmer Gantry (1960), The Music Man (1962), The Way We Were (1973) and Young Frankenstein (1974). Her last film was John Huston's The Dead (1987), for which she used mud colours to convey the oppressive atmosphere of social life in Dublin in 1904. From 1967 to 1970, she held the position of curator of textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.Joan of Arc, My cousin Rachel, The way we were, The dead, etc.- Costume Designer
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Gabriella Pescucci was born in Rosignano Solvay in Tuscany in 1943 and began her film career as an assistant to Piero Tosi in the late 1960s. By the 1970s she was working as a costume designer in her own right with several films for Giovanni Patroni Griffi and also for Fellini, making her international debut in 1984 with 'Once Upon a Time in America', for which she took the first of her two British Film Academy Awards, the second being for 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'. In addition to her film work she has designed for the opera, notably 'La Traviata' at the Archimboldi Theatre, Milan and 'A Masked Ball' at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C.Once upon a time in America, La famiglia, The age of innocence, Agora, etc.- Costume Designer
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Nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, charismatic costumer Irene Sharaff once declared "you can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a a rare thing" (NY Times, August 17, 1993). During her long and distinguished career, Sharaff became known as much for her meticulous attention to detail and her sense of colour as for her versatility in adapting to many genres and periods. For this, she drew inspiration from a wide variety of sources, which included impressionist and post-impressionist painting.
Irene Sharaff received her training from the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, the Arts Student League and at La Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Her first work in the world of fashion was as illustrator for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She then served a two-year apprenticeship as assistant designer under Aline Bernstein at the Civic Repertory Theatre Company. Her first own creations appeared in Broadway by 1932. She also added scenery design to her portfolio for Eva Le Gallienne's production of "Alice in Wonderland" (1932) and for the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo. Further accolades came her way for her costuming of Gertrude Lawrence, who played a fashion designer in "Lady in the Dark". Sharaff was nothing, if not prolific on Broadway, beginning with the musical revue "As Thousands Cheer" (1934), for which she created an entire ensemble of sepia-toned costumes to resemble early rotogravure pictures. Her versatility also encompassed designing for the American Ballet Theater and the New York City Ballet. Her private time was spent sculpting and painting.
Sharaff eventually attracted the attention of Hollywood producers. However, she would only spend a total of four years under contract: at MGM, for the Arthur Freed unit, between 1943 and 1945; and at RKO from 1946 to 1948. The rest of her time in Hollywood was strictly free-lance. At MGM, her use of vibrant colours (she was fond of saying, that she saw everything "in blocks of colour"), became ideally suited to the new Technicolor process. An understanding of movement in the design of dresses also became a key element in her work on musicals. Sharaff did her best designs in the 1950's on Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), An American in Paris (1951), Guys and Dolls (1955) and The King and I (1956). For the latter, she created history twice: first, by convincing Yul Brynner to shave his head; secondly, for her prodigious use of Thai silk, which created such a stir in the world of high fashion that the product ended up becoming Thailand's number one export.
From the late 1950's, Sharaff often alternated work on the same production for both Broadway and Hollywood, notably West Side Story (1961)(stage version, 1964) , Flower Drum Song (1961) (stage version, 1958) and Funny Girl (1968) (stage version, 1964). She became a favorite costumer of Elizabeth Taylor, designing in starkly contrasting styles the bohemian/swinging sixties outfits she wore in The Sandpiper (1965), her flowing, ornate renaissance dress in The Taming of The Shrew (1967) and, in collaboration with Renié, her opulent costumes for Cleopatra (1963).Meet me in St. Louis, Guys and dolls, The king and I, West side story, Funny girl, etc.- Costume Designer
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Piero Tosi was born on 10 April 1927 in Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He was a costume designer and set decorator, known for The Leopard (1963), Death in Venice (1971) and La Traviata (1982). He died on 10 August 2019 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.Senso, Il gatopardo, Death in Venice, Ludwig, etc.- Costume Designer
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Alexandra Byrne was born in 1962. She is a costume designer, known for Emma. (2020), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Doctor Strange (2016). She has been married to Simon Shepherd since 1980. They have four children.Hamlet, Elizabeth, Finding Neverland, Mary queen of Scots, etc.- Costume Designer
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John Bright was born in March 1940 and trained as an actor at London's E15 drama school. Working as an actor on the stage he became interested in theatrical costumes and, in 1965, began to establish Cosprop, a company which would supply costumes for films, operas and the stage, as well as to private individuals - including Diana, Princess of Wales for her 1983 tour of Canada. Through the actress Peggy Ashcroft he was introduced to film costume designer Jenny Beavan, who had stepped in to design the clothes for the 1984 film 'The Bostonians' after Judy Moorcroft had left the production. Jenny asked for John to be her co-designer and they have since collaborated on twelve films, mainly for the Merchant-Ivory partnership, with John also designing for the opera. In the twenty-first century much of his energy has been in running Cosprop with other family members, having become its director in 1991.A room with a view, Maurice, Howards end, Sense and sensibility, etc.- Costume Designer
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Born to well known Punch Magazine illustrator Arthur G. Watts and Phyllis Watts (nee Gordon) in 1911, Margaret married Roger Furse and became involved in the world of the theater - specializing in costume design - beginning at the end of World War Two. Furse's connection to Sir Laurence Olivier undoubtedly opened many doors. Nominated for a number of Academy Awards she was awarded Best Costume for Anne of The Thousand Days. She and Furse eventually divorced and she remarried author Stephen Watts (though maintaining the Furse last name professionally) with whom she remained until her death in 1974.Oliver Twist, The lion in winter, Anne of the thousand days, Mary queen of Scots, etc.- Costume Designer
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Elizabeth Haffenden was born on 18 April 1906 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. She was a costume designer, known for Ben-Hur (1959), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Fiddler on the Roof (1971). She died on 29 May 1976 in London, England, UK.The man in grey, Ben-Hur, A man for all seasons, Fiddler on the roof, etc.- Costume Designer
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Travis Banton was the star costume designer at Paramount during the studio's heyday of glamour and sophistication in the 1930's. During his tenure (1924-38), he created imaginative, often daring designs for stars like Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Mae West and, most famously, Marlene Dietrich. His best work was done in tandem with the director Josef von Sternberg, cinematographer Lee Garmes and art director Hans Dreier. Collectively, they created a visual style of costume, make-up and scenery, which became known as 'Hollywood baroque'. For Banton, this emphasized the use of sumptuous, figure-hugging, often heavily embellished or reflective fabrics, as well as imparting a sense of kinetic energy through the prodigious use of trailing feathers or veils. He also coached stars like Dietrich on posture and demeanour to compliment 'the look'.
Banton's family had left Texas for New York when he was just two years old. After schooling, he briefly served aboard a submarine during World War I, subsequently resuming studies at Columbia University and the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts. Like his contemporaries Robert Kalloch and Howard Greer, Banton spent his apprenticeship in New York, working for the fashion house of Lucille until 1924, eventually setting up his own couture label. Heavily influenced by the French fashion industry, he initially designed for theatre, creating gowns for the Ziegfeld Follies and for Broadway musical comedy, such as "Little Miss Bluebeard" and "My Girl". In 1924, he was recruited by producer Walter Wanger to work under Howard Greer at Paramount. For several years, the future Oscar-winning designer Edith Head was assigned to him as a sketch artist and assistant, duly acknowledging him in later years as a crucial influence on her career. By 1927, Banton had become Paramount's leading, most innovative designer. During the next decade, his work set the benchmark for lavish elegance in continental haute couture, with credits like Shanghai Express (1932), Trouble in Paradise (1932) and Belle of the Nineties (1934).
A drinking problem forced Banton to leave Paramount in 1938, though he did not remain out of work for long. Joining Howard Greer's label, Greer Inc., he also found employment at United Artists (1938-39). After that, he free-lanced in between stints with 20th Century Fox (1939-41), Columbia (1943-44) and, as head stylist, at Universal (1945-48). His creative flair in this period is best exemplified by films like The Mark of Zorro (1940), Lillian Russell (1940), and, particularly, Cover Girl (1944), perfectly balancing contemporary design with 1890's period costume.
In the end, the pressure of consistently creating high-end fashion for both the studios and for his own label, plus frequent feuding with stars and executives and a longing to leave the West Coast and return to New York - were all beginning to take their toll. Banton's on-set behaviour became more erratic and his increasing alcoholism made him less reliable. After his final motion picture assignment, the hopelessly flawed biopic Valentino (1951), Banton left the film business altogether and went back to work for Greer Inc.. He returned to Hollywood once more in 1956, to open a fashion salon with Russian-born couturiere Marusia Toumanoff Sassi, collaborating with her in designing the extravagant gowns worn by Rosalind Russell in the Broadway play "Auntie Mame". Banton died two years later, in February 1958, at the age of 63.The last command, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Scarlet empress, Letter from an unknown woman, etc.- Costume Designer
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Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle was born on 17 February 1937 in Saigon, Vietnam. She is a costume designer, known for Swann in Love (1984), The Lover (1992) and Vatel (2000).Danton, Un dimanche a la campagne, Henry and June, Vatel, etc.- Costume Designer
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James Acheson was born on 13 March 1946 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. He is a costume designer and production designer, known for The Last Emperor (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1998).Brazil, The last emperor, Dangerous liaisons, Restoration, etc.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
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Patricia Norris was born on 22 March 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was a costume designer and production designer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), 2010 (1984) and Days of Heaven (1978). She was married to Richard Harry Norris. She died on 20 February 2015 in Westlake Village, California, USA.Days of heaven, The elephant man, Victor/Victoria, 12 years a slave, etc.- Costume Designer
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Albert Wolsky was born in Paris, France in 1930. He graduated from City College of New York and began to work in the travel industry. After several years of doing this, he decided at age 30, he wanted to pursue a career as a costume designer. His first entree was working as a "gofor" to legendary costume maker Helene Pons during her execution of the Adrian/Tony Duquette designs for the original Broadway production of "CAMELOT". His abilities were noticed by many of the designers working with Miss Pons and he began to work his way up to assisting some of the highest regarded designers in New York, including Theoni Aldridge. Within six years, he was designing Broadway productions under his own name and in 1968, he would have his first film credit, "HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER".
Bringing the knowlege he learned while working on Broadway, Mr. Wolsky would concentrate his career on the designing of feature films. Over the next three decades he would build a body of work impressive not only by size but by it's addressing every possible film genre with a consistant level of design quality. His easy manner and eye for detail would not only bring him repeat assignments from his colleaugues but earn him the reputation as both Paul Muzarsky's and the late Bob Fosse's costume designer. To date, he has been nominated for the Academy Award five times, winning it twice. He was also honored by The Costume Designer's Guild with their lifetime achievement award.Grease, All that jazz, Bugsy, Revolutionary road, etc.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
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Valles was born on 4 May 1886 in London, England, UK. He was a costume designer, known for Spartacus (1960), That Forsyte Woman (1949) and The Secret Files of Captain Video (1953). He was married to Ethel Johnson and Caroline Harris. He died on 12 April 1970 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.The picture of Dorian Grey, Madame Bovary, That Forsyte woman, Spartacus, etc.- Costume Designer
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Ann Roth was born on 30 October 1931 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a costume designer and actress, known for Barbie (2023), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) and The English Patient (1996).The day of the locust, The English patient, The hours, Ma Rainey's black bottom, etc.- Costume Designer
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Ngila Dickson was born in 1958 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is a costume designer and actress, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). She is married to Hamish Keith.The lord of the rings, The last samurai, The illusionist, etc.- Costume Designer
Georges Annenkov was an Academy Award-nominated Russian-French artist, active in Russia, France, Germany, and Italy, also known as Yuri Annenkov in the 'Silver Age' of Russian art.
He was born Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov on July 18, 1889, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka province, Russian Empire (now Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia), where his father, Pavel Annenkov, was serving his sentence in Siberian exile for his anti-Tsar activities. The Annenkovs belonged to Russian cultural elite, and were in the opposition to the Tsar's rule. Annenkov's grand uncle, also named Pavel Annenkov, was among the leading intellectuals of his time, he was the publisher of Alexander Pushkin. In 1892, Annenkov's father was forgiven by the Tsar, and young Annenkov with his parents returned to their ancestral home in St. Petersburg. There he attended the private gymnasium of Stolbtsov, then studied at the Law School of St. Petersburg University, but did not graduate. In 1909, Annenkov applied to the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, but was not accepted, because his anti-Tsar caricatures were published in Russian liberal magazines.
In the 1900s, Annenkov met the famous Russian artist Ilya Repin, who was a neighbor of the Annenkovs in the St. Petersburg suburb of Kuokkala. Repin's art made a strong impression on young Annenkov, albeit he became interested in a more experimental and avant-garde movements. In 1909-1911, in St. Petersburg, he studied at the Stieglitz School of Art, and attended the drawing class of Saveli Seidenberg, where his classmate was Marc Chagall. In 1911 - 1913 Annenkov lived in Paris and studied painting with Symbolist artists Maurice Denis and Felix Vallotton. In the summer of 1912 he lived on the Atlantic coast of France, in Bretagne, there he made a series of drawings of fish and plants for the Department of Zoology at Sorbonne University. In 1913, Annenkov participated with his two paintings in the show at 'Salon des Independents', then he traveled and worked in France and Switzerland. Over the course of his artistic development, Annenkov absorbed a range of influences, from Russian Folk-style Lubok and Cubism of Pablo Picasso to Nabism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, and other Avant-garde movements, and created his own style called New Synthetism. Annenkov
In 1914, when the First World War broke, he was back in St. Petersburg, Russia. There Annenkov worked for art magazines, and took part in several art shows. He made stage design for several stage productions at the Theatre of Komissarzkhevskoy, and also worked with the director Nicolas Evreinoff and his Theatre Krivoe Zerkalo (aka.. The Curved Mirror) in St. Petersburg. By 1917 Annenkov joined the Mir Iskusstva group of artists, where he met such leaders of Russian art as Alexandre Benois, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Yevgeni Lansere among others. During 1910s - 1920s, Annenkov was active as a book illustrator for such writers and poets as Alexander Blok, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Kuzmin, and Yevgeni Zamyatin among others. In 1918 Annenkov created his well known illustrations for "The Twelve" by Aleksandr Blok. After the Communist Revolution of 1917, Annenkov followed his democratic and liberal instincts and became associated with non-Bolshevik leaders, such as Lev Trotskiy, Maxim Gorky, and Anatoli Lunacharsky.
In 1918 - 1921, Annenkov made several large-scale, experimental and most avant-garde street decorations for mass shows and outdoor performances in St. Petersburg, Russia. On May 1, 1920, he staged an outdoor mystery show titled 'Liberated Labour Anthem' for the May Day Parade. That show started a tradition of grand-scale Soviet parades and street shows, for which Annenkov made the original designs, working with the group of such artists as Dobuzhinsky, Maslovsky, Kugel, and Shchuko. In the fall of 1920, Annenkov designed and directed a massive show 'Revolutionary Takeower of the Winter Palace' at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg. At that time, Annenkov invested his experimental ideas in such innovative stage productions as 'Gaz' by G.Keiser (1920) and 'The Mutiny of the Machines' by A. Tolstoy (1924) at Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in St. Petersburg. Annenkov's design for 'The Mutiny of the Machines' was involving several consecutive stage sets with large-scale moving mechanisms symbolizing the domination of industrial technology over human life.
Annenkov was among organizers of 'Segodnya' publishing house in St. Petersburg. In 1922, he published a book of his original portraits of eighty leading cultural and political figures of Russia of that time, such as Anna Akhmatova, Fedor Sologub, Yevgeni Zamyatin, Maxim Gorky, Boris Pasternak, and Lev Trotskiy, Vladimir Lenin, and Aleksandr Kerensky among many others. Annenkov's portraits show his mastery of blending several styles for better representation of complex, multi-faceted personalities of his famous sitters. In 1923 Annenkov collaborated with Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy on the popular children books series, of which "Moidodyr" with illustrations by Yuri Annenkov had over 30 re-printings, and became one of the best known Russian books for children.
In the summer of 1924, Annenkov emigrated from the Soviet Union together with his wife, actress and ballerina Elena (Helen) Galperi. He took part in the 1924 Venice art show, then worked in Berlin, Germany, and exhibited his art in several shows across Europe. Eventually he settled in Paris, France. He also made set designs for about 60 stage productions of operas, ballets, and dramas, in collaboration with such directors as George Balanchine, Léonide Massine, Bronislava Njinska, Michael Chekhov and Serge Lifar. He also made numerous portraits of such cultural figures as Maurice Ravel and Jean Cocteau, among others. In the 1930s Annenkov became involved in film productions. He first collaborated with such film directors as F.W. Murnau and Viktor Tourjansky. Georges Annenkov is best known for his costumes for The Earrings of Madame De... (1953), for which he earned an Academy Award-nomination for Best Costume Design, shared with Rosine Delamare. Annenkov's costumes and set designers had won him much critical acclaim, especially his costumes for Gérard Philipe in Montparnasse 19 (1958) and The Charterhouse of Parma (1948), among other films. Among his works for television was his lavish design for 'The Cherry Orchard', a 1959 WD production of the eponymous play by Anton Chekhov.
From 1945 - 1955 Annenkov was president of the French Syndicate of Cinema Technicians. Annenkov's witty and bitter-sweet memoirs were published in Russian and French and had success among intellectuals in Europe. His book 'Journal of my meetings' (1966) was translated in several languages, albeit the book was banned in the Soviet Union, until the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Georges Annenkov died of natural causes, aged 83, on July 12, 1974, in Paris, France, and was laid to rest in the Russian Cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, in Paris, France.
Georges (Yuri) Annenkov was married to Russian ballerina Elena (Helen) Annenkov (nee Galperi), who was also his Muse and inspirational model for numerous drawings, oil portraits, and design ideas for cinema. Annenkov's works are now in permanent collections of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and in private collections and galleries across the world.Faust, La ronde, Madame de..., Le plaisir, Lola Montes, etc.- Costume Designer
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Phyllis Dalton was born on 16 October 1925 in London, England, UK. She is a costume designer, known for Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Princess Bride (1987) and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). She is married to Dalton.Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Oliver!, Henry V, etc.- Special Effects
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Richard Taylor is known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), King Kong (2005) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).The lord of the rings, The hobbit, etc.- Costume Designer
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Emi Wada was born on 18 March 1937 in Kyoto, Japan. She was a costume designer and production designer, known for House of Flying Daggers (2004), Hero (2002) and Ran (1985). She was married to Ben Wada. She died on 13 November 2021 in Japan.Ran, Hero, House of the flying daggers, etc.- Costume Designer
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Marcel Escoffier was born on 29 November 1910 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He was a costume designer, known for Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1950) and The Swashbuckler (1971). He died on 9 January 2001 in Ariccia, Lazio, Italy.Beauty and the beast, Fanfan la tulipe, Sense, etc.- Costume Designer
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Three time Academy Award-winning costume designer Anthony Powell had an interesting range of films, from costume period films to more contemporary settings, working with an impressive list of directors such as Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, George Cukor and William Friedkin. Powell contributed with the fashion and style of iconic characters like Indiana Jones, Cruela de Vil and Hercule Poirot in several films, and also works that bring a touch of class whether being the refined looks of the characters in Frantic (1988) or the colorful and detailed extravagance of a fantasy like Hook (1991), transforming Dustin Hoffman into an authentic and menacing pirate.
Right with his second film credit, Travels with My Aunt (1972), he won his first Oscar, an award he would receive two other times for his works in Death on the Nile (1978) and Tess (1979), and three other nominations for Pirates (1986), Hook (1991) and 102 Dalmatians (2000). But audiences were more familiar with Powell's career with the successful Indiana Jones trilogy (1981, 1984 and 1989), where he explored styles representing the early 20th Century in fascinating compositions, and the iconic hat and whip of Jones.Death on the Nile, Tess, Hamlet, etc.- Producer
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Catherine Martin was born on 26 January 1965 in Lindfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is a producer and costume designer, known for Moulin Rouge! (2001), The Great Gatsby (2013) and Australia (2008). She has been married to Baz Luhrmann since 26 January 1997. They have two children.Strictly ballroom, Moulin Rouge, The great Gatsby, etc.- Costume Designer
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This Hollywood costume designer is best known for his creation of the strapless black gown worn by Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946). He also designed the gowns worn by Loretta Young during her swirling entrances in her "Loretta Young Show" on TV during the 50's and 60's. (Decades later, he and Miss Young would marry.)A thousanf and one nights, A star is born, Song without end, etc.- Costume Designer
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Mark Bridges was born in Niagara Falls, New York, USA. He is known for The Artist (2011), Phantom Thread (2017) and Inherent Vice (2014).Boogie nights, There will be blood, The artist, Phantom thread, etc.- Costume Designer
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Gwen Wakeling was born in Detroit. Her father was a mining engineer whose work resulted in the family moving every few years, and she wound up living everywhere from Seattle to Los Angeles to Prescott, Arizona. Upon graduating high school she got a job as a fashion artist in a department store. She soon was hired by director Cecil B. DeMille when he was working for Pathe Studios, and he took her with him when he moved over to Paramount Pictures. In 1933 she went to work for Fox Films as the studio's head costume designer. In 1941 she suffered the traumas of a death in her family and a serious illness because of a ruptured appendix, and quit Fox the next year and became a freelancer. She later married writer/director Henry J. Staudigl. She won an Oscar for costume design for Samson and Delilah (1949).The affairs of Cellini, How green was my valley!, Cover girl, Samson and Delilah, etc- Costume Designer
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Born in Sydney, Australia, she is a costume and production designer. She is a specialist in period costume from the 19th century. All four of her Oscar nominated films are of that era. A noted recluse who rarely does interviews or attends awards ceremony's, between jobs she returns to a quite home life with her family.The piano, Portrait of a lady, Bright star, etc.- Costume Designer
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Mary Zophres was born on 23 March 1964 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. She is a costume designer, known for La La Land (2016), Babylon (2022) and Hail, Caesar! (2016). She has been married to Murray Valeriano since 9 March 2006.The man who wasn't there, Hail Caesar!, La La Land, etc- Costume Designer
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Vittorio Nino Novarese was born on 15 May 1907 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a costume designer and writer, known for Cleopatra (1963), Spartacus (1960) and Blazing Saddles (1974). He died on 17 October 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Cleopatra, The agony and the ecstasy, Cromwell, etc.- Costume Designer
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Two-time Academy Award Nominee Ruth Myers was brought up in Manchester, England. She trained at St. Martin's School of Art in London, then went to work at the Royal Court Theatre on a student grant, followed by a year working in repertory. Ms. Myers next returned to the Royal Court, contributing to at least 15 productions which included John Osborne's "Hotel in Amsterdam" and "Time Present", and David Hare's "Stag".
Her first professional assignment was sewing sequins all night on costumes for the great designer Anthony Powell. During this period, Ms. Myers worked as assistant to the legendary Sophie Devine, who as 'Motley' had created the costumes for many of the early English classic films including director David Lean's "Great Expectations". With her encouragement, Ms. Myers started to design for the theatre and then for low-budget English films beginning in 1967 with "Smashing Time" (now famous for its era-defining Mod look), "A Touch of Class", Peter Medak's "The Ruling Class", and "The Twelve Chairs".
After being persuaded to come to America by Gene Wilder, she collaborated with him on "The World's Greatest Lover," "The Woman in Red" and "Haunted Honeymoon." She also then designed for Joseph Losey's "Galileo" and "The Romantic Englishwoman." It was on this film that she met her late husband, noted Production Designer, Richard MacDonald. As a couple they enjoyed a dynamic collaboration on films that include Sydney Pollack's "The Firm"; Fred Schepsi's "Plenty" and 'The Russia House"; Norman Jewison's "And Justice For All"; Ken Russell's "Altered States"; Jack Clayton's "Something Wicked This Way Comes"; and Barry Sonnenfeld's "The Addams Family," for which Ms. Myers received an Academy Award nomination.
Since 1993, she has designed more than 30 films including Curtis Hanson's "L.A. Confidential"; Douglas McGrath's "Emma," (for which she earned her second Academy Award nomination) "Nicholas Nickelby" and "Infamous"; Taylor Hackford's "Proof of Life,"; Mimi Leder's "Deep Impact"; John Curran's "The Painted Veil." Her most recent films are the forthcoming "City of Ember," directed by Gil Kenan; and "The Golden Compass," directed by Chris Weitz.
In 2003 Ms. Myers designed the costumes for the pilot episode of HBO's "Carnivale," creating the look for the continuing series and garnering an Emmy.The Adams family, Emma, L.A. Confidential, etc.- Costume Designer
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Gile Steele was born on 24 September 1908 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a costume designer, known for The Heiress (1949), The Merry Widow (1952) and Kind Lady (1951). He died on 16 January 1952 in Culver City, California, USA.Marie Antoinette, Waterloo Bridge, Teh emperor waltz, Teh heiress, etc.- Costume Designer
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Paco Delgado was born in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. He is known for Les Misérables (2012), The Danish Girl (2015) and The Skin I Live In (2011).Les miserables, Blancanieves, The Danish girl, etc.- Costume Designer
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Milo Anderson was born on 9 May 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a costume designer, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), To Have and Have Not (1944) and Mildred Pierce (1945). He died on 3 November 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Anthony Adverse, The life of Emile Zola, The adventures of Robin Hood, etc.- Costume Designer
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Anna B. Sheppard was born on 18 January 1946 in Zyrardów, Mazowieckie, Poland. She is a costume designer, known for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Schindler's List (1993).Schindler's list, Inglorious basterds, Malificent, etc.- Costume Designer
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Rosine Delamare was born on 11 June 1911 in Colombes, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France], France. She was a costume designer, known for Rififi (1955), The Day of the Jackal (1973) and The Earrings of Madame De... (1953). She died on 17 March 2013 in Paris, France.Madame de..., French cancan, Elena et les hommes, etc.- Costume Designer
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Gitt Magrini was born on 3 October 1914 in Zoagli, Liguria, Italy. She was a costume designer and actress, known for Last Tango in Paris (1972), La Notte (1961) and The Conformist (1970). She died on 10 July 1977 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.Peau d'anne, Deux anglais et le continent, Novecento, etc.- Costume Designer
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Maurizio Millenotti was born on 12 June 1946 in Reggiolo, Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is a costume designer, known for The Best Offer (2013), The Legend of 1900 (1998) and The Passion of the Christ (2004).E la nave va, Othello, Hamlet, etc.- Costume Designer
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Shirley Russell was born on 11 March 1935 in London, England, UK. She was a costume designer and actress, known for Hope and Glory (1987), Yanks (1979) and Reds (1981). She was married to Ken Russell. She died on 4 March 2002 in England, UK.Women in love, The music lovers, Hope and Glory, etc.- Costume Designer
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Ms. Carter won 2 Oscars for Costume Design for Black Panther and Wakanda Forever, making history as the first African-American in that category. She also made history being the first African-American woman to win multiple Oscars in any category. A 4-time Academy Award nominee also for Malcolm X and Amistad, she has 50 feature film credits including Do the Right Thing, The Butler, Selma, and Marshall and received the 2019 Costume Designers Guild Career Achievement Award.Malcolm X, Amistad, Black Panther, etc.