Hollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons
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AlbakiReads Editorial A century of screen style and the craft behind it
A century of screen style and the craft behind it
Organized chronologically, Hollywood Fashion traces the development of movie costuming alongside the rise of Hollywood itself. It charts the shift from performers supplying their own clothes to studio departments producing wardrobe for roles across historical, contemporary, and fantastical settings. The book also places costumes in conversation with changing social currents and the ways screen fashion informed wider dress. Recurring feature sections spotlight costume designers and their work, decade-specific trends, red-carpet style, and male stars’ use of clothing in character-building and atmosphere. With attention to both on-screen wardrobes and off-screen celebrity image, it presents costume design as a central part of cinema’s visual world.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Fashion-history readers interested in film’s influence on popular dress
- Movie enthusiasts curious about costume designers and studio-era wardrobe production
- Readers seeking a decade-by-decade survey of Hollywood style
Themes
Film costume designHollywood historyFashion trendsCelebrity styleScreen image and character
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Book Overview Hollywood Fashion explores the art and legacy of the cinematic costume designer, starting with the birth of the modern motion picture ind...
Hollywood Fashion explores the art and legacy of the cinematic costume designer, starting with the birth of the modern motion picture industry on a prime piece of California real estate known as Hollywood.
Readers will discover how film clothing evolved from actors selecting items from their home wardrobes to outfits customized for their roles -- everything from suits of armor to ball gowns to office attire to lingerie, all created by a studio designer and a dedicated staff of costumers.
They will also encounter the actresses from each decade who displayed a distinct fashion sense, on and off the screen -- women who made the costumer's job less demanding by embodying the character and evoking the time, place and circumstances the designer wished to portray.
"Feature spreads" throughout the chronological chapters include:
- Style makers: offering biographies of the legendary designers and showcasing their most outstanding creations
- Style trends: exploring the social movements and cultural phenomena that affected movie costumes and further influenced how America -- and the world -- dressed
- Album of trendsetters: highlighting red carpet fashions and introducing the fans' favorite Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads
- Men of the decade: showing how male actors used fashion -- contemporary, historical or futuristic -- to create a character or enhance ambience.
Hollywood Fashion will leave readers with a wider understanding of film costuming and an increased appreciation for the men and women who clothed the stars -- and made the spellbinding world of the American cinema memorable.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 240 | Language: English | Publisher: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD | ISBN: 022810503X
FormatHardcover
Pages240
LanguageEnglish
ISBN022810503X
EAN9780228105039
PublisherFIREFLY BOOKS LTD
Publication Date2024-04-09
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight2.7 Pounds
Length11.0 Inches
Width8.6 Inches
Height0.9 Inches
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