Costume Design in the Movies: An Illustrated Guide to the Work of 157 Great Designers

by Elizabeth Leese

Book Overview

"An attractive and informed guide. It includes an extensively cross-referenced list of films on which leading couturiers worked, a superb collection of stills, and a brief history of costume on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048626548X
• ISBN13: 9780486265483
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Not entirely what I was expecting

Very little explanation visually of costumes. It's more about the designers themselves. Beautiful photos though.

Nice book describing famous Fashion (movie) Designers up to 1988

Good book! Lots of black-n-white photos of famous movie stars wearing wonderful designer fashions! This book was originally written in 1988,thus,the 157 famous Hollywood Fashion Designers listed in this book are all here --- from the very beginning of Hollywood's Fashion movie Era , and then all the way up to 1988. (NOTE: The reason the copyright on this book is 1991, is because the author added an information page in 1991. However, this book was really written in the 1980's). Anyhow, this book lists all the Academy Award Fashion winners and also all British Award Fashion winners (in regards to Hollywood FASHIONS), from the late 1800's up until 1988!

Costume Design in the Movies: An illistrated guide to the work of 157 great designers

I love fashion & many great designs were done by the designers for the old movie studios. It was interesting reading about how designers came up with ideas of an outfit to cover flaws or accent a movie star (i.e. Barbara Stanwycks low butt, Crawfords shoulder pads).

Fantastic Book For Classic Movie Lovers

One of my favorite things about watching classic films is seeing all the amazing fashions! This book is a great collection of photos of classic stars wearing classic costumes. Lots of stars are in here including Bette Davis, Norma Shearer, Carole Landis, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, and Irene Dunne. You will learn who designed each outfit and there is a little biographical information about the designers too.

Simply fabulous!

I am a costume designer and have had this book in my research collection for about 10 years. It is one of my top favorites. I have turned to this book for inspiration countless times. They just don't make clothing like this anymore! The hair and makeup styles are also well represented.

A Reference for Movie Glamour in Black and White

OK. So, you already know who designed the costumes for My Fair Lady. But, you find yourself watching AMC one day and they're playing "The Manchurian Candidate" and halfway through the movie you remember that you forgot to look at the costuming credits. Well, you open the index to this nifty little reference book and find out that Moss Mabry not only designed the costumes for this movie but quite a few more. That he co-designed with Marjorie Best for Giant to win an Academy Award nomination, and so on...There are some nifty pictures that accent this reference guide. So, in addition to the listings, you get photos of older and newer stars (I could swear that the photo of Norma Shearer from "The Waning Sex" is a Hurrell), and reproductions of designer illustrations.I think I'll keep this one close to the VCR.