Fantasy and fetish formed on a foot, the shoe has never been more important. “Sex and the City†ushered in a renaissance of Manolos, Louboutins, and Jimmy Choos to Middle America…
The New York Times: He was honored for “Travels With My Aunt,” “Death on the Nile” and “Tess.” Also renowned for the outlandish outfits he created for Glenn Close as the evil Cruella de Vil.
A sea change is happening in Hollywood’s depiction of women. It may be slow, but it is steady and gaining momentum. For years, women both in front of and behind the camera have been marginalized, stereotyped, and underrepresented, but 2017 marked a turning point.
Forbes: When fashion and film collide as the respectively mammoth industries they are the financial potential is huge. Only, for decades, the brains behind such collaborations have rarely been celebrated.
Costume Designer Alexandra Byrne is well versed in the Elizabethan period with movies such as Elizabeth and Elizabeth Golden Age, for which she won an Academy Award, in her oeuvre. Her recent film, Mary Queen of Scots, furthered this exploration.
The difference between an editorial fashion stylist and a Costume Designer becomes starkly obvious when it comes to outfitting men who don’t fit into average-size clothes.
At the beginning of the television series Four Weddings and a Funeral, producer and longtime collaborator Mindy Kaling told Costume Designer Salvador Perez, “I want what you did for me on the Mindy Project, but for everyone in the cast.