{"id":4072,"date":"2013-11-26T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2013-11-26T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T15:19:02","slug":"holiday-book-tease-hollywood-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/26\/holiday-book-tease-hollywood-costume\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Book tease: “Hollywood Costume”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Already called out for being “Gift-Worthy” by the Huffington Post<\/em><\/a> and the Associated Press<\/a>, today’s review is just a teaser for Hollywood Costume<\/a><\/em> (Abrams) edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis.<\/p>\n

Hollywood Costume<\/a><\/em> is the lavishly illustrated coffee-table book and exhibition catalog from the Victoria & Albert exhibition of the same name. It frequently juxtaposes film stills with the physical costumes. The above costume was designed by Travis Banton for\u00a0 Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra<\/em>, 1934. The image below shows Colbert wearing the dress (and showing off much cleavage) For more on the costumes in this film, see my article at Worn Through<\/a> <\/em>from 2010.
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Another spectacular costume featured in Hollywood Costume<\/a> (<\/em>along with installation shots and an essay by Sam Gatley on dressing the mannequin) is this costume for Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) in My Man Godfrey<\/em>, 1936 by Travis Banton (Page 214-5, Gown and duster jacket designed by Travis Banton. The Collection of Motion Picture Costume Design Larry McQueen. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My Man Godfrey<\/em> happens to be one of my favorite movies (hello, William Powell!). The image of this dress is gorgeous in this two-page spread, but seeing all those glass bugle beads in motion in the film is just absolutely stunning. The scene below features the dress, but is also a fairly important point of the plot: (pardon the ad at the beginning of the clip):<\/p>\n

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For more wonderful insights, be sure to check out the book, Hollywood Costume<\/a><\/em> (Abrams) edited by Deborah Nadoolman Landis.<\/p>\n

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*Page 137\u00a0 The Collection of Motion Picture Costume Design Larry McQueen. Credit: Victoria and Albert Museum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Man Godfrey happens to be one of my favorite movies (hello, William Powell!). The image of this dress is gorgeous in this two-page spread, but seeing all those glass bugle beads in motion in the film is just absolutely stunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,94,7,91,1],"tags":[18,187,189,188,185,34,52,190,186,184],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}