Featuring stories from some of his most trusted couturiers and friends, a tribute to the internationally celebrated star known for his music and his flamboyant fashions displays his most dazzling and over-the-top costumes.
"Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing them from his or her civilian alter-ego. Instantly recognizable, the often garish garb includes insignias which are frequently appropriated and distorted throughout the world in a variety of media. This book provides …
This is a study of the role of disguise devices in early modern English drama that focuses on the theatrical or material performance of spectacle of disguise, which Hyland (early modern literature and drama, U. of Western Ontario, Canada) argues other scholars have tended to neg…
Nearly every iconic film in the last century had one thing in common: Edith Head. From her mysterious childhood to the controversial portfolio that landed her first job in a Hollywood costume department, Jorgenson provides a sleek and sophisticated portrait of the most influenti…
Nearly every iconic film in the last century had one thing in common: Edith Head. From her mysterious childhood to the controversial portfolio that landed her first job in a Hollywood costume department, Jorgenson provides a sleek and sophisticated portrait of the most influenti…
Bruzzi shows how, far from being mere accessories, clothes are key elements in the construction of cinematic identities. She uses case studies to reassess established ideas about costume and fashion, and to challenge conventional interpretations.
Bruzzi shows how, far from being mere accessories, clothes are key elements in the construction of cinematic identities. She uses case studies to reassess established ideas about costume and fashion, and to challenge conventional interpretations.
Designers' Shakespeare
Theatre Design involves everything seen on stage: not only scenery but costumes, wigs, makeup, properties, lighting, sound, even the shape and material of the stage itself. Designers Shakespeare presents and analyses the work of a half-dozen leading practitioners of this special…
Designers' Shakespeare
Theatre Design involves everything seen on stage: not only scenery but costumes, wigs, makeup, properties, lighting, sound, even the shape and material of the stage itself. Designers Shakespeare presents and analyses the work of a half-dozen leading practitioners of this special…
"Draping Period Costumes provides you with the skill set you need to break away from two-dimensional patterns to drape three dimensional costumes. The basics of draping are explained in precise detail, followed by step-by-step draping projects from multiple historical periods. M…
The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and starts to attract the men. Cinderella and Pygmalion stories still provide inspiration for the plots of Hollywood romanti…
By analysing various examples in classic and contemporary Hollywood films, this book illustrates how the costume is a crucial element in the transformation of the female image.
