Costume collection

I gave you an extra few days for Rate the Dress, because last week’s was so late. And I’m still feeling very rushed and busy, so have picked a Rate the Dress that’s all about relaxing, albeit in the poshest way possible. Last Week: an 1860s fancy dress Last week’s Rate the dress was fancy in a different way to this weeks: fancy dress, rather than fancy, fancy. But what we could see of the trim and construction was also quite fancy: indicating a very well made, high quality item, for a client…

Katherine Helmond, "Overboard," 20th Century Fox, 1987, Designed by Wayne Finkleman, The Collection of Motion Picture Costume Design: Larry McQueen

Colorful costumes

Greek traditional dress in Benaki museum in Athens

Golf jacket and skirt of wool tweed, with belt, cap and golf club, designed by Frederick Bosworth, London, ca. 1908

The 80 pieces on display represent part of a promised gift to the museum of 165 garments or accessories from Schreier’s legendary collection.

Costume designed by Edith Head for Natalie Wood in The Great Race (1965)

The RMS Titanic had my heart long before James Cameron’s Titanic hit theatres late in 1997. I can remember studying buoyancy in the second grade science class. We were all given lumps of plasticine and instructed to create something that … Continue reading →

Shakespeare in Love (1998) - Colin Firth & Gwyneth Paltrow

"Petal" Charles James (American, born Great Britain, 1906–1978)

Brad Pitt, "Interview With The Vampire," Warner Brothers, 1994, Designed by Sandy Powell, The Collection of Motion Picture Costume Design: Larry McQueen

Charles James produced some of the most memorable garments ever made. He began his design career in the 1930s. It peaked between the late 1940s and mid- 1950s, when his scarce and highly original gowns were sought after by society's most prominent women

The most beautiful dresses from the period from 1971 to 1914.

Madame Alix Grès (French, 1903–1993)