Asides - Costume Design

With a nod to NYC's Fashion Week - Feb 13-20, and the touting of the hottest fashion designer's fall 2009 wardrobes, I thought it would be fun to look at some of the costume designers of the twenties and thirties. Unlike fashion designers, who have a free hand in expressing their creativity within the bounds of showing a profit, costume designers must work through the dictates of script, period, and who will actually be wearing their designs.

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Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)

Costume Designers: Natacha Rambova (married to Valentino) and George Barbier

The costumes as worn by Lois Wilson and Rudolph Valentino

The Mystic (1925)

Costume Designer: Erté

The costume as worn by Aileen Pringle

Madam Satan (1930)

Costume Designer: Adrian

The costume as worn by Kay Johnson


Cleopatra (1934)

Costume Designer: Travis Banton

The costume as worn by Claudette Colbert

The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Costume Designer: Adrian
Costumes worn by the Ziegfeld Girls

The images are from Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design

Courtesy of Operator99.