Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis, the founding director and chair of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, this month will be hosting high-fashion Friday night double features on Turner Classic Movies and talking about the important role of costume designers.
Landis will get the journey through costume design started on Friday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m., with a look at the work of Travis Banton, famous for dressing Marlene Dietrich in "Blonde Venus" and Claudette Colbert in "Cleopatra," and Orry-Kelly, whose many credits at Warner Bros. include "Casablanca" and "Auntie Mame."
Subsequent nights will feature Irene Sharaff, who created Barbra Streisand’s clothes for "Funny Girl" and Elizabeth Taylor’s for "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"; Anthea Sylbert, designer of such 1970s classics as "Chinatown" and "Carnal Knowledge"; Jean Louis, who clothed Doris Day in "Send Me No Flowers"; and Ann Roth, who designed for "Silkwood and "Klute."
Landis is also the curator of the "Hollywood Costume" exhibition, which began at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and will next be seen at the Phoenix Art Museum in March 2014. She is also the author of "Hollywood Costume," "Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration" and "Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design."
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