Dec 04, 2014 the major sources for my research included edith head. Edith head is richly illustrated with more than 150 images, including family snapshots, sketches, and studio portraits of the stars and roles she helped to create. See more ideas about edith head, hollywood costume and costume design. Her career spanned nearly half a century and included such classic films as rear window and sunset boulevard.
Edith heads hollywood hardcover october 25, 1983 by edith head author. Inspired by the book edith heads hollywood, the play was by paddy calistro and susan claassen and starred and was directed by susan claassen. I suppose any book documenting edith heads 50 year career in hollywood is better than nothing, but this one doesnt even try to be in depth. Her private life and professional achievements have been the subject of speculation since she rose to the top in the late 1940s. A 2012 exhibit of edith heads work featured costumes, sketches, and even an appearance by edith herself, in the form of actress susan claassen.
She was responsible for some of the most famous hollywood fashion images of her day, with her costumes being worn by the most glamorous actresses in films seen by millions. With a fullcolor photo insert, this informative, thorough, and important biography is also engaging and entertaining, and will appeal to designers, scholars, and film buffs alike. I bought a used copy of this book, and i really enjoyed it. Top 23 quotes of edith head famous quotes and sayings. The major sources for my research included edith head. This coffee table book is part biography of edith, part fashion bio of the costumes she made for films, part gossip dropper of the lives on the people she. Rick tate lower left image public domain head did love the magic of movies, and reminded people during a 1978 dialogue in american film journal costuming wasnt just finding clothes for a.
Head s influence on world fashion was far reaching. Buy edith head s hollywood by head, edith, calistro, paddy isbn. Sep 7, 2012 explore kimclifford67s board amazing clothes by edith head. Studiobased production was giving way to outdoors and onscene shooting, and many of the actresses from that era whom she worked with and knew intimately had retired or were working less. From garbo to foster, was published by riverdale avenue books last year, and is probably also great. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
As the doyenne of the costume department of paramount pictures, and later designing for universal studios, shes credited with outfitting the stars of myriad motion pictures over the course of her fiftyyear professional career, and accrued a record eight academy awards for doing so. Ms head was known for her nononsense, assertive working style. Apparently, an updated edition of hollywood lesbians with 50% new material, hollywood lesbians. By this point, hollywood was rapidly changing from what it had been during heads heyday in the 1930s1940s. Among the key props used in the production were a size 2 dress purportedly made by edith head for grace kelly and illustrations of heads designs. Edith head is a legend in the hollywood film community. This book also dispells various rumors about edith and gets behind the truth to several false claims and accusations some by edith herself. Celebrating a quartercentury since its initial release, edith heads hollywood is reissued in trade paper, complete with an expanded photo section featuring the.
Some know it, some learn it, some never will like an instinct. Jun 03, 2018 a 2012 exhibit of edith heads work featured costumes, sketches, and even an appearance by edith herself, in the form of actress susan claassen. Over the course of her long career, she was nominated for 35 academy awards, annually from 1948 through to 1966, and won eight times receiving more oscars than any other woman. Edith heads hollywood by edith head 19831025 hardcover january 1, 1800 4. Edith heads hollywood is an exciting and insightful biographymemoir that shows the rise and fall of fashion in film. The fiftyyear career of hollywoods greatest costume designer is a beautifully done book. Edith heads hollywood goes where the dress doctor failed to by giving readers a more in depth look into the woman behind the enigmatic designer. Buy a cheap copy of edith heads hollywood book by edith head.
Edith head is widely considered the most important figure in the history of hollywood costume design. Well written and researched, and with plenty of photos it examines how she functioned and shaped future stars and the way the represented and managed their image. The life and times of hollywoods celebrated designer compiled by david chierichetti and edith heads hollywood compiled by paddy calistro, both containing first hand accounts as told by head about the process of working with hitchcock. Hitchcocks collaboration with edith head hitchcock. Edith heads most iconic looks edith head old hollywood. The life and times of hollywoods celebrated costume designer, is a fantastic look at one of those legendary hollywood names you may have heard before, but dont know too much about. Heads marriage to set designer wiard ihnen, on september 8, 1940, lasted until his death from prostate cancer in 1979. In honor of the late edith head s 116th birthday, we rounded up the iconic costume designers most legendary onscreen styles, from audrey hepburn in funny face to grace kelly in rear window. In the biography, calistro perfectly meshes excerpts from heads unfinished memoir with her own wellwritten research and gives the reader a deeper respect for costume designers. As the doyenne of the costume department of paramount pictures, and later designing for universal studios, she s credited with outfitting the stars of myriad motion pictures over the course of her fiftyyear professional career, and accrued a record eight academy awards for doing so.
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