1157
Handmade Edith Head
Designers - it is very important people. It helps designers find the Hollywood dream wings: they think through the image, dress, decoration, cloth, dress will look like an actress - such careful design and help celebrity look your best. Pretty funny to compare the sketches and the finished gown: a sketch - the idea, the place, the dress - its incarnation ...
Edith Head - the legendary Hollywood designer, costume designer, for many decades (the entire Golden Age of Hollywood) to dress the actors for the filming. Alone Oscars she was 8 pieces. She made 11 films with only one Hitchcock, and all directors together - and did not score. But it's not about her. And of her sketches. See what ideas she proposed for Grace Kelly:
elegant bourgeois dress, simple and exciting,
![]()
beach suit, both very comfortable and saucy (pants), and it is very elegant and feminine (skirt and hat),
![]()
summer dress that does Kelly simply irresistible,
![]()
luxurious glamorous dress is air, it is impossible not to fall in love.
The most important skill Edith was that to see the image of the actress and choose for her a costume that is best suited for the role. Remember Audrey Hepburn in the role of Princess Anne of "Roman Holiday"? Heavy role of royalty, heavy dress "on the floor" - wearing a gorgeous and chilling at the same time outfit Audrey did not have to do intense expression on his face.
![]()
![]()
Do you remember how to change Audrey in the movie "Sabrina"? This global transformation could not be better emphasized "little black dress", a true Parisian, so the going Audrey that she was after this film all my life will wear this style.
![]()
![]()
The character of Bette Davis character from the movie "All About Eve" also underlined her outfit: brown, almost black dress - as if the image of an aging actress who is not following the external luster, but still elegant and without it. Here it is, this dress.
![]()
![]()
In the movie "To Catch a Thief" Grace Kelly plays quite impossible Woman: bourgeois restrained outside and inside with a passionate easy and bestrashnym character. Its elegant, light dresses reminiscent of the gas itself Grace in her role: everything seems to be closed, and still shines, and everything is easy, and feminine and restrained ...
![]()
![]()
Hedy Lamar in film embodied the undisguised passion. These were her costumes. In the sketch we see a passionate and luxury woman - Hedi itself brings the image yet subtle nobility. There is a great actress and costume designer tandem.
![]()
![]()
Edith Head costumes made just gorgeous actresses and this helped her sketches. In them as in a magic mirror reflected the image of a great future:
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
But as it turned out in the end. In real life, of course, better than the sketch, but always remember that each of these dresses existed a thumbnail.
![]()
Audrey Hepburn
![]()
Barbara Swanwick
![]()
Ginger Rogers
![]()
Gloria Swanson
![]()
Gloria Swanson with partners in the film "Sunset Boulevard»
![]()
Ingrid Bergman
![]()
Joan Fontaine
![]()
Olivia de Haviland
![]()
Veronica Lake
Edith Head left a lot of sketches - so many that they could put the Red Square. Some are beautiful, others are more simple, but I have chosen the most interesting. You yourself can reminisce if you've seen somewhere in incarnations of these ideas and would like you to put on a dress:))
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
Edith Head - the legendary Hollywood designer, costume designer, for many decades (the entire Golden Age of Hollywood) to dress the actors for the filming. Alone Oscars she was 8 pieces. She made 11 films with only one Hitchcock, and all directors together - and did not score. But it's not about her. And of her sketches. See what ideas she proposed for Grace Kelly:
elegant bourgeois dress, simple and exciting,
beach suit, both very comfortable and saucy (pants), and it is very elegant and feminine (skirt and hat),
summer dress that does Kelly simply irresistible,
luxurious glamorous dress is air, it is impossible not to fall in love.
The most important skill Edith was that to see the image of the actress and choose for her a costume that is best suited for the role. Remember Audrey Hepburn in the role of Princess Anne of "Roman Holiday"? Heavy role of royalty, heavy dress "on the floor" - wearing a gorgeous and chilling at the same time outfit Audrey did not have to do intense expression on his face.
Do you remember how to change Audrey in the movie "Sabrina"? This global transformation could not be better emphasized "little black dress", a true Parisian, so the going Audrey that she was after this film all my life will wear this style.
The character of Bette Davis character from the movie "All About Eve" also underlined her outfit: brown, almost black dress - as if the image of an aging actress who is not following the external luster, but still elegant and without it. Here it is, this dress.
In the movie "To Catch a Thief" Grace Kelly plays quite impossible Woman: bourgeois restrained outside and inside with a passionate easy and bestrashnym character. Its elegant, light dresses reminiscent of the gas itself Grace in her role: everything seems to be closed, and still shines, and everything is easy, and feminine and restrained ...
Hedy Lamar in film embodied the undisguised passion. These were her costumes. In the sketch we see a passionate and luxury woman - Hedi itself brings the image yet subtle nobility. There is a great actress and costume designer tandem.
Edith Head costumes made just gorgeous actresses and this helped her sketches. In them as in a magic mirror reflected the image of a great future:
But as it turned out in the end. In real life, of course, better than the sketch, but always remember that each of these dresses existed a thumbnail.
Audrey Hepburn
Barbara Swanwick
Ginger Rogers
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson with partners in the film "Sunset Boulevard»
Ingrid Bergman
Joan Fontaine
Olivia de Haviland
Veronica Lake
Edith Head left a lot of sketches - so many that they could put the Red Square. Some are beautiful, others are more simple, but I have chosen the most interesting. You yourself can reminisce if you've seen somewhere in incarnations of these ideas and would like you to put on a dress:))
