Product Description
Dressing actors to suit character, place and period is more crucial to the film-making process than many realize. This guide provides insight into this craft, featuring interviews with 15 international costume designers. The book is brimming with sketches, fabric swatches, photographs, production shots and stills from the designers' own collections. They have come to the craft through many and varied backgrounds and draw their inspiration from wildy varying sources and here, they explain their techniques in their own words, revealing the personality and passion behind some of cinema's greatest costumes.
About the Author
Deborah Nadoolman Landis is one of America's foremost costume designers. President of the Hollywood Guild of Costume Designers, she has designed for many cinematic landmarks including Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London and Michael Jackson's Thriller.