Adrian: A Lifetime of Movie Glamour, Art and High Fashion
Best-Rated #1 Adrian Costumes Designer Book
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From ruby slippers to fashion runways, Adrian: A Lifetime of Movie Glamour, Art and High Fashion is a visual celebration of the life and work of the man behind some of the most memorable fashions of Hollywood's golden age.This book is a bright and vivacious look at the fashion, art and homes of one of the most celebrated fashion designers of the twentieth century. Adrian (1903-1959) designed costumes for over 150 Hollywood productions, including fabulous gowns worn by such iconic actresses as Gr... [Read More]
Gowns by Adrian : The MGM Years 1928-1941
Best-Rated #2 Adrian Costumes Designer Book
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From his earliest days working at the colossal movie studio MGM, at the young age of 24, Gilbert Adrian had a vision that would showcase a new era in costume design for the screen. So fresh were his ideas, so original were his designs, and so extraordinary the workmanship that Adrian quite rightly earned the elegant film credit sobriquet, "Gowns by Adrian." He was the first, if not the most publicized, of a Hollywood hybrid known as the costume designer/couturier.Gowns by Adrian: The MGM Years, ... [Read More]
Adrian: Silver Screen to Custom Label
Best-Rated #3 Adrian Costumes Designer Book
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This book highlights and showcases many of Adrian great costume and fashion designs from the 1920s through the 1950s. Not only are his timeless glamour gowns, period costumes, and amazing show-girl costumes shown from the movies, but also his impeccable suits and beautiful gowns from his private label. The ten years of Adrian Ltd. are summarized year-by-year, and his life with Janet Gaynor and his taste for decorating and art are described.
Great Costumes from Classic Movies Paper Dolls : 30 Fashions by Adrian, Edith Head, Walter Plunkett and Others
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This handsome collection pays tribute to 7 great Hollywood designers including Travis Banton, Jean Louis, Irene, and Orry-Kelly. 2 female figures -- with separate attachable heads for each star -- model exquisite gowns created for Leigh (Gone with the Wind), Turner (Ziegfeld Girl), Dietrich (Shanghai Express), others. 2 dolls and 30 full-color This handsome collection pays tribute to 7 great Hollywood designers including Travis Banton, Jean Louis, Irene, and Orry-Kelly. 2 female figures -- with separate attachable heads for each star -- model exquisite gowns created for Leigh (Gone with the Wind), Turner (Ziegfeld Girl), Dietrich (Shanghai Express), others. 2 dolls and 30 full-color
Great Fashion Designs of the Forties Paper Dolls : 32 Haute Couture Costumes by Hattie Carnegie, Adrian, Dior and Others
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Two dolls and 32 lavish outfits for evening and day wear include Schiaparelli's dark blue wool suit; an Adrian cocktail dress in crepe; a four-tiered wool dress by Germaine Monteil; and much Fashions from the 1940s rank among the most popular and most influential in modern times. In vogue again today, these classic designs - characterized by wide padded shoulders and slim silhouettes - were born, largely, from the need to conserve materials during World War II. With the war's end, designers rejected to austere conditions imposed on them earlier in the decade and the New Look was inaugurated - an ultra-feminine line that displayed close-fitting bodices and long full skirts.For this modestly priced paper-doll collection, noted illustrater and fashion authority Tom Tierney has painstakingly researched and meticulously recreated in full color
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