Hollywood Costumes Designer Adrian

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]

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]

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.

Hollywood Dinner Party, Circa 1933.She was uniquely and undeniably beautiful, radiating a style unlike anything 1930s movie audiences had ever seen.  In "Dinner at Eight," one of the great screen comedies of manners, Jean Harlow took Hollywood by storm. She is at her most beautiful, mixing girlish innocence with brash sexiness.  She was put in the artistic hands of costume designer Adrian, and it was a match made in heaven.  Harlow wore shimmering satin like no one else, to stun, to wow, to d... [Read More]