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Donna
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Yes, Edith Head was a true legend in Hollywood and I can remember seeing her on the Oscars as a young child and noticing how the stars reacted to her. She was an amazing force in the business.
I ADORED the costumes in "A Good Woman" with Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johannson. It takes place on the Amalfi coast of Italy in 1930 - lots of minor British royalty and wealthy Americans renting villas. 
The dresses - day and evening - are just stunning! I would wear any one of them today - just CLASSICS! And beautiful, simple, face framing chapeaux. Too chic!
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Lady Amalthea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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Audrey Hepburn's costumes in Breakfast at Tiffany's and My Fair Lady! I also loved the old '40's clothes from LA Confidential. And the gowns in Shakespeare in Love. Simply magnificent. And Auntie Mame. ::Sigh::
I love period films, if only for the clothes!
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laurie_m
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| It's Edith Head, though Givenchy did Audrey Hepburn's clothes for many of her movies, including Funny Face. |
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Griffin
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:41 am Post subject: fashion & film... |
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| Quote: | | I love period films, if only for the clothes! |
My Lady A, so do I... sometimes, especially for the clothes!
Donna,
It's kind of ironic that the world was full of very rich people in the 1930s and their style was becoming more pared down and functional... yet somehow it still had style, as if they just couldn't help themselves. Even during the 1940s when the war raged and in Britain there was terrible deprivation, the clothes were still styled very carefully.
I have to admit that I love the films of the 1950s and 60s for the fashion. Tho' it's more for the women's wear which has more style I think than the menswear. You can look at the women's clothes and tell the period of the film.
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Cameron
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I like the Givenchy gown Audrey wore to the party in Sabrina.
Also:
Everything Reese Witherspoon wore in Vanity Fair.
Everything Helena Bonham Carter wore in The Wings of the Dove.
Everything Diane Keaton wore in Annie Hall.
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Raven
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| Sarape wrote: | | I was watching last night the movie "Roman Holiday" with Peck and Audrey Hepburn. The costume designer was a woman famous in Hollywood for over three decades named, Edith Hunt, or Edith Hsomething. |
She was Edith Head. A true genius. |
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madameshawshank
Joined: 30 Sep 2004
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Location: Penrith (where jacarandas remind me of change), New South Wales, Australia
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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yep yep yep to Annie Hall..
1967 Bonnie and Clyde I was becoming aware of fashion 'round that time...the different looks that were~ the time so many females were trying to look so Bonnie Parkerish...so Faye Dunawayish
I was wondering her age..
have a guess..'n then scroll down 
14 January 1941
this was fun eh!
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