Hollywood Costume
Witness the transformative powers of lycra, sequins and a heavy-handed approach to tulle in ACMI's new exhibition. It explores the pivotal role of costume design on the silver screen through the iconic ensembles that have stayed with us long after the credits have rolled.
Overview
Remember Holly Golightly's iconic black dress in Breakfast at Tiffany's or Christian Bale's hyper-futuristic get up in The Dark Knight Rises? Beyond even soundtrack, mise en scene and script, costumes are what stay with us long after the final credits have rolled, permeating our collective consciousness as they speak what the characters' words alone cannot. Hollywood Costume, which explores the pivotal role of costume design on the silver screen, finds a home for the winter at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, straight from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Get up close and personal with a century of costumes from the most well-loved characters of our time in movies like The Wizard of Oz and Casino Royale that green dress Scarlett O’Hara wore in Gone with the Wind even features. Aside from the opportunity to imagine yourself transformed into Dorothy with just the click of some red shoes, the exhibition shows the collaborative and creative process that goes into costume design and how it translates from a fleeting idea to being memorialised forever on the big screen. LBD optional.
Image: Breakfast at Tiffany's Courtesy Paramount.
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