The costume designer, the most instrumental crew member on a set of a film. Often, the unheralded costume designer can turn a good film into an award-winning film. They create a strong vision and extension of the story while visual-stimulating audiences. Showcasing my favorite cinematic costume designers is also revealing my favorite films and periods of fashion.
Albert Wolsky is the costume designer responsible for over 70 films that we can deem to be iconic American cinema. Working since 1968 on movies like Striptease, Grease, Charlie Wilson’s War, Road to Perdition and Revolutionary Road, 79 year old, French-born Wolsky is unsung hero and master at his craft.
Danny Glicker was widely celebrated after his success with Gus Van Sant’s bio-pic Milk. Having worked on films like Up in the Air, Towelhead, Thank You for Smoking and Transamerica, Glicker has a knack for lending reality to a thoughtful sense of wardrobe in freethinking films.
After seeing Une Vieille Maîtresse, I was officially entranced by costume dramas. Anais Romand is the woman behind the fantasy of many French films, like Affaire de Famille and Un Coer Simple. Check out the post I’ve wrote about The Last Mistress in July, here.
Although, it’s not atop my list of movie favorites, the costumes in Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day reminds me why there can be reverie found in film. Michael O’Connor has worked on a slew of films including Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Last King of Scotland, The Duchess and the upcoming Jane Eyre.
Oh Milena Canonero, a muse to design fantasy that I’ve obsessed over on my blog quite frequently. She is the mastermind behind cinema classics like the Godfather, A Clockwork Orange, Darjeeling Limited, The Shining, The Cotton Club, Marie Antoinette and Chariots of Fire.
Find out who’s behind the wardrobe of your favorite films on imdb.com, they have an awesome iPhone app, too.