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Fashion designers at the opera
Unlike ballet, which has a history of dipping into fashion, the opera has just begun to utilize talented designers for productions. In this sumptuous book, leading figures in the world of fashion are profiled vis-a-vis their entry into the operatic lists, with illustrations of their costume designs. Helena Matheopoulos's interviews with many of the designers illuminate the journey that led each to the opera and the challenges of working in a demanding new medium.
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Fashioning Spanish Cinema
Costume design is a crucial, but frequently overlooked, aspect of film that fosters an appreciation of the diverse ways in which film and fashion enrich each other. These influential industries offer representations of ideas, values, and beliefs that shape and construct cultural identities. In Fashioning Spanish Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyses the use of clothing and fashion as costumes within Spanish cinema, paying particular attention to the significance of those costumes in relation to the visual styles and the narratives of the films. The author examines the links between costume analysis and other fields and theoretical frameworks such as fashion studies, the history of dress, celebrity studies, and gender and feminist studies.
Fashioning Spanish Cinema looks at instances in which costumes are essential to shaping the public image of stars, such as Conchita Montenegro, Sara Montiel, Victoria Abril, and Penélope Cruz. Focusing on examples in which costumes have discursive autonomy, it explores how costumes engage with broader issues of identity and, relatedly, how costumes impact everyday practices and fashion trends beyond cinema. Drawing on case studies from multiple periods, films by contemporary directors and genres, and red-carpet events such as the Oscars and Goya Awards, Fashioning Spanish Cinema contributes a pivotal Spanish perspective to expanding interdisciplinary work on the intersections between film and fashion.
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Dance & fashion
\"Lavishly illustrated with both contemporary and historical images, the book features essays by ten fashion experts, who explore various aspects of the reciprocal relationship between dance and fashion, from the liberating effects of the tango to the influence of ballet on Japanese girl culture. Designers featured include Leon Bakst, Cristâobal Balenciaga, Comme des Garًcons, Christian Dior, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Halston, Barbara Karinka, Isaac Mizrahi, Rodarte, Yves Saint Laurent, Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, Valentino, and Iris Van Herpen\"--Publisher's website.
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Immersive teaching model for traditional Chinese opera costume design based on virtual reality: digital cultural heritage, inheritance, and innovation
Traditional Chinese opera costumes are vital carriers of intangible cultural heritage, embodying intricate craftsmanship, symbolic aesthetics, and cultural narratives. However, conventional pedagogy struggles to convey their complexity and cultural depth due to limitations in static, lecture-based teaching methods. This study proposes an immersive Virtual Reality (VR)-based teaching model that integrates high-fidelity 3D modeling, semantic annotation, and real-time rendering optimization—specifically Level of Detail (LOD) and Occlusion Culling (OC)—to enhance the design education and cultural transmission of traditional Chinese opera costumes. A controlled experiment involving 80 undergraduate students was conducted to compare the VR-based model with traditional teaching methods across five dimensions: learning effectiveness, user experience, cultural understanding, technological adaptability, and instructional interaction. Results demonstrated that the VR-based approach significantly improved educational outcomes, particularly in interactive engagement and practical performance, while maintaining high rendering efficiency and visual fidelity. This work contributes a technically optimized, pedagogically grounded framework for integrating immersive technology into cultural heritage education, offering a scalable solution for revitalizing intangible traditions in the digital era.
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Costume design and illustration
Spearheaded by Constantine Sekeris, author of \"MetamorFX,\" this book is an in-depth look at costume design and illustration. Showcasing an educational process breaking down the problematic areas of costume design for the film, video game and animation industries. From 10 top leading artists in the field, this title will have a wide range of aesthetic and design solutions. One will learn how to design and illustrate a costume from start to finish with educational tips and the process from sketches to finished Photoshop images to 3D ZBrush sculptures to fabrication.
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Designing Hollywood
Since the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood.
As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios
made a concerted effort to attract a female audience by
foregrounding fashion. Magazines featured actresses like Jean
Harlow and Joan Crawford bedecked in luxurious gowns, selling their
glamour as enthusiastically as the film itself. Whereas actors and
actresses previously wore their own clothing, major studios hired
costume designers and wardrobe staff to fabricate bespoke costumes
for their film stars. Designers from a variety of backgrounds,
including haute couture and art design, were offered long-term
contracts to work on multiple movies. Though their work typically
went uncredited, they were charged with creating an image for each
star that would help define an actor both on- and off-screen. The
practice of working long-term with a single studio disappeared when
the studio system began unraveling in the 1950s. By the 1970s,
studios had disbanded their wardrobe departments and auctioned off
their costumes and props. In Designing Hollywood: Studio
Wardrobe in the Golden Age , Christian Esquevin showcases the
designers who dressed Hollywood's stars from the late 1910s through
the 1960s and the unique symbiosis they developed with their
studios in creating iconic looks. Studio by studio, Esquevin
details the careers of designers like Vera West, who worked on
Universal productions such as Phantom of the Opera (1925),
Dracula (1931), and Bride of Frankenstein (1931);
William Travilla, the talent behind Marilyn Monroe's dresses in
Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1953) and The Seven Year
Itch (1955); and Walter Plunkett, the Oscar-winning designer
for film classics like Gone with the Wind (1939) and
An American in Paris (1951). Featuring black and white
photographs of leading ladies in their iconic looks as well as
captivating original color sketches, Designing Hollywood
takes the reader on a journey from drawing board to silver
screen.
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Fancy dresses described : a glossary of Victorian costumes
\"The Victorians adored fancy-dress parties: what better way to escape the rigidity of social conventions than to spend a festive evening disguised as Cleopatra, a Swiss milkmaid, or Alice in Wonderland? Well-to-do party-goers of the era consulted Fancy Dresses Described, an elaborate guide to hundreds of glorious costumes. The book was so popular that it was updated several times; this is the sixth and final edition, originally published in 1896. Time has transformed it into an important historical document as well as an abundant cosplay resource. Twenty color and 40 black-and-white illustrations enhance the alphabetical entries, which are mostly for women's costumes but include a section on children's dress.Costumes range from the peasant garb of Austria, Italy, and Ireland to the finery of the six wives of Henry VIII, Marie Antoinette, and other members of French and English royalty. Additional entries spotlight characters from Shakespeare and Dickens; traditional apparel of Egypt and ancient Greece and Rome; Cinderella, Maid Marian, and other folkloric figures; as well as outfits suggested by astronomy, the seasons, the animal kingdom, and other thematic subjects. Costume designers, reenactors, lovers of Victorian fashion, and Halloween enthusiasts will find this historic volume a tremendous source of inspiration\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Character Costume Figure Drawing: Step-by-Step Drawing Methods for Theatre Costume Designers
Character Costume Figure Drawing is an essential guide that will improve your drawing skills and costume renderings. Step-by-step visuals illustrate the how-tos of drawing body parts, costumes, accessories, faces, children, and different character archetypes, such as maternal, elderly, sassy, sexy, and evil. By focusing on the foundations of drawing bodies, including body proportion, bone structure, body masses, facial expressions, and appendages, this guide shows you how to develop sketches from stick figures to full-blown characters.
The third edition features a new chapter, Digital Mixed Media Costume Rendering. This chapter introduces the basic usages of Photoshop tools to enhance and improve costume designs, in order to provide easy delivery design ideas to the director and design team, provide easy changes and alterations during the design process, virtually apply actual fabric swatches over costume sketches, and help visualize lighting effects.
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The textile reader
\"The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing field of scholarly research. Revealing the full diversity of approaches to the study of textiles, the Reader introduces students to the theoretical frameworks essential to the exploration of the textile from both a critical and a creative perspective. Content is drawn from a wide range of genres - blogs, artists' statements and fiction, as well as critical writings - and organized in themed sections covering touch, memory, structure, politics, production and use. Each thematic section is separately introduced and concludes with a bibliography for further reading. The Textile Reader will be an invaluable resource for students of textile design, textile art, applied arts and crafts and material culture. Selected authors include Glenn Adamson, Anni Albers, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Sarat Maharaj, Rozsika Parker, Sadie Plant, Peter Stallybrass, Alice Walker and Catherine de Zegher\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Costume Design
Costume Design: The Basics provides an overview of the fundamental principles of theatrical costume design, from pre-production through opening night. Peppered with interviews with working costume designers, it provides an understanding of what it means to be a costume designer and offers a strong foundation for additional study.
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