Century of Hollywood Costume Design

The title states Dressed: A Century of Costume Design. You can believe this expansive book covers the entire history of film as you glance through page after page, picture after drawing of famous actors in the clothes that made them famous. Starting with silent stars like Mary Pickford and covering each decade in cinema to the present this book by Deborah Nadoolman Landis spotlights the various and in most cases anonymous costume designers responsible for looks that subsequently changed their era's fashion.
Published by Collins Design the book has copious references and notes, an introduction by Anjelica Huston and runs over 560 pages. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will host as Landis presents a lecture based on her book, followed by a reception tonight starting at 6:30 at the Brown Auditorium Theater.
Landis herself has amazing credits including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Coming to America, Animal House and The Blues Brothers. Landis is married to director John Landis. She will also introduce a screening of Coming to America on Friday at 7 pm. Coming to America gave Landis the chance to design clothes that epitomized late 80s fashions along with creating African royal regalia, plus it features Eddie Murphey in his prime. Landis's costume design was nominated for an Academy Award for this film.
Landis crowned John Belushi with his laurel wreath in Animal House and designed the fedora for Indiana Jones. Her examples of influential clothing bring home the fact of how we all strive to copy in some small way the look of our celluloid fantasies.