Movie Costumes

Captain Cheesy (2011)
Costume designer: Anna B. Sheppard

Captain America is one of the cheesiest, corniest and most cliché movies I've seen in a long while. It was banally patriotic and it had no development, no suspense, one silly villain and characters you couldn't care less about. It was funny at times, but mostly unvoluntarily. Oh, this is getting abit out of hand. The negatives of this movie is not really the subject of this entry. It was one thing the movie did right: the costumes. It seems like Sheppard is fond of putting uniforms and red dresses on pretty women (she made the costumes for Inglorious Basterds), and doesn't it look grand? The second world war is really Sheppards forte, and she has made the costumes for movies and series like The Pianist, Band of Brothers and Schindlers List.



(pictures from imdb)

Inspiration #4

Horst P. Horst
He is one of the most long lasting fashion and portrait photographers in the industry, with a career spanning sixty years. He has been my favorite photographer for a while now. As you can see, I had a hard time choosing only some of my favorite pictures. Most of them are from horstphorst.com, while I can't remember where I found the rest.

Marlene Dietrich, 1942

Lisa with harp, 1939

Joan Crawford, 1938


Natasha Wilson, 1935

Mainbocher corset, 1939

Helen Bennett, 1939



Lisa Vogue, 1940



Ginger Rogers, 1936

Princess Natalie Paley, 1930s

Lisa Fonssagrives, 1939

Dovima 1960

Mrs Henry Middleton, 1949


Jack Holland and June Hart



Round the Clock 1, 1987

Mainbocker for Vogue, 1941

Edith Sitwell, 1948

Mainbocher dress, 1941

Lisa with money plant, 1939

Gene Tierney, 1940

Fur, pearls and diamonds, 1940

Eyes, hands and painting, 1936

Lisa Fonssagrives, 1951

Helen Bennett modeling in Seligmann Gallery, 1938

Gertrude Stein and Horst, 1946

Coco Chanel, Paris, 1937

Cartier's Diamants Mystérieux, 1934