During the time in which the icon Hollywood sign was Hollywoodland Edith Head was brought on board at Parmount Pictures - then others to design the dresses, suits and period costumes for motion pictures. First she worked as a sketch artists - then became assistant, then chief designer and finally became the major Academy Award Winner of all times for her fashions - costume designs.
Now the Hollywoodland sign is now Hollywood, and the dresses and suits in which Edith Head styling designs - trends during the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s seemed to have made a come back. It is like they are appearing world wide, but with other names and lables.
So here are the questions.
One: Do you know anything of Edith Head?
Two: What pictures / movies do you know in which she designed the dresses - suits?
Three: Have you seen pictures of her designs?
Three - Part B: If you have answered in the positive in the first three can you see comparisons between her designs and what is now being created?
Four: Will this comparison, once they are made, have either negative or positive outcome for present designers in their creative motive to produce more original designs?
Five: How do you feel in your reflection and knowledge of Edith Head's contribution to the history of fashion designs.
Please note, in the meanime, I am putting together an article on Edith Head.
Why?
There were two centers of glamour during the 20s and 30s. They surrounded the film industry of Berlin, Germany and Hollywood ( or err Hollywoodland ), LA, California. France was trying but Chanel was selling her designs to Hollywood film industry as well. Then the Nazis came to power and Berlin lost its leading fashion designers, and some were murdered, and this made Hollywood the center of world wide Glamour. Also, and since Berlin finally was lowered to ashes as a result of WWII and the Nazis very few evidence of its former glamour survived.
Thus along side Chanel, the only creative challenger at the time, Edith Head had more opportunities to express her imagination and creative twists in designs it was her job to produce - especially when she had to likewise deal with all the producers, actors, actresses, and directors ego and imput. She help over a thousand movies. Now that is having a practicing advantage!
I thought this would be an interesting topic.
Roger M. Christian
Ithaca, New York
Now the Hollywoodland sign is now Hollywood, and the dresses and suits in which Edith Head styling designs - trends during the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s seemed to have made a come back. It is like they are appearing world wide, but with other names and lables.
So here are the questions.
One: Do you know anything of Edith Head?
Two: What pictures / movies do you know in which she designed the dresses - suits?
Three: Have you seen pictures of her designs?
Three - Part B: If you have answered in the positive in the first three can you see comparisons between her designs and what is now being created?
Four: Will this comparison, once they are made, have either negative or positive outcome for present designers in their creative motive to produce more original designs?
Five: How do you feel in your reflection and knowledge of Edith Head's contribution to the history of fashion designs.
Please note, in the meanime, I am putting together an article on Edith Head.
Why?
There were two centers of glamour during the 20s and 30s. They surrounded the film industry of Berlin, Germany and Hollywood ( or err Hollywoodland ), LA, California. France was trying but Chanel was selling her designs to Hollywood film industry as well. Then the Nazis came to power and Berlin lost its leading fashion designers, and some were murdered, and this made Hollywood the center of world wide Glamour. Also, and since Berlin finally was lowered to ashes as a result of WWII and the Nazis very few evidence of its former glamour survived.
Thus along side Chanel, the only creative challenger at the time, Edith Head had more opportunities to express her imagination and creative twists in designs it was her job to produce - especially when she had to likewise deal with all the producers, actors, actresses, and directors ego and imput. She help over a thousand movies. Now that is having a practicing advantage!
I thought this would be an interesting topic.
Roger M. Christian
Ithaca, New York
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