Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike Street Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
31 January – 26 April 2009
The Taft Museum of Art presents Fashion in Film. The sumptuous costumes span four centuries of clothing design and four decades of filmmaking, with the represented films, including Titanic, Evita, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Ever After.
This exhibition, organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., in cooperation with Cosprop, Ltd., London, England, features costumes worn by Cate Blanchett, Julie Christie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and many others.
Films set in the past require the creation of historically accurate, often lavish costumes. Such costumes play a critical role in the aesthetics and power of the character by suggesting not only the historical setting but also the personality, age, class and status of their wearers.
Over the last few decades, specialized costumers have created magnificent examples for leading filmmakers such as Franco Zeffirelli, Ang Lee and Robert Altman. Many of these original costumes are preserved in the collection of the London costume house, Cosprop, Ltd.
Evoking the Renaissance through the mid-20th century, the 36 costumes perfectly complement garments worn by sitters and other figures in paintings in the Taft’s permanent collection. Nancy Huth, the Taft’s curator of education, curates this exhibition.
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