Costume News Archive - 31-Dec-2007
When Sarah Jessica Parker showed up at the 2006 costume Institute Ball at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art swathed in a tartan Alexander McQueen gown, her reputation for being able to pull off anything (including a tutu and heels) took a hit. It looked like the woman had forgotten her bagpipes.
In theater, part of suspending disbelief is to make things as, well, believable as possible. That takes the right actor in the right part, the right costume for the right play ? and as much as anything else, a set that goes beyond just creating a scene into establishing a particular mood.
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." Tim Burton makes fantasy movies. Stephen Sondheim writes musicals. It is hard to think of two more optimistic genres of popular art, or of two popular artists who have so systematically subverted that optimism.
A scene from Juan Antonio Bayona?s ?The Orphanage.? ?The Orphanage,? a diverting, overwrought ghost story from Spain, relies on basic and durable horror movie techniques.
In the movie ?The Devil Wears Prada,? Meryl Streep plays a demanding ice queen, a fashion magazine editor who never fails to be impressed with her own vast role in determining what American women wear.
The Washington National Opera presents the Rossini "L'Italiana in Algeri," conducted by Riccardo Frizza and directed by David Kneuss, with production set and costume design by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, in the Kennedy Center Opera House, May 14.
Bhutanese began voting on Monday to elect members to a new upper house of parliament for the first time, a step towards democracy after a century of absolute monarchy.
A diver wearing a Santa Claus costume draws the attention of some of the younger visitors at the Cretaquarium in Iraklion, Crete, yesterday, by helping them take a closer look at the marine life kept in the tanks.
Fairfax Artist-in-Residence Shoshana Parry is coordinating the town's second annual New Year's Eve costume Arts Ball and Party Extravaganza on Monday.
