From 20th October until 27th January 2013, the V and A are showing 'Hollywood Costume', with a hundred of the film world's most iconic movie costumes, from Dorothy's red shoes to items of clothing worn by Indiana Jones, Jack Sparrow and Darth Vadar, many of which have never been seen outside of the studios. The exhibition celebrates a hundred years of costume in films, from 1912 and the Silver Screen to 2012.
There are the pairings of directors and designers in the second gallery: firstly, Alfred Hitchcock and Edith Head, who said that 'unless there is a story reason for colour, we keep the colours muted', which made it all the more surprising when there were bright costumes such as Eva Marie Saint's orange jacket in the final chase scene of North by Northwest.
But Head and the other great old studio designers wanted to make the actors look like stars. Mike Nichols and Ann Roth are the next featured pairing, and Roth went for realism. During the 70s and 80s costumes didn't look like costumes.Roth said 'I don't dress movie stars. I dress actors who are playing characters.'
In the exhibition book, Meryl Streep, who has a degree in costume design, says that when it comes to costume 'everything is eloquent.....everything is story.'
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