Yvonne Littlewood

[…]t was strange because most of the, unlike the film industry all the makeup assistants were female and all the people who worked in wardrobe, the, the costume designers, the dressers, except they had male dressers, they were all woman.Mm.45Yvonne Littlewood DRAFT. Tape 2 Side AThe, the, the Head of, […]

Peter Suschitzky

[…]ot, it’s got to fit together so that it feels like it’s happening in a short space of time.PF: So, in past interviews we have heard that a lot of the costume designers, production designers, will often do research, particularly if it is a period film for example, and you have already mentioned that […]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]d your mother was very supportive and she was very supportive. She had uh shall we say a lot of potential artistic abilities and she used to make the costumes when I started making my fairy tales after the war and what do you remember what the first film you saw.SPEAKER: M3I don't remember I know my[…]

Waris Hussein

[…]schedule because the schedule was quite tight. However, Elizabeth then demanded that certain people service the show, one of whom was Edith Head, the costume designer in Hollywood. Well, as we all know, Edith Head was an eminence gris in the way of design for me and a total privilege. So Gareth and […]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]that aroused my interest and from then on really all I ever wanted to do was go on the stage and be adancer, singer, and used to put on either Joan’s costumes or my mother’s clothes and work out routines in front of the mirror and sing all these songs. I believe my parents were highly amused, t[…]

John Box

[…]e army after the war but went back to studying architecture; JB talks about his tank regiment; JB had always been interested in films so approached a costume designer his uncle knew, who then introduced him to designer John Brown; JB was then sent to Edward Carrick, supervising art director at Pinew[…]

Margaret Dale

[…]he would not be turning up. I was taught the little dance and they said don’t worry about the rest of the act, we’ll tell you what to do.I got into a costume, got made up and went on. I was told all the time, someone in the company would say “Come over here, dear-go over there, dear”. Harold Turner […]
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