COSTUME DESIGN IN THE MOVIES: An Illustrated Guide to the Work of 157 Great Designers

Elizabeth Leese

Dover Publications, Inc., New York, USA

Year 1991

Pages 391

This fascinating, comprehensive reference work provides biographical/career data for major American, British, and French designers since 1909. In writing this book, the author had two basic aims – one was to publish a record of the couturiers’ contribution to the cinema, for only through these occasional film assignments might their work be recorded for the future. The other aim was to document the achievements of the costume designers in the cinema, achievements that are rarely acknowledged and never published.