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Costumes
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Insulting stereotype, or harmless holiday feast?
California | Local |
November 25, 2008
For decades, Claremont kindergartners have celebrated Thanksgiving by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and sharing a feast. Read more
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Ruffles and flourishes
Entertainment |
November 9, 2008
The doublets are smashing and the gowns ever so elegant. Read more
Sunday, July 20, 2008
His derring do-over
Entertainment |
July 20, 2008
WHEN “THE Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan and Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming considered how they would retool Christian Bale’s Batman armor for the new movie, one question leaped to mind immediately: “Why, in 2008, would a superhero put on a rubber suit?” Read more
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Indulging an appetite for fantasy atmosphere
Food |
June 11, 2008
SHE’S wearing white knee socks and black high-heeled Mary Janes, a ruffled headband, and a short petticoat-lined dress with puff sleeves, rounded collar and a patch-pocket apron, and she’s here to pour your tea and serve cucumber finger sandwiches. Read more
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
WITH ALL HER MATERIALS
News |
November 7, 2007
TO design the costumes for “The Golden Compass,” Ruth Myers “used everything I’ve ever learned in the last 35 years,” says the Oscar-nominated costume designer (“Emma,” “L.A. Confidential”). Read more
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
What possessed you? Some costume tips
Entertainment |
October 25, 2007
FACE it, the best time to brainstorm Halloween costume ideas is in the middle of July. Read more
Friday, September 28, 2007
He gives Big Bird (and Travolta) their feathers
Entertainment |
September 28, 2007
NEW YORK – Drag queens, carnival kings, Big Bird and John
Travolta are all in a day’s work to Jon Coles, whose company has
outfitted all of them with feathers. Read more
Monday, July 9, 2007
THE NATION - Nation in Brief | NEW HAMPSHIRE - Bank robber goes out on a limb
National |
July 9, 2007
Leaf it to New Hampshire, where a bank was held up by a man disguised
as a tree. Read more
Sunday, October 8, 2006
Evolving with `Manon’
Entertainment |
October 8, 2006
IT’S the 1950s – but like no decade you’ve ever seen before. Read more
Thursday, July 27, 2006
TV costumes get a starring role
News |
July 27, 2006
LOOKING at a curtain rod jutting from the shoulders of the Miss
Starlett dress – a gown Bob Mackie created for a “Gone With the
Wind” spoof on “The Carol Burnett Show” – it’s hard not to laugh all
over again. Read more
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Like a disco ball, leotards come back around
Entertainment |
May 23, 2006
IT was the fashion climax to the whole sweat-slicked, muscle-thumping
show – Madonna on all fours, crawling cheetah-like down the stage in
lustrous Lycra, with those thundering thighs and that winged hair. Read more
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Like grown-ups
Entertainment |
February 22, 2006
“GOOD Night, and Good Luck,” like all of the films nominated for best
picture this year, purposefully raises a lot of issues – about the
politics of journalism, the reach of government into personal lives,
the role fear plays in public policy. Read more
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Reality Shapes Disney Garb
California | Local |
February 9, 2006
It’s not such a small world after all. Read more
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Dressed to the 99s
Entertainment |
November 29, 2005
A day with costume designer Ann Closs-Farley lends new meaning to the
phrase “holiday shopping.” Read more
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
No blackface at Royal Opera
Entertainment |
November 22, 2005
White opera singers will no longer wear black face paint when playing
black characters at the British Royal Opera House. Read more
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
‘Gunmen’ Hoax Brings Police to Laguna High
California | Local |
November 1, 2005
A Halloween prank sent police to Laguna Beach High School early
Monday in search of what two anonymous callers said were gunmen on campus. Read more
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Choice Is Key in Costume Selection
Magazine |
October 30, 2005
Spider-Man’s out, Batman’s back in. Read more
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Designed with a galaxy far, far away in mind
Entertainment |
September 21, 2005
Probably only Dorothy’s red shoes have endured as much obsession. Read more
Monday, October 25, 2004
Tonight, call me Paris
Entertainment |
October 25, 2004
This is the year Frodo took down the Terminator and Paris Hilton
partied with the peons. Read more
