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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Insulting stereotype, or harmless holiday feast?

California | Local | By Seema Mehta | 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 | By Karen Wada | November 9, 2008
The doublets are smashing and the gowns ever so elegant. Read more
 

Sunday, July 20, 2008

His derring do-over

Entertainment | By Tom Russo | 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 | By Betty Hallock | 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 | By Elizabeth Snead | 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

Costume drama

Image | By Melissa Magsaysay and Ronit Nabi | October 28, 2007
AHighlander plaid corset at Jean Paul Gaultier. Read more
 

Thursday, October 25, 2007

What possessed you? Some costume tips

Entertainment | By Lea Lion | 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 | By Ellen Simon | 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 | By Diane Haithman | 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 | By Valli Herman | 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 | By Booth Moore | 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 | By Mary Mcnamara | 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 | By Roy Rivenburg | February 9, 2006
It’s not such a small world after all. Read more
 

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Dressed to the 99s

Entertainment | By Diane Haithman | 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 | By Christine Hanley and Roy Rivenburg | 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 | By David Wollock | 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 | By Valli Herman | 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 | By Tina Daunt | October 25, 2004
This is the year Frodo took down the Terminator and Paris Hilton partied with the peons. Read more
 
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