In downtown Los Angeles, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising exhibits costume designs from many well-known movies each year. For the 24th Annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design Shawn “Obi-Shawn” Crosby, and his wife Colleen “Kaylee” Crosby, bring us this report.
My husband and I recently had the opportunity to FIDM Galleries’ popular spring exhibit. We’ve been going to this exhibit annually since 1999, and this year was among my favorites.
The long gallery is divided into historical costumes along one wall and the middle of the room with more modern and fantasy costumes along the other side. Mad Max: Fury Road, with Furiosa’s mechanical prosthetic arm, was the most fantastical offering on a side that was populated with more mundane examples from Jem and the Holograms, Pitch Perfect 2, and Straight Outta Compton. Time period films included Suffragette, Brooklyn, and Bridge of Spies. This is by no means a complete list of the movies represented… 23 films in all are here for the viewing, including last year’s Oscar winner for costuming, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
When you’ve completed the “Oscars” exhibit, don’t miss the small historical gallery showing “A Graceful Gift: Fans from the Mona Lee Nasseth Collection”. Even if you don’t think you’ll appreciate the fans, they have several historical gowns, including an 1897 afternoon gown that makes me seriously think about taking up FIDM on their offer to the non-profit Costumer’s Guild West (of which I’ve long been a member) to study any of the gowns in their own collection – by appointment, of course.
All Films on Display:
Beasts of No Nation
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Carol
Cinderella
Crimson Peak
The Danish Girl*
Far from the Madding Crowd
The Grand Budapest Hotel**
The Hateful Eight
Jem and the Holograms
Kingsman: The Secret Service
The Longest Ride
Macbeth
Mad Max: Fury Road*
Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation
Pitch Perfect 2
The Revenant*
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Straight Outta Compton
Suffragette
Trumbo
Victor Frankenstein
*Nominee, 2015
**Winner, 2014
The exhibit is free, and runs from February 9 until April 30, 2016, Tuesday-Saturday (closed Mondays), 10am-5pm. Paid parking is often available under the building, and there is metered street parking. If you are heading there, don’t miss the Scholarship Store for great bargains on fabrics and ready-made clothing. Contrary to popular belief, there are many great places to eat downtown, including the fabulous Bottega Louis nearby or Panini Café, just across the street, and the garment district is a few block’s walk to the east.
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