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Ruth E. Carter is the first Black costume designer and second costume designer ever to have her name enshrined at Hollywood and Vine.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame just gained a historic new star. As of Thursday, movie-industry legend Ruth E. Carter is the first Black costume designer and second costume designer ever to have her name enshrined at Hollywood and Vine. The honor comes more than 60 years after prolific costumer Edith Head became the first in her field to receive a star. “As I have been reflecting, I think of all the people whom I’ve met along the way who have helped make this happen,” Carter said during Thursd...

Ruth E. Carter is set to make more history when she receives her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week.

JW Anderson and All the Best Looks from London Fashion Week London, baby. Feb 26 2021, 10:32 am EST Juergen Teller London is synonymous with youth, color, vibrancy, and innovation in the fashion realm. That energy continues even in the midst of a lockdown—and we have to give a nod to that creative resilience. Here, see the best looks coming out of London Fashion Week now. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Juergen Teller Sometimes a fashion show is more than a fashion show,...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Costume Designers Francine Jamison-Tanchuck and Charlese Antoinette Jones on Ruth E. Carters Oscar Win: She Opened a Lot of Doors for Us Jazz Tangcay, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail “She opened a lot of doors for us,” “Judas and the Black Messiah” costume designer Charlese Antoinette Jones says of Ruth E. Carter’s historic Oscar win in costume design for her work on “Black Panther.” “I’ve seen more people requesting Black designers thi...

UP & OUT Your guide to getting up off the couch and out the door in the Great River Region The Hawk Eye Monday Old Fort Players, 725 Avenue G, open auditions for "Leaving Iowa" are 6:30 p.m. Feb. 15 and 18, and 3 p.m. Feb. 21, with cold readings from the script. The cast calls for 1-2 each female and male (17-25) and 2-3 each male and female (over 30). There is also a need for several actors who can fill multiple small roles. Send a Facebook message, send an email to oldfortplayersfm@gmail.com ...

Based on: “Emma” by Jane Austen, 1815 Verdict: While it doesn’t match “Clueless” for sheer wit and invention, Catton’s delightfully arch adaptation gets a lot of fresh comic mileage out of well-worn material — and benefits, like all “Emma” adaptations, from Austen’s most ingeniously constructed story. — Justin Chang Haley Bennett, left, Glenn Close and Owen Asztalos in the movie “Hillbilly Elegy” on Netflix and the book by J.D. Vance. (Lacey Terrell / Netflix; HarperC...

March 2021 cover star Angelina Jolie wearing a Burberry polo neck, Max Mara cigarette pants and Chanel flats in an homage to Audrey Hepburn.  Craig McDean Funny Face also formalised Hepburn’s working relationship with the French couturier Hubert de Givenchy. The fashion-obsessed actor (she’s said to have splashed some of her Roman Holiday pay cheque on a Givenchy coat), first approached the bemused designer to create costumes for her role in Sabrina (1954), but too pressed for ti...

Viewers now appreciate knights in battle, daring heroic stunts, horse riding, swashbuckling and rapier word play with a pinch of sorcery tossed in highlighted by the hilarious knighting of Hubert, his fight against Sir Griswold of MacElwain (Robert Middleton) and an army of midgets in tights storming the castle. Kaye is in rare form with his singing, dancing and prat falling. His impressive supporting cast includes Angela Lansbury as a princess smitten with Hubert (oddly she is never asked to s...

Joan Crawford and Zachary Scott in Mildred Pierce. Kimberly Truhlers upcoming book includes anecdotes about iconic looks from Jean Louis black satin gown for Rita Hayworth in 1946s Gilda to Lana Turners look in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Whether one is a hard-core fan of film noir or, as author Kimberly Truhler puts it, "youre brand-spanking-new to the genre," its hard not to be entranced by the fashions of those movies, from the legendary looks to the little-known. Truhlers new book, Fil...