Cut! Costume and the Cinema explores the intersection of fashion and film with forty-three extraordinary costumes worn by luminous film stars: Sandra Bullock, Johnnie Depp, Robert Downey Jr.,
Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman,Heath Ledger, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie
Smith,  Kate Winslet, Renée Zellweger and others. Visitors to the Museum
will be transported from Elizabethan England (Angelica Huston, Ever
After
) to 17th-century Virginia (Colin Farrell, The New World)
to the 18th-century England of the aristocracy (Keira Knightley and
Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess) to opulent 19th-century Paris,
(Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera) to the
story of Peter Pan (Kate Winslet, Finding Neverland), and the
newly released adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr. and
Jude Law, Sherlock Holmes) into the 20th century – to colonial
Shanghai (Natasha Richardson, The White Countess) and Virginia
Woolf's England (Vanessa Redgrave, Mrs. Dalloway) to the
forests of Belarus in World War II (Daniel Craig, Defiance).

Cut! Costume and the Cinema reveals the integral role of fashion design in creating unforgettable screen characters. Costumes set the scene, providing
information
about where and when the drama is taking place, and introducing
characters by
giving clues about their status, age, class and wealth as well as their
position in the story. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Venetian
upper
class 18th-century silk brocade coat of Heath Ledger (Casanova)
versus the distressed leather jacket worn by Daniel Craig (Defiance)
while hiding from the
Nazis in World War II. Costumes created for period films must not only
stand
the test of time, but also the test of scrutiny. When a camera zooms in
for a close-up every hand-created detail must look authentic and
perfectly executed.
This exhibition allows us to get closer to the stories portrayed on
screen and
to appreciate the quality of the costumes up close, sometimes only
fleetingly
glanced on the screen.

Cut! Costume and the Cinema is presented by Exhibits Development Group  in cooperation with Cosprop Ltd., London, England.

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