Author Caroline Young has just released a fascinating new book entitled Hitchcock’s Heroines (published by Insight Editions). It celebrates and studies the women in Hitchcock movies; their influence, semblance and iconography. What’s more, Young also examines the role costume design plays with these women, both the characters and the actresses who played them, and how they can be interpreted as far more than just ‘icy blondes’. Here we have an extract of the book exclusively for Clothes on Film:
Kim Novak’s grey suit the colour of San Francisco fog in Vertigo, Grace Kelly as the too-perfect woman in Rear Window, and Janet Leigh’s black and white sets of underwear to indicate both good and evil in Psycho – these are just some of the classic imagery of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, where the style and elegance of his leading lady was carefully planned.
Hitchcock was meticulous about the visuals,...
Kim Novak’s grey suit the colour of San Francisco fog in Vertigo, Grace Kelly as the too-perfect woman in Rear Window, and Janet Leigh’s black and white sets of underwear to indicate both good and evil in Psycho – these are just some of the classic imagery of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, where the style and elegance of his leading lady was carefully planned.
Hitchcock was meticulous about the visuals,...
- 6/6/2018
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Rita Riggs, the costume designer and wardrobe specialist who worked on Psycho and The Birds for Alfred Hitchcock and on TV's All in the Family and The Jeffersons for Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin, has died. She was 86.
Riggs died Monday in Los Angeles, a family spokesperson said.
In 2003, Riggs received the Career Achievement Award in Television from the Costume Designers Guild, and last year, the guild's legacy committee honored her with another lifetime award.
Riggs' estimable resumé for the big screen also included work for directors John Frankenheimer...
Riggs died Monday in Los Angeles, a family spokesperson said.
In 2003, Riggs received the Career Achievement Award in Television from the Costume Designers Guild, and last year, the guild's legacy committee honored her with another lifetime award.
Riggs' estimable resumé for the big screen also included work for directors John Frankenheimer...
- 6/8/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Costume designer Rita Riggs, who sewed stuffed crows onto Tippi Hedren’s iconic green dress for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and made sure that Archie Bunker’s single pair of trousers stayed mended through a seven-year stretch of All in the Family, died Monday in Los Angeles. She was 86. “He had seven white shirts,” Riggs once said about Carroll O’Connor’s All In The Family wardrobe, explaining that the choice of white- over blue-collar reflected Archie’s belief that he…...
- 6/7/2017
- Deadline
Costume designer Rita Riggs, who sewed stuffed crows onto Tippi Hedren’s iconic green dress for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and made sure that Archie Bunker’s single pair of trousers stayed mended through a seven-year stretch of All in the Family, died Monday in Los Angeles. She was 86. “He had seven white shirts,” Riggs once said about Carroll O’Connor’s All In the Family wardrobe, explaining that the choice of white- over blue-collar reflected Archie’s belief that he…...
- 6/7/2017
- Deadline TV
As you might know, there are two upcoming movies that take a peek behind the scenes of famous Alfred Hitchcock flicks. One is called Hitchcock and one is called The Girl. And having seen the trailer for The Girl, I can safely that of the two, it's probably the film most likely to make you feel the need for a shower after watching it.
Premiering October 20 on HBO, The Girl looks at the filming of The Birds, Hitchcock's 1963 "nature run amok" flick — specifically, his obsession with Tippi Hedren, the film's lead actress.
Where Hitch looks to be a rather classy affair, with its big-name stars (Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson) and big-screen destination, The Girl (starring Toby Jones as Hitchcock, Imelda Staunton as Hitch's wife Alma and Sienna Miller as Hedren) seems to be reveling in the tawdry and salacious.
Hedren has made no secret of Hitchcock's cruel treatment of her,...
Premiering October 20 on HBO, The Girl looks at the filming of The Birds, Hitchcock's 1963 "nature run amok" flick — specifically, his obsession with Tippi Hedren, the film's lead actress.
Where Hitch looks to be a rather classy affair, with its big-name stars (Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson) and big-screen destination, The Girl (starring Toby Jones as Hitchcock, Imelda Staunton as Hitch's wife Alma and Sienna Miller as Hedren) seems to be reveling in the tawdry and salacious.
Hedren has made no secret of Hitchcock's cruel treatment of her,...
- 9/11/2012
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
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