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January 12, 2017, Filed Under: Film

From Bond girls to Brooks Brothers, how Janie Bryant designed costumes for Mad Men

Janie Bryant. Photograph by Elisabeth Caren.

Janie Bryant was the costume designer for the television series Mad Men.

December 8, 2015, Filed Under: Film

Another view of Scarlett O’Hara

Vivien Leigh wearing a gown dating from 1877 in Doris Langley Moore’s The Woman in Fashion (1949). Photograph by Felix Fonteyn.

Ten years after the release of Gone With the Wind, actress Vivien Leigh modeled real-life, historic nineteenth-century clothes for pioneer fashion historian and Byron scholar Doris Langley Moore for the publication The Woman in Fashion (1949).

October 28, 2013, Filed Under: Cataloging

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Jacket from Carson McCullers personal effects collection. Photo by Jenn Shapland.

Costumes and personal effects at the Ransom Center have the potential to create a unique portrait of an author or artist, and can aid in understanding the anatomy and mechanics of an actor’s performance. Graduate intern Jenn Shapland reflects on her experience of cataloging and examining objects in the Carson… read more 

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