With 5 Oscar wins against Edith Head's iconic 8, Irene or Sharaff or Irene Sharaff was born to create fashion. She was trained at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts as well as La Grande Chaumiere in Paris. She was an illustrator for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Under Alice Bernstein at the Civic Repertory Theater Company, Sharaff served a two-year apprenticeship as an assistant designer before her creations ever appeared on Broadway in 1932. Not only did she design clothes, but also contributed to scenery. Sharaff also contributed these gifts to Eva le Gallienne's 1932's "Alice in Wonderland," the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo, the American Ballet Theater and the New York City Ballet. Hollywood called for her and she would spend four years with MGM, under the Arthur Freed unit, from 1943 to 1945 then at RKO from 1946 to 1948. The rest of her years were freelance, creating iconic and Oscar winning fashion for "West Side Story" (1962) and "Cleopatra" (1964).
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| "An American in Paris" (1951) |
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| "The King and I" (1956) |
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| "Cleopatra" (1963) |
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| "West Side Story" (1961) |
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