Fashion artist Gwen Wakeling was hired by Cecil B. DeMille while he was working for Pathe Studios. She first costumed 1927's ...

Constance Bennett gave a young fashion designer Milo Anderson a tip that had stayed with him throughout his three-decade career. "...

Marcel Vertes was among of the many who escaped the Nazi invasion of Europe. For Vertes, he was able to escape the invasion of Paris by ...

Born in Joplin, Missouri in 1903, Bernard Newman joined the wave of American fashion designers going to Paris. Newman also studied at t...

After graduating the University of Nebraska in 1916, Howard Greer was sketching for the House of Lucille in both the New York and Ch...

Travis Banton's reputation really skyrocketed after dressing Mary Pickford for her wedding to Douglas Fairbanks. At the time just a...

Charles Le Maire was born in Chicago April 22, 1897. As an actor and vaudevillian, Le Maire changed his career in 1921 as a costumer f...

Edward Stevenson was born in Pocatello, Idaho where he had stayed until leaving for California for chronic respiratory problems at the ...

By 1916, West was officially considered a studio designer at Triangle Pictures having dressed and designed every cast member and extra ...

Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was born in London on January 1904 to a merchant family. He was educated at Heath Mount School and St. Cyprian...

The eccentric and academic-looking designer started in New York creating gowns for royalty Broadway actresses and socialites including ...

For being a graduate in letters and sciences with honors in French, this isn't the usual beginnings for the legendary Oscar winning cost...

Like Dolly Tree, Irene started out as an actress in secondary silent films. But opening her own dress shop started a different career, be...