Hollywood’s Most Iconic Costumes Are on View at LACMA for Two More Weeks — vogue.com

In the best films, costume is the result of a collaboration between the costume designer, the writer, the director, and the actor so that a character and their look blend together so effortlessly it seems as though the character is real: Live people with stories that live with you long after you’ve left the film. Bonnie from Bonnie and Clyde (costume designer: Theadora Van Runkle); Katniss Everdeen in her iconic leather jacket (Judianna Makovsky); Charlie Chaplin’s baggy trousers and bowler hat in The Tramp (he designed the costume himself); the many generations of The Addams Family (Ruth Myers); the blue creatures from Avatar (yes, they were designed, too, by Mayes C. Rubeo & Deborah Scott); Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly (Hubert de Givenchy, Edith Head, and Pauline Trigère); Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones (Deborah Nadoolman).

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