LOS ANGELES: Dorothy’s famous ruby red slippers from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ have found their way home again as one of the highlights in a new Hollywood exhibition that showcases iconic costumes in film.
The Hollywood Costume exhibit, opening Thursday in Los Angeles and curate by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and London's Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), will house more than 150 costumes spanning decades of cinema.
It has been expanded from a 2012 V&A exhibit in London, and includes 40 new costumes, including those worn by Oscar-winner Jared Leto in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, Jennifer Lawrence in ‘The Hunger Games’ and Harrison Ford’s ‘Indiana Jones’. “This landmark exhibition reflects the Academy's mission of celebrating and preserving the past, honoring the present and shaping the future of world cinema,” said Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the President of the Academy, the film organization that hosts the annual Oscars ceremony.
“This is not an exhibition about clothes, this is about the movies,” said exhibition curator Deborah Nadoolman Landis. Landis said she hoped the exhibit would help people understand ‘what a costume designer contributes to every single production, as well as how a costume can help audiences become invested in a movie character’.
Highlights include a pair of the original ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in 1939's ‘The Wizard of Oz’, Marilyn Monroe's iconic white halter dress from 1955's ‘The Seven Year Itch’, Christopher Reeve's ‘Superman’ suit and Cate Blanchett's regal golden gown from her role as Queen Elizabeth I in ‘Elizabeth’.
The exhibit spans all genres of film, from Darth Vader in ‘Star Wars’ and Christian Bale's ‘Batman’ suit, to Kate Winslet's ‘Titanic’ dress, Amy Adams's cleavage-baring ‘American Hustle’ gown and Robert Pattinson's Edward Cullen suit in ‘Twilight’.
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