The Complicated Legacy of America's First Celebrity Fashion Designer in Halston

Gold, glimmer, greed

"...first approached about making a documentary about American fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick (better known by his middle name),..."

April 12, 2019 Screens Feature by Beth Sullivan

How Costume Designer Edith Head Changed the Look of Hollywood

AFS Cinema spotlights films featuring the Oscar-winner's designs

"...and shadow of one of the great Hollywood costume designers, Travis Banton. When she was hired at Paramount, she..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Column by Jill Morena

Austin Designer Spotlighted In UK Fashion App’s Texas Campaign

Shop Troy Gomez’s otherworldly aesthetic on Depop

"...– filled to the brim with thrifted gems and designer hot-picks, Depop is a place for the entrepreneurial Gen-Z..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Let's Go Hide in the Delightful Designer Forts of Fortlandia

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center brings back its fancy forts right when we need them

"...there since these are conceived and constructed by working designers who bring their professional creativity and skill to the..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Designer and Fashion Columnist Stephen MacMillan Moser Passes Away at 61

Your Style Avatar loses battle with cancer

"...Designer, longtime Austin Chronicle fashion columnist, and man about town..."

Aug. 27, 2019 Arts Post by James Renovitch

Local Designer Looks to Perfect the Modern Storage Container

Rebecca Finell’s Zip Top Kickstarter raises over $1 million

"...and it was priced right. I am living the designer dream because I’m just having fun making things that..."

Nov. 1, 2018 Food Post by Melanie Laporte

Top 10 Designer Contributions of 2012

Celebrating the year's most exquisite – and often surprising – stage designs

"...1) THE SEVEN DESIGNERS AND NINE ASSISTANTS FOR 'NOW NOW OH NOW' (Rude..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

You Don't Have to 'Do It Yourself'

When DIY doesn't cut it, hire an expert

"...The very title of "interior designer" can be off-putting; "interior decorator" is worse, conjuring up..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Saint Laurent

The celebrated fashion designer is tracked from 1967 to his death in 2008 in this live-action biopic

"...portraits in two years of the iconic French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent announces itself as something different in..."

May 22, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Total Package

The Decoder Ring's Christian Helms provides everything you could want in a design – or a designer

"...at you with everything firing. In fact, the energetic designer is a refreshing surprise. Far from the – imagined..."

June 13, 2008 Arts Feature by Sergio Burns

McQueen

The triumphs and tragedies of the late bad boy of British fashion

"...This documentary about the late British clothing designer Alexander McQueen puts the viewer in the right headspace..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

eXistenZ

An elaborate cat-and-mouse game between human reality and game reality from David Cronenberg.

"...world. In eXistenZ, Leigh is cast as top game designer Allegra Geller, a real-life goddess to her devout fans,..."

May 14, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Fashion Week Recommended: Friday, April 25

Eat your Wheaties, grab your wallet, and let us plan your day

"...Start the day at designer Jamie Pope's Liz James Designs showroom and get a..."

April 24, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

A Single Man

Tom Ford ditched fashion designing for filmmaking with this smart adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood story about a grieving gay man in 1962 California.

"...exquisite and haunting feature debut from the Austin-born fashion designer/icon Tom Ford. It's a melancholy meditation on love and..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Factory Girl

Sienna Miller nails Edie Sedgwick's gamine naivete in this biopic, but the film feels far too pat for its own good.

"...damned, the Chelsea Hotel. Cinematographer Michael Grady and production designer Jeremy Reed get Sedgwick-era New York down pat (props..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

102 Dalmatians

"...other secondary characters make little impression, save for fur designer Jean Pierre Le Pelt, played by an outsized Gerard..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unzipped

Fashion photographer Douglas Keeve turns his camera on designer Isaac Mizrahi for an intriguing and often funny look into the making of a seasonal fashion collection.

"...Keeve. Fashion photographer Douglas Keeve turns his camera on designer Isaac Mizrahi for an intriguing and often funny look..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Halston

Documentary about the life of the master couturier and milliner should have learned his lessons about simplicity and elegance

"...from that minimalist and flawless execution of a master designer...."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Dior and I

This sharp doc is as close as most of us will ever get to fingering the Dior merchandise

"...Frédéric Tcheng appliqués an ethereal narration drawn from founding designer Christian Dior’s own autobiography, Dior by Dior. (Tcheng employed..."

May 1, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Making the Cut

New season of Project Runway puts Austin designer Lindsey Creel in the spotlight

"...a shot with some local talent on deck, since designers from Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio have already been..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Screens Feature by Anne Harris

From Baz to Batman

Costume designer Michael Wilkinson does it all from the Harvey Pekar schlump look in American Splendor to the fabulous Seventies fashions of American Hustle

"...Australian costume designer Michael Wilkinson will appear at the Harry Ransom Center..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Screens Feature by Amy Gentry

Stock Giftography

"...with that, but if you have a special graphic designer in your life, I have a few ideas for..."

Nov. 21, 2007 Design Post by Karen Barry

The Guilty

Single-location thriller travels deep into a killer mystery

"...by cinematographer Jasper Spanning, and subtle work from production designer Gustav Pontoppidan) strikes a perfect balance between the quiet..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

“Gail Chovan: No Trace of Now Will Remain” at Women & Their Work

The fashion designer-artist appropriates mourning rituals and their materials to make statements in this beautifully morbid show

"...Fashion designer and artist Gail Chovan appropriates all of these materials,..."

Feb. 23, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

Phantom Thread

Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson reunite for one last glamorous yet muscular tale

"...Phantom Thread, a 1950s-set domestic psychodrama about a couture designer and his lady muse. It looked an awful lot..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mother!

Jennifer Lawrence on the brink of madness

"...panache by director of photography Matthew Libatique and production designer Andrew Weisblum, as well as an entirely game cast..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour's psychedelic Western

"...a kaleidoscopic pastiche of society’s debris, thanks to production designer Brandon Tonner-Connolly. The frame is filled with all manner..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Personal Shopper

A ghost story exploring the ineffable

"...T-shirts, Maureen scoots around Paris on her motorbike, fetching designer fashions and Cartier jewelry for her celebrity employer (von..."

March 24, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Edina and Patsy hit the big screen with mixed results

"...age (no specific numbers, please!) who never met a designer label they shouldn’t wear (Lacroix!) or a current fad..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Snowpiercer

This English-language debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is a riveting sci-fi action film entirely set on a speeding train.

"...seize the engine, which is manned by the train’s designer and godhead Wilford. As Curtis and his ragged band..."

June 27, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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