Hollywood Sketchbook

Deborah Nadoolman Landis is the David C. Copley Chair and the Founding Director of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. She is an Academy Award-nominated costume designer of Coming to America (1988) and many other films, including Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' (1983). Professor Landis served as a two-term president of the Costume Designer's Guild, Local 892, of which she has been a member for more than thirty-five years. She is the author of Screencraft/Costume Design (2003), 50 Designers/50 Costumes: Concept to Character (2004), Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design (2007), FilmCraft/Costume Design (2012), and Hollywood Costume (2012). Landis has a Ph.D. in the history of design from the Royal College of Art, London.

The very first book on the subject of costume illustration for the movies, Hollywood Sketchbook , contains over 500 previously unpublished drawings. More than just pretty pictures, each drawing provides a blueprint for the creation of a costume and a character. This gorgeous volume affords the viewer a rare peek inside the portfolios of a century of costume designers and illustrators including Theadora Van Runkle (Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather: Part II), Piero Tosi (The Leopard, Death in Venice), and Travis Banton (Scarlet Empress, Blonde Venus). Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis follows-up her acclaimed Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design , to showcase the artistry of costume illustrators and designers from silent film to today's blockbusters.

More than 1,000 costume illustrations, many never before seen by the general public, tell the story of costume design from the birth of film to the present day, in Deborah Nadoolman Landis's stunning followup to her acclaimed expose, Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design. In our minds, who is Marilyn Monroe without the billowing white dress of The Seven Year Itch, or Harrison Ford without his fedora and bullwhip? Yet before a movie costume can transform an actors into an icon, it exists first in the mind of the costume designer, who must render illustration after illustration, bringing the characters to life with watercolor, paint, and pencil before committing to one stitch or cut of fabric-and before the costumes that define cinema's greatest stars sear themselves into our memories forever. In Hollywood Sketchbook: A Century of Costume Illustration,author and Academy Award-nominated costume design expert Deborah Nadoolman Landis opens the doors to the dynamic world of costume illustration, revealing the world's most sumptuous illustrations, behind-the-scenes stories of the most beloved costumes of all time, and the deft hands, sweeping visions, and creative intuitions that brought them to life.