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Palace Costume
Palace Costume: Inside Hollywood's Best Kept Fashion Secret | Mimi Haddon
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Palace Costume is a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Palace Costume & Prop Co., an exclusive Los Angeles film-industry haven of dresses, gowns, garments, accessories, props, and jewelry featured in countless movies for more than fifty years. Curated for the exclusive benefit of costumers, stylists, and designers, Palace Costume & Prop Co. has lent authenticity and panache to classic films such as Chinatown, The Godfather, Boogie Nights, Austin Powers, The Big Lebowski, and Coming to America, to name but a few. Oscar-winning costume designers such as Mark Bridges, Sandy Powell, and Ruth Carter have been known to peruse the archive for inspiration and specific pieces for their films. Interviews with several Academy Award-nominated costume designers, including Shirley Kurata of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and Mary Zophres of True Grit, La La Land, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Babylon, are featured in the book. Palace Costume has been the vision of Melody Barnette, whose journey in retro clothing is movie-worthy itself. Her first boutique in Los Angeles in the early 1970s attracted the likes of Diana Ross and Joni Mitchell and many other rock-and-rollers from the era. This inspired her to transition the business into a to-the-trade-only rental service enabling her to hold onto and care for these vintage gems. Fifty years later, her 30,000-square-foot trove of over half a million pieces is a beloved and legendary collection featured for the first time in Palace Costume. LA-based photographer Mimi Haddon has been carefully curating and artfully photographing the vintage treasures at Palace Costume for many years. Over 300 of her stunning, stylized, and saturated images are featured in this visually comprehensive and delightful celebration of this one-of-a-kind archive. This inspirational look-book is sure to delight a wide audience, including vintage-clothing enthusiasts, fashionistas, costume designers, stylists, and cinephiles.
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oddandbookish
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This was such a gorgeous book!

This book explores Palace Costume, a costume rental house that specializes in vintage clothes. The first part featured interviews with the founder and numerous costume designers. The interviews were very insightful and were a fun way to tell the history of the Palace Costume. The rest of the book showed pictures of the clothes.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/review-palace-costume/

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This is the last tracker that I‘m posting for tonight. I‘m having a hard time keeping up with these trackers. Now, I‘m thinking that I might get on Canva and make my own trackers and make sure the publication dates are in order or just use my reading tracker that I already have and just track the ARCs I need to read every month.

kelli7990 The publication dates are out of order on these trackers because I start off putting them in order and then I realize when I start looking at the tracker that I forgot to add some ARCs that I need to read so that‘s why the dates are out of order but it‘s confusing me. Obviously, I need a better system than this because I don‘t think this is working for me and I keep forgetting to add new ARCs to the trackers that I have to read. 1mo
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kelli7990
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For #weeklyfavorites, I‘m sharing this nonfiction book from Netgalley that I read as a Read Now book. It‘s being published on September 10. It‘s a book about fashion. It‘s about a costume store in Los Angeles. I enjoyed it.

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kelli7990
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Thank you Chronicle Books & Netgalley for the digital ARC! I don‘t usually follow fashion but I really enjoyed reading this book and looking at the pictures of the fashion. I thought it was very interesting.

On Sale: 9/9/24

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