#deborah nadoolman

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ORNELLA MUTI in costume for her role as Sofia Provolone in Oscar(1991)

Costume Designer: Deborah Landis

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Zamundan Tribal dance and costume.. Coming To America.. Costume by Deborah Nadoolman.. Choreography by Paula Abdul.

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Lisa McDowell (Sheri Headley) Pink wedding dress.. Coming To America (1988).. Costume by Deborah Nadoolman.

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Lisa McDowell (Sheri Headley) Pink wedding dress.. Coming To America (1988).. Costume by Deborah Nadoolman..  

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Dressed : a century of Hollywood costume design - By Deborah Nadoolman Landis (2007) - Lillian Gish

Dressed – A Century of Hollywood Costume Design By Deborah Nadoolman Landis Collins (Harper Collins Publishers) 2007 From the lavish productions of Hollywood’s Golden Age through the high-tech blockbusters of today, the most memorable movies all have one thing in common: they rely on the magical transformations rendered by the costume designer. Whether spectacular or […]

We were struck by how closely the newest Hollywood anecdotes about costume design mirror the oldest. The testimony by actors and designers at the end of this volume, in the twenty-first century, echo those at the very beginning of the twentieth. Silent-film star Lillian Gish would be all too familiar with the anxieties of present-day indie actresses. Today’s compressed production schedules parallel the earliest days of shotgun moviemaking, when actresses arrived at the set dressed to impress or were clothed from secondhand (now vintage) shops or rental house hampers. It’s irrelevant whether a costume is a manufactured or found object; it need only be right for the shop girl, the princess, the gangster, or the boy next door.

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VH1 was showing Coming To America before tonight's installment of Drag Race All Stars 2, and I was reminded that the gloriously off-the-charts-Eighties wedding dress that Deborah Nadoolman designed for Shari Headley was one of the greatest bridal gowns in cinematic history. Check out all that foofy goodness!

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Deborah Nadoolman Made Indiana Jones Into a Style Icon

She clothed Michael Jackson, the Blues Brothers, and most influentially, Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. And yet costume designer Deborah Nadoolman is still virtually anonymous.

Awesome article on a woman whom more fans need to know, and the characters she’s helped define:

“Handsome AF, tenured and tenacious, with more grit than unrinsed arugula and more reserve than Domaine de la Romanee Conti, Indiana Jones seemed cut from the broadcloth of the ideal American male. Here was a man who could deliver a compelling academic lecture, negotiate booby traps in a jungle, and handle a whip like a dominatrix. The entire film is an elaborate and very enjoyable pedestal to raise him to the heroic. But where does it start? With our hero crashing through the jungle in a linen shirt half undone and stained with sweat, a beat-up brown leather jacket in the hot hot heat, and on his head that the most mythic of hats, a snap-brim fedora. That’s our first vision of our hero, and it’s so complete it seems Indiana Jones wasn’t created or written. The films simply opened a window into a parallel world wherein he was already extant, fully realized, and fully clothed.”

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Karen Allen as Marion Ravenwood wearing a long white dotted tulle dress with flutter sleeves, bare back and v neckline (embellished with a fabric flower).

The costumes were designed by Deborah Nadoolman.