THE COMPLETE BOOK OF OSCAR FASHION: Variety's 75 Years of Glamour on the Red Carpet
Reeve Chace, . . Reed Press, $29.95 (188pp) ISBN 978-1-59429-001-5
The day after the Academy Awards ceremony, movie fans are as abuzz about what the stars wore as about who won. Who can forget Cher looking like a seductive alien rooster in a skimpy Bob Mackie outfit with feathered headdress, or Bjork showing up with a swan wrapped around her neck? Photos of those appearances and hundreds more fill this fun book showcasing an array of Oscar fashion from the 1920s to this year's 75th anniversary party, focusing on women but also mentioning the tuxedo choices of a few men. Chace, a fashion and beauty reporter, organizes the looks by decade, throwing in subject-oriented features on, for example, women who attended the ceremony while visibly pregnant, or the repetition of certain looks then and now. There's an accessible, magazine-like sense to the book, as Chace displays no less than two photos (and as many as five) on each page, along with snappy captions (a shot of Melanie Griffith, star of
Reviewed on: 10/06/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 188 pages - 978-1-59764-184-5