Iconic Red Hollywood Dresses

 The Red Dress: There are other red dresses and garments in this movie, but this heart-shaped halter neckline evening gown with a slit in the skirt is the highlight of the plot.  Just when we expected to see a Helen at low hours, this sensual red dress devised by costume designer Joanna Johnston demonstrates all the magic of the elixir of eternal youth.

 The Red Dress: Doing justice to the name of the protagonist of the film, this red satin dress named Red Satin is made up of a bodice and a matching Victorian skirt.  A design that, as revealed by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, is part of the more than 400 costumes that costume designers Catherine Martin (director’s wife) and Angus Strathie had to create to evoke “the voluptuous intoxicating world of Paris  of the XIX century ”.

 The red dress: without wanting to enter future events, we have already warned that red sequin dresses are one of the key pieces of the next autumn-winter 2020/21.  This one worn by matching Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in this 1950s movie is also characterized by its long sleeves, its vertiginous V-neckline and its deep side slit in the skirt topped with a beaded brooch.  A design that reached $ 250,000 at an auction held in Beverly Hills last November.

 The Red Dress: Signed by Alaïa and topped off with some Jimmy Choo shoes, this red cocktail mini dress stars in one of the most memorable scenes in the film.  An armed robbery that forces Cher to dirty her precious dress after a dialogue between two very different universes that is worth remembering.  “To get a dress from Alaïa I had to make so many calls,” recalls costume designer Mona May on Dazed. “My budget was not huge, so we used everything I could get for free, and Alaïa was very generous with the pieces,  he was a very collaborative designer. “

 The red dress: although most of the looks of the film were designed by the legendary Edith Head, who took an Oscar for her work, the dresses in which the protagonist poses in Paris were created by Hubert de Givenchy with whom Audrey  had a close friendship.  This red strapless neckline dress with which the actress goes down the famous Daru staircase of the Louvre with the statue of the winged Victory of Samothracia behind is one of them.

 The red dress: it is not the first time that costume designer Joanna Johnston worked with director Robert Zemeckis (Death suits you so well (1992) was another of her collaborations with a red dress as the protagonist) but this was the one she did  Johnston became one of the first costume designers to address animation and motion capture techniques in her work.  The result was the stunning red sequin dress with strapless neckline and sweetheart silhouette of the animated protagonist whose drawing was inspired by actresses Veronica Lake and Vikki Dougan.