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Costume Designers Guild Awards: Katie Holmes, Christian Bale, Geena Davis and Others Make the Clothes Call
By Emily Christianson, Special to Hollywood.com
With awards season in full swing, the Costume Designers Guild honored its own in Beverly Hills this week with help from some Hollywood A-listers.
In addition to costume design awards in seven film, TV and commercials categories, Katie Holmes presented the Swarovski President’s Award to producer Paula Wagner, Christian Bale gave his 3:10 to Yuma director James Mangold and producer Cathy Konrad the Distinguished Director/Producer Award, and Geena Davis handed the Lacoste Career Achievement award to costume designer Ruth Myers.
Anjelica Huston hosted, wearing a deep crimson gown designed for her by Bob Mackie especially for the occasion. "It’s going on tour after tonight, and then it’ll be sold through Clothesoffourback for charity," said the Oscar winning actress, who won’t attend the Academy Awards this Sunday. "I’m going to stay and bed and eat pizza!"
Presenter Kristin Chenoweth, in a sparkly Andrew Lippes mini and Nine West pumps, talked about favorite costumes--and keeping souvenirs. "When I did a TV movie of Annie for ABC several years ago and I played Lily St. Regis, there was a great coat that I danced in, with a fur collar. That collar might be missing," she said with a wink. She’s looking forward to filming Pushing Daisies’ second season in June, but right now is shooting Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, playing Witherspoon’s sister.
Mad Men stars January Jones, in vintage Giorgio Armani, Christina Hendricks, in Nicole Miller, and Vincent Kartheiser, in a rented tux proved they’re as stylish in this century as they are in the 1960s-set series. "I would wear most of it," Hendricks said of her sweater girl wardrobe, save for a red, white and blue ensemble she called "the Air France outfit. You’d never catch me wearing that!"
The actors agreed that the period accoutrements really helped them get into their roles in the Golden Globe-winning show. "Almost immediately when you put them on you feel like the character," said Hendricks, who also has a particular passion for the 1940s era in fashion. "It’s really feminine. I like the cinched waists and the little puffed sleeves. I think there’s something sort of sweet and naughty about it at the same time," she mused, adding that she’d also like to don western wear for a role. "I like the idea of having a corset and maybe some kind of cowboy hat."
Mad Men’s second season will take place two years later in 1962, and Jackie Kennedy’s style influence will be felt. Viewers may see Oleg Cassini-esque suits and pillbox hats on the women, but Hendricks suspects her sweater girl character Joan "won’t go for the boxy thing. Even if it’s a little old fashioned, she’ll stick with the tighter clothes."
Before the cast returns to work in late April, Jones will shoot a movie in London with Philip Seymour Hoffman called The Boat that Rocks, also set in the ‘60s. "It’s a true story about a pirate radio station on a boat off the English coastline," she described. She’s also designing necklaces and earrings for a signature jewelry line.
Presenter Gabrielle Anwar rocked an elegant Rozae Nichols gown, but admitted, "I’m a period kind of gal. I think I was born way too late." She loved wearing1500s regalia in The Tudors. ‘It was the first time I wore period garb that didn’t feel like it weighed 50 pounds. The corsetry had no bones in it. It looked painful but it wasn’t at all." She’ll return to contemporary costumes in season two of the USA series Burn Notice and iMurders, a contemporary thriller.
Also no stranger to heavy costumes, Journeyman’s Kevin McKidd, looking sharp in a Versace suit, was on hand to support his Rome costume designer April Ferry, who lost to Pushing Daisies’ Robert Blackman. "That costume weighed 30 pounds," recalled the British actor. His NBC series was canceled but he’ll appear in Made of Honor in May, opposite Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan. " I play the love interest who doesn’t get the girl in the end," he said.
Eduardo Castro won a CDG award for the second straight year for his work on Ugly Betty and third time overall. He spent the three-month break during the Writers Guild strike designing two futuristic superhero costumes for the movie Dragonball, and will return to Mode mode on Monday to start the first of five new episodes that will premiere Apr. 24. "I have no clue about what the directors or writers have in mind," he said. "There may be a musical down the line, that’s all I know."
Nominee Alexandra Byrne dressed Cate Blanchett for the second time in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and called her "a dream" to work with. "She knows clothes, she gets them, she knows how to move in a costume," said Byrne, asserting that "quite a lot of actors struggle with how to move and sit, and wear corsets if they haven’t done period before." Byrne lost to Sweeney Todd’s Colleen Atwood but will have another shot at the Academy Awards, her fourth nomination.
Eli Stone’s Natasha Henstridge dazzled in a low-cut black Collette Dinnigan gown selected by her personal stylist Deborah Ferguson, who won a CDG award for her the Capitol One TV commercial "Princess Kiss." "I finally got a stylist so I’m much better dressed now," laughed Henstridge. "Watch out!"
www.hollywood.com/feature/Costume_Designers_Guild_Awards_Katie_Holmes_Christian_Bale_Geena_Davis/5076868
By Emily Christianson, Special to Hollywood.com
With awards season in full swing, the Costume Designers Guild honored its own in Beverly Hills this week with help from some Hollywood A-listers.
In addition to costume design awards in seven film, TV and commercials categories, Katie Holmes presented the Swarovski President’s Award to producer Paula Wagner, Christian Bale gave his 3:10 to Yuma director James Mangold and producer Cathy Konrad the Distinguished Director/Producer Award, and Geena Davis handed the Lacoste Career Achievement award to costume designer Ruth Myers.
Anjelica Huston hosted, wearing a deep crimson gown designed for her by Bob Mackie especially for the occasion. "It’s going on tour after tonight, and then it’ll be sold through Clothesoffourback for charity," said the Oscar winning actress, who won’t attend the Academy Awards this Sunday. "I’m going to stay and bed and eat pizza!"
Presenter Kristin Chenoweth, in a sparkly Andrew Lippes mini and Nine West pumps, talked about favorite costumes--and keeping souvenirs. "When I did a TV movie of Annie for ABC several years ago and I played Lily St. Regis, there was a great coat that I danced in, with a fur collar. That collar might be missing," she said with a wink. She’s looking forward to filming Pushing Daisies’ second season in June, but right now is shooting Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, playing Witherspoon’s sister.
Mad Men stars January Jones, in vintage Giorgio Armani, Christina Hendricks, in Nicole Miller, and Vincent Kartheiser, in a rented tux proved they’re as stylish in this century as they are in the 1960s-set series. "I would wear most of it," Hendricks said of her sweater girl wardrobe, save for a red, white and blue ensemble she called "the Air France outfit. You’d never catch me wearing that!"
The actors agreed that the period accoutrements really helped them get into their roles in the Golden Globe-winning show. "Almost immediately when you put them on you feel like the character," said Hendricks, who also has a particular passion for the 1940s era in fashion. "It’s really feminine. I like the cinched waists and the little puffed sleeves. I think there’s something sort of sweet and naughty about it at the same time," she mused, adding that she’d also like to don western wear for a role. "I like the idea of having a corset and maybe some kind of cowboy hat."
Mad Men’s second season will take place two years later in 1962, and Jackie Kennedy’s style influence will be felt. Viewers may see Oleg Cassini-esque suits and pillbox hats on the women, but Hendricks suspects her sweater girl character Joan "won’t go for the boxy thing. Even if it’s a little old fashioned, she’ll stick with the tighter clothes."
Before the cast returns to work in late April, Jones will shoot a movie in London with Philip Seymour Hoffman called The Boat that Rocks, also set in the ‘60s. "It’s a true story about a pirate radio station on a boat off the English coastline," she described. She’s also designing necklaces and earrings for a signature jewelry line.
Presenter Gabrielle Anwar rocked an elegant Rozae Nichols gown, but admitted, "I’m a period kind of gal. I think I was born way too late." She loved wearing1500s regalia in The Tudors. ‘It was the first time I wore period garb that didn’t feel like it weighed 50 pounds. The corsetry had no bones in it. It looked painful but it wasn’t at all." She’ll return to contemporary costumes in season two of the USA series Burn Notice and iMurders, a contemporary thriller.
Also no stranger to heavy costumes, Journeyman’s Kevin McKidd, looking sharp in a Versace suit, was on hand to support his Rome costume designer April Ferry, who lost to Pushing Daisies’ Robert Blackman. "That costume weighed 30 pounds," recalled the British actor. His NBC series was canceled but he’ll appear in Made of Honor in May, opposite Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan. " I play the love interest who doesn’t get the girl in the end," he said.
Eduardo Castro won a CDG award for the second straight year for his work on Ugly Betty and third time overall. He spent the three-month break during the Writers Guild strike designing two futuristic superhero costumes for the movie Dragonball, and will return to Mode mode on Monday to start the first of five new episodes that will premiere Apr. 24. "I have no clue about what the directors or writers have in mind," he said. "There may be a musical down the line, that’s all I know."
Nominee Alexandra Byrne dressed Cate Blanchett for the second time in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and called her "a dream" to work with. "She knows clothes, she gets them, she knows how to move in a costume," said Byrne, asserting that "quite a lot of actors struggle with how to move and sit, and wear corsets if they haven’t done period before." Byrne lost to Sweeney Todd’s Colleen Atwood but will have another shot at the Academy Awards, her fourth nomination.
Eli Stone’s Natasha Henstridge dazzled in a low-cut black Collette Dinnigan gown selected by her personal stylist Deborah Ferguson, who won a CDG award for her the Capitol One TV commercial "Princess Kiss." "I finally got a stylist so I’m much better dressed now," laughed Henstridge. "Watch out!"
www.hollywood.com/feature/Costume_Designers_Guild_Awards_Katie_Holmes_Christian_Bale_Geena_Davis/5076868