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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorTCM and HBO Max’s new series “Follow the Thread” brings costume designers and fashion designers together as it examines the relationship between fashion and costume.Inspired by the Met’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s exhibition, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” the series include designers Sandy Powell, Mark Bridges, Isis Mussenden and Deborah Nadoolman Landis as the world of costume design and fashion design come together. The limited series covers a spectrum of films from 1954’s “Sabrina” to 1957’s “Funny Face” to “Annie Hall” (1977) through to “Crazy Rich Asians” showing how film influences culture and impact fashion.Speaking with Variety, Powell, Bridges, Mussenden and Nadoolman Landis discuss what drew them to the series, the biggest misconception about costume design and share their favorite transformations. Deborah Nadoolman Landis: I was a little ambivalent.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor North Hollywood’s United American Costume Company has been dressing Hollywood since 1977. The company counts costume designers Sandy Powell, Arianne Phillips and Ellen Mirojnick among its clients, and has provided outfits for “Yellowstone” as well as “American Horror Story.” But with the writers and actors on strike, the business is in danger. “I could survive probably five months, but I would be left with nothing,” says the company’s owner, Diana Foster.

After catapulting to fame a decade ago in Downton Abbey, fans were left shocked when Lily James revealed her drastic transformation as Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy. But despite the extreme overhaul, this isn’t the first time that the actress has won fans over with her movie makeovers.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThree decades after her start in show business, Sandy Powell has made such a mark with her work, that “costume designer” is often not needed as a prefix because people know the name. And if they don’t, they know the Brit artisan’s face and her fiery orange hair.

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe legendary Ann Roth is looking like a frontrunner for the costume design Oscar for her costumes for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”With over 130 film and television credits, Roth is set to make Oscar history beating out the late Christopher Plummer as the oldest nominee, should she land the nomination.Roth has worked with Meryl Streep, George C. Wolfe, Scott Rudin, Sidney Lumet, Neil Simon, Mike Nichols and Todd Black.

For costume designer Sandy Powell, perhaps the biggest highlight of working on The Glorias — the new feature film about Gloria Steinem at four stages of life — was being invited to meet the feminist icon at home in New York and peak inside her closet. “It was exciting to actually meeting Gloria and ask her questions about her life and her clothes.

Aisling Bea, Daisy Cooper and Barbara Broccoli are among the figures in the entertainment industry who will offer tips and guidance to aspiring female creatives.

Tilda Swinton poses with her daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne, inside the BFI Chairman’s Dinner held at Rosewood on Monday night (March 2) in London, England.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences was quick to point out on Jan. 13 as the Oscar nominations were announced, that “A record 62 women were nominated, almost one-third of this year’s nominees.” Twenty of those below-the-line nominations were for women and minorities, including Sandy Powell, who secured her 15th nomination for “The Irishman,” and “Jojo Rabbit” costume designer Mayes C.