Academy Award-winning British costume designer Sandy Powell OBE will be visiting the Getty Center on April 27th to discuss photography, Victorian fashion, and costume concepts from her films, including The Young Victoria (2010). Powell will be joined in conversation with Professor Deborah Nadoolman Landis, director of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design at UCLA. They will discuss the role of photographs and other visual sources in costume design, with particular reference to A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography, currently on view at the Getty Museum.
Powell attended St. Martin’s School of Art in London and began working in films on Edward II in 1991. Her other credits include Orlando, The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Rob Roy, Shakespeare in Love, Gangs of New York, Far From Heaven, The Departed, and The Other Boleyn Girl. She has been nominated for an Academy Award ten times and has walked away with the statuette three times for Shakespeare in Love (1999), The Aviator (2005), and The Young Victoria (2010).
Designing Victoria: Visual Sources for Historical Costume
Date: Sunday, April 27th. Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center Admission: Free; reservations recommended. Call (310) 440-7300 or www.getty.edu.
