Costume Designers Discuss Pay Inequality: ‘This Is About Feeling Devalued’

The Notebook’s costume designer was left in tears after Kobe Bryant’s wife referenced the dress Rachel McAdams wore in the film at the basketball star’s memorial on Monday.

costume designer, Karyn Wagner, is «honored» that her work brought joy to Vanessa Bryant.

In Vanessa Bryant’s emotional eulogy of her late husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna, she mentioned that the NBA legend had once gifted her with the physical notebook and Allie’s blue dress from 2004 film adaptation of The Notebook.

Lara Jean Song Covey has an incredible wardrobe! In Netflix's the leading lady, played by , rocks some incredible looks amid her romantic woes with Peter Kavinsky () and John Ambrose McClaren ().

When it came to his beloved wife, Kobe Bryant channeled one famous love story for their own.  On Monday, Vanessa Bryant took the microphone and spoke at a public memorial held for her late husband, who tragically died last month in a helicopter crash with their 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Bryant, and seven others.  Addressing the packed Staples Center and people watching around the world, the mother of four, who had been married to the basketball legend for nearly two decades before his

His two favorite girls! Benji Madden was feeling thankful for his wife, Cameron Diaz, and their 1-month-old baby girl, Raddix, and wanted to share his joy with the world.

The costume designer Sandy Powell spent this awards season armed with a bag of Sharpies, which she took with her everywhere. At the BAFTAs, in England, the Academy Awards, and the Vanity Fair Oscars Party, Powell—known for her work on The Favourite and The Irishman—carried a sack of pens, asking all her famous peers to sign the calico toile suit she wore to each event.

It's lonely at the top. 

Before film’s biggest night of the year, the stars hit the red carpet for fashion’s biggest annual event. While stars wore Chanel, Dior and Elie Saab to the Oscars, there was one outfit that stood out in particular; Sandy Powell’s cream suit.

A nod to the original DC comics and an eye toward a fresh take on the charming and crazy Harley Quinn and her fellow feminist vigilantes sets the tone for costume designer Erin Benach's work on Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)."This was more nerve-wracking than other films I have worked on, and I didn't come at it from a comic-superhero angle but more from a character-building angle," says the designer who incorporated glamour, comfort and style on steroids

In one of the final episodes of the second season of Hulu’s “Shrill,” Annie, played by Aidy Bryant, says, “It’s such a hunt to find cool clothes for fat women.”

Just ahead of Valentine’s Day, Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth Carter (the first black woman to win the honor last year for her work on Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster film Black Panther) will debut her very first fashion collection, in partnership with H&M, on Thursday, Feb.

Laika’s latest stop-motion feature, “Missing Link,” recently won a Golden Globe for animated film, and picked up an Oscar nomination as well. It’s the story of late Victorian-era Sir Lionel (voiced by Hugh Jackman), who discovers a creature resembling a yeti in the Pacific Northwest (Zach Galifianakis).

By Matt Grobar

Last night, the Costume Designers Guild had their say in the Oscar race. The 22nd annual CDG Awards were held and with only two of the five Academy Award nominees in the running here, all eyes were on this group to see if that might tell us anything. Well, that might just have happened, but not necessarily in the way that we were expecting. Did the race zig instead of zag? Read on for more to find out…

Costume designers are no strangers to making a statement, which they accomplished once more in their calls for pay parity at the Costume Designers Guild Awards on Tuesday night.Attendees at the 22nd annual ceremony were greeted, upon entry, with paddles on their seats calling for "Pay Equity Now." In a speech during the ceremony, Guild president Salvador Perez added, "The issue of pay equality is something we know everyone in this room supports.

At the 22nd annual Costume Designers Guild Awards on Tuesday evening, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, host Mindy Kaling wore a special dress custom-designed for her by CDG president Salvador Pérez Jr., The Hollywood Reporterhas exclusively learned."It’s the most glamorous night of awards season; Oscars schmoscars!" Pérez told THR on Tuesday.

The 22nd Costume Designers Guild Awards kicked off Tuesday at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, honoring the best in film, television and short-form costume design.